Just recently finished installing my CD player, but apparently I screwed up somewhere along the line.
Whenever my headlights or taillights come on (from hitting the breaks or switching them on) my cd player stops playing sound. The display looks normal, as if it's still playing, but my speakers are silent.
Any guesses? 97 Corolla with a Panasonic DEH-1500. Thanks.
Replies (12)
carfreak on 08/28/2003 06:18:19
Did you use a wiring harness or did you cut and try to match your wires? There is a short in your system and it would seem like something is either grounding out against the deck or your speaker wiring when the lights are on. Try pulling out the deck still hooked up and then turn the lights on. If it shuts down have fun... if not then start looking for a wire that may be split or broke. You also might just run all new wiring as it will cut your troubleshooting down. You will have to mess in the fuse box for a switched power wire and a constant power the ground is easy just run a wire to the bare floor and use a self taping screw. The speaker wire is kind of a pain to hide but it might be worth it all. But if there is somthing shorting out against your deck then it will not help to rewire it . Do not do anything untill one of the pros answer your question as I am most often wrong .
Swez on 08/28/2003 06:38:02
It seems that you may have the ILL/ and contant power wires in the wrong locations. ILL is there to provice dimming th display for night driving with lights and dash system deployed.
Also, since you have an aftermarkey HU now, need to ground your HU to the floor pan. The wire harness ground may not be adequate here to keep all you gear running on that stock ground location.
Swez
carfreak on 08/28/2003 06:48:11
see I told ya i didn't know what I was talking about
bahooboris on 08/28/2003 17:25:48
thanks for your help. carfreak don't sweat it, i'm a dumbass myself or i wouldn't be asking for help lol
my friend did it for me, he cut the harness out (dumbass!!) and started connecting wires, all in the wrong places. but i found a diagram online and figured out how they're supposed to go and took care of that.
anyhoot, i fixed my first problem, i had something hooked up backwards. my only problem now is that it basically forgets everything when i take the key out. it doesn't turn on automatically, the clock resets, my radio presets are erased, audio settings.. all gone.
would regrounding it help?? or does somebody see something obviously wrong?
carfreak on 08/28/2003 18:38:37
Nope I have this one
You need to go to your fuse box and find a constant power supply (when the key is off you have power) . Use a test light if thats all you have then run a new wire from the fuse box to the deck hook it up to the power wire ( should be yellow) then you should be fine. BUT YOU MUST TAPE OFF OR CAP THE WIRES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN USED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or esles fire or bad stuff with fuses and computers and ... You get the point. Your freind and you hooked up the wire wrong
Yellow constant power
Red switched power(turns off with the key)
Black Ground ( to the floor pan )
Blue amp
Blue/white stripe power antanna
orange / Dimmer
carfreak on 08/28/2003 18:47:09
Ohh and next time do not cut the harness the install took you hours I am guessing and with a harness you can buy from a install shop you match the colors on your deck to the colors on the harness you bought and then it ... just plugs in to the factory harness no searching for wires trying to figure out where the speaker wires are / go that simple NEVER CUT harnesses. WIth the harness it would have taken mabey 15 -30 mins and thats if you are color blind. ohh well as long as it works it is still a job done well Make sure you do not have any wires floating around in your dash. cant stress that to much smoke rolling out of your dash is never a good thing
bahooboris on 08/28/2003 21:49:20
i've capped off the extra wires. believe me, i will never let my jackass friend cut the plug off ever, ever again, and yes it took me some time :] and it would have been much easier if the colors had any scheme to them all. believe me they weren't coded as you described... yellow red and black weren't the big 3, hell lime green and a darker green didn't even go together. toyota made the most confused set of colors they possibly could.
but anyhow.. i'd have to bring a whole new wire in??
i'm not familiar with this stuff very much so could you elaborate for me, or describe any other ways to do it??
carfreak on 08/28/2003 23:00:19
run a fused link from the batt to the deck
run a new wire from fuse box (they make a plug that you crimp a wire in and it plugs right to the back of the box)
Use a test light and find the constant power wire from you old deck in the dash (make sure the power is off when you do it or you will not find the right wire )
Live with your deck reseting its self
You could also find a constant in the fuse box pull the fuse and strip a wire lay the wire in the slot of one of the blades and go that way ( not the right way If you do it right it will work fine with no probs but still not right way to do it)
That is your options that I know about
Let the golds answer the question as they might know more than I do about this and it would be the right way do it .
Good luck and let me know what you decide to do , kind of interested on your progress
bahooboris on 08/29/2003 19:38:14
ah wow, finally fixed. i don't think i've ever put so much effort into something in my life lol
it ended up being a few backwards wires and some other stuff hooked up wrong, but i think i finally got it. the whole process has taken well over a week, and i'm never letting anybody else touch my wiring again.
much thanks!
carfreak on 08/31/2003 18:45:29
Well glad I could finaly help someone else Witch of the three choices did you do ? Or did you find the right wire ?
carfreak on 08/31/2003 18:46:30
it is satisfiying when you get something to work right and you feel lt was worth the effort
ttocs on 09/1/2003 00:16:04
I started the same way... Unfortunatly I know that wiring, re-wiring, and re-wiring makes for an ugly mess. Make sure that everything is insulated properly, and wire tied properly. What kind of connectors did you use?
Whenever my headlights or taillights come on (from hitting the breaks or switching them on) my cd player stops playing sound. The display looks normal, as if it's still playing, but my speakers are silent.
Any guesses? 97 Corolla with a Panasonic DEH-1500. Thanks.
Replies (12)
carfreak on 08/28/2003 06:18:19
Did you use a wiring harness or did you cut and try to match your wires? There is a short in your system and it would seem like something is either grounding out against the deck or your speaker wiring when the lights are on. Try pulling out the deck still hooked up and then turn the lights on. If it shuts down have fun... if not then start looking for a wire that may be split or broke. You also might just run all new wiring as it will cut your troubleshooting down. You will have to mess in the fuse box for a switched power wire and a constant power the ground is easy just run a wire to the bare floor and use a self taping screw. The speaker wire is kind of a pain to hide but it might be worth it all. But if there is somthing shorting out against your deck then it will not help to rewire it . Do not do anything untill one of the pros answer your question as I am most often wrong .
Swez on 08/28/2003 06:38:02
It seems that you may have the ILL/ and contant power wires in the wrong locations. ILL is there to provice dimming th display for night driving with lights and dash system deployed.
Also, since you have an aftermarkey HU now, need to ground your HU to the floor pan. The wire harness ground may not be adequate here to keep all you gear running on that stock ground location.
Swez
carfreak on 08/28/2003 06:48:11
see I told ya i didn't know what I was talking about
bahooboris on 08/28/2003 17:25:48
thanks for your help. carfreak don't sweat it, i'm a dumbass myself or i wouldn't be asking for help lol
my friend did it for me, he cut the harness out (dumbass!!) and started connecting wires, all in the wrong places. but i found a diagram online and figured out how they're supposed to go and took care of that.
anyhoot, i fixed my first problem, i had something hooked up backwards. my only problem now is that it basically forgets everything when i take the key out. it doesn't turn on automatically, the clock resets, my radio presets are erased, audio settings.. all gone.
would regrounding it help?? or does somebody see something obviously wrong?
carfreak on 08/28/2003 18:38:37
Nope I have this one
You need to go to your fuse box and find a constant power supply (when the key is off you have power) . Use a test light if thats all you have then run a new wire from the fuse box to the deck hook it up to the power wire ( should be yellow) then you should be fine. BUT YOU MUST TAPE OFF OR CAP THE WIRES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN USED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or esles fire or bad stuff with fuses and computers and ... You get the point. Your freind and you hooked up the wire wrong
Yellow constant power
Red switched power(turns off with the key)
Black Ground ( to the floor pan )
Blue amp
Blue/white stripe power antanna
orange / Dimmer
carfreak on 08/28/2003 18:47:09
Ohh and next time do not cut the harness the install took you hours I am guessing and with a harness you can buy from a install shop you match the colors on your deck to the colors on the harness you bought and then it ... just plugs in to the factory harness no searching for wires trying to figure out where the speaker wires are / go that simple NEVER CUT harnesses. WIth the harness it would have taken mabey 15 -30 mins and thats if you are color blind. ohh well as long as it works it is still a job done well Make sure you do not have any wires floating around in your dash. cant stress that to much smoke rolling out of your dash is never a good thing
bahooboris on 08/28/2003 21:49:20
i've capped off the extra wires. believe me, i will never let my jackass friend cut the plug off ever, ever again, and yes it took me some time :] and it would have been much easier if the colors had any scheme to them all. believe me they weren't coded as you described... yellow red and black weren't the big 3, hell lime green and a darker green didn't even go together. toyota made the most confused set of colors they possibly could.
but anyhow.. i'd have to bring a whole new wire in??
i'm not familiar with this stuff very much so could you elaborate for me, or describe any other ways to do it??
carfreak on 08/28/2003 23:00:19
run a fused link from the batt to the deck
run a new wire from fuse box (they make a plug that you crimp a wire in and it plugs right to the back of the box)
Use a test light and find the constant power wire from you old deck in the dash (make sure the power is off when you do it or you will not find the right wire )
Live with your deck reseting its self
You could also find a constant in the fuse box pull the fuse and strip a wire lay the wire in the slot of one of the blades and go that way ( not the right way If you do it right it will work fine with no probs but still not right way to do it)
That is your options that I know about
Let the golds answer the question as they might know more than I do about this and it would be the right way do it .
Good luck and let me know what you decide to do , kind of interested on your progress
bahooboris on 08/29/2003 19:38:14
ah wow, finally fixed. i don't think i've ever put so much effort into something in my life lol
it ended up being a few backwards wires and some other stuff hooked up wrong, but i think i finally got it. the whole process has taken well over a week, and i'm never letting anybody else touch my wiring again.
much thanks!
carfreak on 08/31/2003 18:45:29
Well glad I could finaly help someone else Witch of the three choices did you do ? Or did you find the right wire ?
carfreak on 08/31/2003 18:46:30
it is satisfiying when you get something to work right and you feel lt was worth the effort
ttocs on 09/1/2003 00:16:04
I started the same way... Unfortunatly I know that wiring, re-wiring, and re-wiring makes for an ugly mess. Make sure that everything is insulated properly, and wire tied properly. What kind of connectors did you use?
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