I am having a weird problem, and hopefully, somebody has seen this before.

My Alpine radio, has been working since I bough this car, second hand, 3 years ago, and this week, it stopped working. My wife tells me that she hit a bump, and that was that. No more radio.

I looked into the fuse box, and noticed that the "Audio" fuse was blown. I replaced it with another 10 A fuse, and the radio still did not work, so, I got to the radio, unpluged it, and could not find 12V on the power. Worse yet, when measuring, the reading on the digital meter, I got 0.00 V, but could see that the + and - signs were flickering. To me, that means a short :-( I took the key out, put the ohmeter, and touched the power and ground, and found no resistance :-( There is a short somewhere.

Now, for the weird stuff. I followed the harness, moved it a bit, but could not take the panel under the driver's seat, to try to access the harness going to the fuse box. DOES ANYONE KNOW how I get that out ? I took the two screws out, and tugged on it, and it was not coming out, so, I do not want to break it.

In any case, I looked at the Audio fuse again, and noticed that it was blown. Maybe from the last time I tried to get the radio to work. I put a new fuse, and voila, the radio is working again.

GREAT. Now, I take a little drive, and 5 minutes into my drive, the radio goes out, and you guess it, the fuse is blown again.

I do not think it is the radio, as I tried another radio, and it did not work either, but I did not leave it there. I am having some issues with my head lights, etc. I was wondering if this harness, somehow, feeds the head lights also. They are not out, but I am wondering if I could have a short effecting something on the Audio harness, that could explain this short !!!!

Any help will be great appreciated it.

Cheers,

Henrique

 

Just looked on alldata. I don't know if this is right, but it shows you gotta remove the airbag on the wheel, remove the wheel, remove the trim around the column, then remove two screws on the bottom of the panel and two nuts on the top of the panel, covered by the column trim.

It sure seems like alot to go thru to just remove the panel below the wheel.

Your issue does sond like a pinched hot lead. You might want to see if you can feed a wire to the fuse panel, then since you can get to the wire on the back of the radio, snip the original and replace it with the new wire. If alldata is right, this would seem so much easier.