My car worked Perfectly fine before i wired up my amp...

I followed all of the instructions that came with the amp and wiring kit.
The amp didn't come on the first time i tried, so i figured i had a bad ground.
I was grounding it to the rail on the chasis that the front 2 bolts that hold the passenger seat goes. I sanded it down to bare metal and bolted my ground down to it, this time it powered right up.

Today when i went to secure all of my wires and clean it up, i was cleaning my battery terminals, i absent-mindedly touched the + cable for the amp to the + terminal while the car's + cable was detatched from the terminal. I know i should have pulled my inline fuse from the amp cable while doing this...

When i hooked my battery back up my car was dead. Almost posative i shorted my battery when i did this... but idk
Also when i sat in my car, i touched my doorframe, it shocked me

I jumpstarted it, and it didn't run for very long and died again.
I suck at electrical stuff.


When i touched the frame and it shocked me, doesn't that mean that i still have a short?
What is the safest way to hook up the + amp wire (pics anybody)?
And i have a 2nd battery i know is good, should i think about trunk-mounting it with an isolator to save me from messing up my main battery in the future
Whats the best place to ground an amp?

 

uhhhhhhhhh wtf did you do? i have hooked up TONS of amps in many cars and have never had this problem. is the positive wire, by chance touching the remote turn on, which is leaving the amp on causing the battery to die?

there's really only one way to run an amp installation kit. positive wire goes from the battery to the amp. ground goes to a close by (approx. 1ft) clean metal area, such as a seat bolt. remote hooks up the deck. run the rca's on the opposite side of the car as the power wire.

as far as hooking up the positive wire, just use a ring terminal and attach it to one of the bolts on the battery terminal clamp so that is securely attached when you tighten the bolt down. double check that the positive wire isn't rubbing on anything, and that nothing is shorting out. you shouldn't have caused any damage by the positive wire from the amp touching the battery by its self

 

I did all of these and all is good with the amp.
Turns on when it should and off when it should

But i know i must have a short somewhere if i got shocked when i touched the frame.