Ok My clock will stop displaying time if I: Open the doors or try to turn on the interior lights(btw they will NOT light up) The clock also resets to 1:00 every time I turn off the car. I am thinking some wires are getting crossed or I have some cold solder joints that need to be fixed or some combo of those two.

If you all could help me with ideas on things to check I would appreciate it.


Santiago

 

the clock might have a battery that keeps the clock going when the car is off, might be dead, not sure if the clock is always powered by the car battery or not though

 

I get this too - opening the doors or something related drops the 'always on 12V' line to my stereo, making it lose all its settings which frustrates me greatly.

It isn't a simple matter of the door switch, however, since it never exhibits the behaviour when i am in the car trying to fix it.

Its like there is a capacitor somewhere that powers the clock and is also tied to the 12V 'always on line' that works for a while then cuts out, or is intermittent when the car is running, due to vibration.

Actually, now that I wirte this, it sounds like it is almost certainly cold-solder joints.

 

Well I know its not idiot light cluster joints. I have completely re-done those. I was thinking on the ECU or something.

Thanks for the comments though.

 

Check your CPU, that sounds a lot like the cold soldier joints in the cpu. the cpu controls all that crap... lights, buzzers, idiot cluster, etc....

 

Other than going inthere and re-soldreing everything dose anyone have a write-up?

 

check the fuse it is the 7.5 amp fuse that is in the middle of the fuse box. when you look at it it is the one that is sticking out in the middle row. I had that problem and that fixed ... hm... cd -player working ok?

 

CD what?

 

blown room fuse