before the other night i had never installed my own deck before.

i had done it a million times on the bench at work, but never in a car.

so i was working for liek 4 hours with my nak and my eclipse trying to figure out what i was missing.

i rewired everything at least 5 times on two different harnesses form both of my cars...

checked the fuses, checked the wires in the back of the clips, checked everything, and i still couldnt figure it out...

i stopped to eat and went back at it with a small flashlight in my mouth digging through the dash...

what could be wrong....

then the hypothetical slap in the face,

i put the friggin key in the ignition.

please, tell me how much of an idiot i am..

 

Your not! We all have done well silly things your just man enough to admit to it! Good you figured it out and hopefully we all can learn from it.

 

as a reward for my honesty and perserverence...

when i started my car up again to move it, other electrical probems that i had figured themselves out...

now everything is hunky-dory.

if only my brakes would firm up a bit...

 

Whenever I do any kind of job and it doesn't work, it always turns out to be the dumbest thing that I forgot to do. You just don't check those things ever because they are so simple you assume that they aren't the problem! LOL!

 

ahahhaha
check this one out!
i blew a fuse in my deck... so i remove it to verify that it as the fuse and replace it. i confirmed it was the fuse. HAH! put everthing back in place and try it again.... no go... WTF? forgot to replace the actual F'n FUSE i went in the first place for!! AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

ive also done that exact same thing and had to take thwe deck out and repeat the whole proses.....so i get the deck out pull the fuse put by the new one got a phone call, took the call and then went back to the deck put the fuse in put the deck and dash back togethter to find out i put the bad fuse back in.... [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img] man did i ever fell like a tool....but itwas all fun [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

 

Heh....

Installing a Clarion changer for a fellow employee at work... Got the changer mounted, all wires run, plug it into the CLarion deck, pop a cd in the cartridge - error code.



Check the cd, check the orientation dials on the side, all good. The thing will not read cds. Ok, so I figure the thing is fuct. Pull the car out, tell the owner to get the manual to see what the error code means. Half an hour later a fellow installer comes in with the manual.

Him - Guess what error #29 means?

Me - [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

Him - cd inserted upside-down.

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