if the parking lights have anything to do with the radio wiring? i keep popping fuses for the parking lights and i want to fix it asap. no wires that i can see shorting to ground or anything. has anyone else encountered this problem. can anyone help?? thnx

 

You might have connected the wrong wire to the illumination wire when you hooked the stereo up. Did you do the stereo install yourself?

 

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You should really take care of this!

 

yea i did it my self. but didnt know ther was a illumination wire ? what color is it usually? and my stereo works fine

 

its one of the orange wires. i had the same issue when i used a walmart harness.

 

thats xactly what i have i switched the power wires and there it is! thanx

 

That happened to me years ago in my Integra and I was furious, glad you fixed it.

 

its not over lol. now everytime i turn my car off the radio loses memory??? wth!!! but my lights work lol. now i have to sacrifice something lol

 

the yellow wire isn't hooked up to a constant 12v source.

make this easier...
you know how to hook up power to a stereo, right?
from the stereo, there is 2 power cords, or there should be. a 12v yellow constant power, a red 12v aux power. oh, and a ground.

12v yellow hooks up to a wire that always has power, even when the car is off (aka, cigarette lighter is what i used, in my 88)
12v red hooks up to a wire that only has power when the key is in the 1 or 2 position, not in the off position. (cigarette lighter in the 90+)

get your volt meter out and test some wires...

 

thats how i had it at first. when it was like like that i kept poping the instrument cluster light fuse. im using the 12v constant from the cig lighter and kant find any other 12v constant n the bundle . what could i do?

 

there should be one in the fuse box, an un-used slot.
or else, connect your volt-meter up to a ground, and just test a few wires in the bundle of wires that are for the stereo.
i used the second method... i even got an oem honda radio to work eventually.

also, i don't think i ever used the "illumination" wire on any deck i own... it is not hooked up to anything. it isn't needed in our older cars.

 

allright ill find a 12v constant