Weird Electrical Gremlins
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:33 pm
Soooo another stupid question from me
I reinstalled a radio into my SPG so I could actually listen to music again, having a similar issue to what I had experienced before.
Symptoms:
1) Radio only outputs to the LF speaker unless....
2) When turning the car off and when the key is in the very first position the RF and LR/RR speakers kick on
3) When #2 happens the radio will stay on until I cycle through the key positions again and eventually shut off.
4) When this happened before hitting the turn signal or brake lights would clear something up and the other speakers would work. When doing #3 now I can see the VDO gauges flash a bit when I hit the turn signals as if there is some errant power making there way around (gauges are powered by radio harness)
My thoughts are a bad ground somewhere, or maybe even something as random as a bad bulb somewhere but figured I'd see if anyone had any wild ideas before I try anything stupid. Only other thing I can think of is if I somehow switched the constant and switched 12v but I can't reason why/how that would work, and why the LF speaker still works regardless
I reinstalled a radio into my SPG so I could actually listen to music again, having a similar issue to what I had experienced before.
Symptoms:
1) Radio only outputs to the LF speaker unless....
2) When turning the car off and when the key is in the very first position the RF and LR/RR speakers kick on
3) When #2 happens the radio will stay on until I cycle through the key positions again and eventually shut off.
4) When this happened before hitting the turn signal or brake lights would clear something up and the other speakers would work. When doing #3 now I can see the VDO gauges flash a bit when I hit the turn signals as if there is some errant power making there way around (gauges are powered by radio harness)
My thoughts are a bad ground somewhere, or maybe even something as random as a bad bulb somewhere but figured I'd see if anyone had any wild ideas before I try anything stupid. Only other thing I can think of is if I somehow switched the constant and switched 12v but I can't reason why/how that would work, and why the LF speaker still works regardless