Alternate Power Source...?

[EvillE423]

Okay, a while back when I hooked up my fogs, I shorted something out and my cd player quit working. It just wouldn't power up. I've got it in my other car at the moment and it works like brand new. So I know its not that. What I'm curious about is, is there a way to run new wires, (power, ground, batt. etc.) to the reciever and get it to work again. I have transfered everything over to my other car and it all works great, so I know that it's not the equipment, just the wiring in my 240. The 240 is just my dd and I want to be able to listen to the radio in it. I know someone out there has an answer for my, my system was used maybe a month before this happend and it rarely gets used. I want to be able to hear it again! So please help me out.

[EvillE423]

Anyone?

[the converted]

You can run wires from the ignition harness to the stereo, make sure you use fuses though. If you have removed the foglights or fixed the problem I would just figure out why the factory wires aren't working.

[ShaunakaRichard]

I would look at your fuses. If you have no power going to your stereo, got to be a fuse somewhere. Since it happened when you hooked up your fog lights, you might have overloaded the circuit and blown a fuse. And yes you can run new wires if you want. Personally I ran higher gauge wire, well technically lower gauge wire, which means thicker, for my stereo. Stock wiring is fine for the stock stereo but its always a good idea to run better wire if you get a good deck, especially one that is self amped. Not to mention it is nice to have your stereo on a separate circuit that way you never run into the problems you have now. So check your fuses because its got to be one of them. But if you want to run separate wires, its easy to do, but as ..the converted.. said, don't forget to fuse them!

[EvillE423]

I checked all the fuses when it happend. I even looked at the ones under the hood. But they all were in good shape. Read this and see if you think it has anything to do with it. zerothread/288545

[the converted]

From what I can tell from an FSM that is your blower relay. That shouldn't have anything to do with power to the stereo system at all. It's possible you burnt out a fusible link or one of the underhood relays as well when you did that. If you can go through your car and double check that everything works, make a list of what dosen't and maybe we can figure out what is wrong.

Also it looks like you have a bit of other aftermarket wiring in your car. Is everything to do with that stuff working as well?

[the converted]

After digging through the wiring diagrams for your car signs are pointing to one or more bad under-hood relays. You need to check accessory 1 and 2 and ignition relays under the hood. Chances are that one of those are bad and there's more than just your stereo that's not working.

[EvillE423]

The stuff that quit working when this happend is: Seatbelts - car has to be on for them to work. If I turn the car off before I open the door, they don't move. Clock in the instrument cluster, car has to be on for it to work also, always resets itself to 1:00. When I open either door, it quits working and when I close the door back, its reset back to 1:00 - only when the car is running. Interior light quit working too. That's all that messed up. Any clue at all? Oh yeah, and as of right now, I don't have any aftermarket wiring in the car. At the time this happend there was an amp, two subs, and two tweeters. The amp would cut out occasionally but it is a little underpowered for the subs, and I thought that was all that it was. When I would turn the reciever off for a few minutes, it wouldn't do it anymore for a little while. Would this have anything to do with it? What I can't figure out is I had all the wiring ran from and old set of fogs that I had hooked up and I just used that, I didn't run any new wires at all. When the old ones were hooked up I had no problems at all, I've also had a system in it for about 2 years up until this happend.

[the converted]

Defiantly sounds like an accessory relay. I'll do some more digging and see what I can come up with but check those in the mean time.

[EvillE423]

Defiantly sounds like an accessory relay. I'll do some more digging and see what I can come up with but check those in the mean time.

I'll do that, thanks a lot man for your time and patience.

[the converted]

No problem man, I just hate half *** fixes if it can be avoided.

[the converted]

So your situation is quite odd. About the only thing that makes sense for it to be is there are some crimped connections behind the fuse box. I'd check those and possibly one of those is melted out. If there's nothing there and all the relays are in good shape I don't know what it could be.

[EvillE423]

Okay, I'll take a look and see whats going on behind it. For the time being I've got it rewired which is fine, but would rather use the orignal wiring. Thanks for all your time and patience, I really appreciate it.