stereo problems..

[briinh]

I wanted to put in an indash mp3 player, i hooked up all the wires...white/white, black with black red with red..etc....but it wont turn on....the yellow is battery constant, and the red is +12v....why wont it turn on, its not that hard to hook up a cd player..but is there anything i can do to make it turn on?...i've tried my brother in laws mp3 player and his wont turn on either...and his is all wired up just needs to be naped to the harnes....

[accordztech]

fuses.

there is a fuse in the car in the fuse pannel and there is one in the engine bay.

[briinh]

i'll try it out, and i'll post back to tell everyone what went down

[ckyskater733]

double check the wires maybe? with the wires you didnt use, tape them off so they dont touch each other. this is on your accord right? if not, the car may have an external amplifier.

[briinh]

i checked the fuses, and a fuse in the car near the gas pedal was blown, and also a fuse in the engine bay was blown, so i changed them both. The wires are all set, taped off and none are touching, everything is hooked up properly. Is there anyway the cd player could have blown while the fuses were already blown? does anyone have any other ideas?

thanks alot

[Pajarito]

hey man i just had the same problem with mine wat i did is the yellow wire that is the constant might be another name to it. but wat i did is there was already a inline fuse on the so i added a extra wire from there and ran it to the battery well the positive side of the battery and it works fine just make sure the is a inline fuse and you jump off of the constant let me know how it works out

[accordztech]

does ur clock turn on?

check the fuses again to see if they blew again, if they did then u got something wrong in the wiring.

if u want to check the deck plug it into another car

usually u will smell a faint weird burnt smell if u fried it.

id double check

yellow powr
red ign
blk ground.

always have that ground in....if u want to test if u blew a ignition line then tap the red to yellow temporary and if it turns on then u kno ur ignition line may be screwd.

but do check other things.

[briinh]

the cd player isn't fried, it doesn't smell, the clock works, and i also think the wires are allset too...the colors all match and everything.

[93accordexcoupe]

what about the faceplate? sometimes mine wont turn on cause the faceplate isnt pushed in all the way and it seems like it was. kind of dumb of me but maybe thats it. other than that ive got no clue

[jboyce]

I have the exact same problem, but the weird thing is, when i plug in my other radio, it gets power...but when i plug in my new one it doesnt get power....it did at first, but now it doesnt. now neither of them get power. ??????

[briinh]

i still didn't figure it out, i tried what everyone said it it still doesn't work. i tried checking the fuses, and then passed the yellow wore to the battery and it still doesn't work...

[accordztech]

put the same deck in another car...see if it works, if it dont its fried.

[jboyce]

how much does it usually cost to get a stereo repaired if it fried?

[briinh]

i never got them fixed, it gave me a reason to buy a better newer one

[dusty]

Was going to say check the fuse in the deck...that will fry before anything is fried in the deck (usually)