ORIGINAL: 48fan

Thanks for the responses.

A few days ago I was driving (it had rained and stopped) and when I drove over some railroad tracks my radio came back on. That got me thinking, and so after racking my brain a bit I went outside and slammed my passenger side door a couple times and the radio came back on. I believe the railroad tracks and the slamming of the door got the water off of the problem area inside my passenger side door. When I have time I will pull off the door and find the problem.

Thanks again.

ORIGINAL: 48fan

Jason, I would pull your deck out and use a test light on all of the terminals in the wiring harness to check for shorts. Most likely you have a shorted out voice coil or something inside the speaker and your deck is shutting down as a protection. You could also pull out the speakers and test each one of them with an Ohm meter but that would take more work when you could test all of the speakers with a test light from the wiring harness.

ORIGINAL: 48fan

I fixed it...it was a shorted out speaker on my passeger side.Water must have dripped onto it and shorted it out; it had rust on it (I swear I chacked that speaker for rust though when I taped up the terminals). Oh well, problem solved.

Test light ??? If you're checking for continuity use the multimeter on Ohms lowest setting and can be done from the radio harness end. Put your meter leads on the right + and right - that will check the wiring and the speaker. If you get a reading of 1 or 2ohms , 0 is a dead short ,there is a problem.

ORIGINAL: 48fan


Well a 'continuity tester' if you want to be picky. Continuity testers are only $40 to $50 vs. buying a crap Multimeter for cheap or an expensive one that's actually worth the money.