Hi everyone,
About two years ago I put in an aftermarket CD player in my '01 Mustang. Never had any issues with it. About 6 to 8 months ago, when driving my battery light would come on when driving. Sometimes it may last a second or 20. Sometimes I can drive 200 miles and it comes on once or twice, other times I can go 5 miles and it's nonstop. I've had the alternator checked repeatedly and that is not the issue. I've checked all grounds, I have the CD player, amp in the trunk, and a 410W inverter in the passenger seat. All the grounds appeared fine.
I decided to to yank the CD player out, and properly attach all the wires. This time, heatshrink them, tape, the whole 9 yards. Last time I just crimped them together in a connecting device. Never had any fuses blown, or anything.
I did all that yesterday, last night I went to drive to a friends house and I had no dash lights. I assumed it was something I did earlier with the CD player. This morning, checked the fuse and it was blown. It was a really old fuse so I thought maybe it was just age. Put in a replacement mini 5A fuse and boom blown. I yanked out the CD player, throughly checked all the wires, checked the wires on the inverter, checked behind the dash (of what I could see) underneath the dash on both the driver and passenger side and I did not see any wire that looked damaged. Obviously common sense says it was something to do with rewiring the CD player, which apparently actually wiring professionally this time causes a major fuse to blow.
And I put everything back in, reattached the battery connections, crawled under, put in a 10A fuse instead, put the key in and turned to the battery and everything fine. I pulled the headlight/dash switch and boom it blew with a bright flash. So can anyone point into the direction on what I might be doing wrong? None of the wires look compromised and I can't drive at night now. Also I had three left over wires from the harness, orange and orange with a thin black stripe that I didn't use before, and a black one with a thin white stripe, that I think I didn't use before. Any suggestions?
And apologies for the long drawn out post.
About two years ago I put in an aftermarket CD player in my '01 Mustang. Never had any issues with it. About 6 to 8 months ago, when driving my battery light would come on when driving. Sometimes it may last a second or 20. Sometimes I can drive 200 miles and it comes on once or twice, other times I can go 5 miles and it's nonstop. I've had the alternator checked repeatedly and that is not the issue. I've checked all grounds, I have the CD player, amp in the trunk, and a 410W inverter in the passenger seat. All the grounds appeared fine.
I decided to to yank the CD player out, and properly attach all the wires. This time, heatshrink them, tape, the whole 9 yards. Last time I just crimped them together in a connecting device. Never had any fuses blown, or anything.
I did all that yesterday, last night I went to drive to a friends house and I had no dash lights. I assumed it was something I did earlier with the CD player. This morning, checked the fuse and it was blown. It was a really old fuse so I thought maybe it was just age. Put in a replacement mini 5A fuse and boom blown. I yanked out the CD player, throughly checked all the wires, checked the wires on the inverter, checked behind the dash (of what I could see) underneath the dash on both the driver and passenger side and I did not see any wire that looked damaged. Obviously common sense says it was something to do with rewiring the CD player, which apparently actually wiring professionally this time causes a major fuse to blow.
And I put everything back in, reattached the battery connections, crawled under, put in a 10A fuse instead, put the key in and turned to the battery and everything fine. I pulled the headlight/dash switch and boom it blew with a bright flash. So can anyone point into the direction on what I might be doing wrong? None of the wires look compromised and I can't drive at night now. Also I had three left over wires from the harness, orange and orange with a thin black stripe that I didn't use before, and a black one with a thin white stripe, that I think I didn't use before. Any suggestions?
And apologies for the long drawn out post.