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Old 22 Feb 2004, 10:23 pm
Randolph
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Default Re: Found the short. (Re: instrument and marker lights stay on, evenwith fuse pulled !! short?where?)

Thanks for posting the solution to your problem. I wish more people
would do that.

Elan7eOwner wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I found the short, in a very odd place.
> I DID suspect it could be something to do with my radio, which I had been
> fiddling with for a long time, because my right speaker would cut out
> intermittently (one of the million other weird problems, I keep having with
> my car.This one was a issue known to happen in 91 civics due to cold solder
> joints, I learned)
>
> So the short is when the loose radio lights illumination (+) wire touches
> the radio battery backup (+) wire. (They are next to each other and to the
> right speaker (+) wire)
> Weird huh. I guess the illumination wire is part of the marker lights
> circuit, while the battey backup wire is from the always-on ciggarette
> lighter circuit.
>
> Whatever. Honda sux. So much time wasted and so much hassle

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