I finished getting my RX out of storage yesterday and she runs awesome. No complaints there.

I spent almost 8 hrs rewiring my stereo and added my final amp. I will have some pics posted later this week or over the weekend of my finished setup.

I drove 3 miles down the road and then I could smell what I thought was electrical wires burning (that burnt insulation smell). Before I could come to a stop on the side of the road, my radio just quit and my clock turned off.

Now, I have no juice to the radio, I am going to hook up some LEDs to the positive and ground wire to make sure the head unit didn't fry, but that shouldn't kill both the in-dash EQ and the clock, the head unit should quit on its own.

I also lost interior electrical lighting. No hatch light. No dome lights or entry light. The sunroof still has power as does all the rest of the dummy lights, turn signals, etc.

I have checked the 7.5A fuse for interior lights. Good. I also checked the 20A fuse for "Audio" and it is also good.

I pulled the deck out and no visibly burnt wires. The only other place I can think of that had wires laying around was under my storage bins the previous owner decided to cut that lighting to the bins when he did some custom work. I never bothered to re-hook it up.

Anyone know how the interior lights and radio are wired together? I think I read the wiring schematic correct and found the power wire running to the radio and then to the clock before ground. But I could be wrong.

Thanks guys.


EDIT: After further fuse checking, I had mistaken the ILLUM fuse for the ROOM fuse. The room was blown. After putting in a new one, the head unit started to smoke and blew the new fuse as well. The Head Unit is toasty.

Thus ending my adventures.

 

led's?......just get a multimeter...

 

Blow any fuses? especially the ILLUM one...probably hooked up a wire to what you THOUGHT was a ground at the time.

 

Checked the ILLUM fuse. It was good. But, that made me re-count and realize I hadn't checked the room fuse b/c it had a 10A fuse in it, not a 7.5A like it is supposed to.

The head unit is smoked. Time for a new Kenwood unit that I have been looking at recently.

Thanks for the help guys.