Well, for starters, I'm a newb to electrical stuff, especially my car audio stuff, so forgive me if I sound like a jackass.

I recently bought an 86 CRX. Normally, I don't listen to much of the radio or anything just because I enjoy driving and I try to minimize the amount of things that might distract me, but my long drives to work are making me tired (probably should sleep more...), so I need something to keep me occupied on the way.

Anyway, I'll turn on my radio and for the first ten or so minutes of driving, it sounds fine. The channels come in fine and there is no distortion. After those ten peaceful minutes, the sound becomes distorted, scratchy, and eventually, inaudible. It's as if the radio has turned off, but I'll look at the deck (some old Sony POS) and it is still on. It still displays the time and the radio station, but I get no sound.

Now what's really wierd is that sometimes, while BRAKING, the signal will completely cut out and there will be no sound. When I let off the brakes, the sound will come back, but then the problem arises again, even without me braking, and I'll get nothing.

I know the car is pretty old. My best (which isn't saying much) guess is that it's old wiring or some sort of loose connection.

By the way, the car only came with one speaker, and it's the rear passenger side speaker. I don't know if that makes a difference or not, but the two door speakers were not there, and neither was the driver's side rear speaker because the bracket was missing. I plan on putting in my friend's Sony Xplode (sp?) speakers, that he's giving to me for free, in the doors and perhaps replacing the rear one.

Can anybody help a completely confused and nearly radio-less newb?

 

It would not surprise me if the speaker leads in the doors, [or the one missing rear one] are shorting out, to ground or the pos. (+) to the neg. (-) 94

 

yup

 

So would installing the door speakers and removing the wire for the missing rear speaker take care of the problem?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JayK &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">So would installing the door speakers and removing the wire for the missing rear speaker take care of the problem?</TD></TR></TABLE> If shorting out speaker wires is the problem, yes, but you don't have to remove them, just tape them off so they can't short out.

Also have you checked the wiring behind the HU?

Check for bare connections or worse "pinched" under the back of the HU and the rear support brace, here is a pin out for the oem harness http://www.installdr.com/Harnesses/HA-Wiring.pdf 94

 

my truck did this when i had done some shitting wiring to it.

it is awful and usually caused my the grounding of the + and - speaker wire leads as mentioned above, just check all the speaker wires and E tape any loose ones so they wont ground out or touch each other