ok...I have a '92 civic hatchback...eversince i have had this car the OEM head unit has not worked (or so i thought)...so I finally installed a new deck this week. well, sitting in the car with the acc on, the unit is fine....when i drive, it cuts on off...on off...it may play for 5 minutes...then shut off for 20 minutes. It is hap-hazzard when it cuts on and off. Also, when the deck is off the cig lighter doesn't work...and when its on the cig lighter works.....sounds like a fuse/power problem right??? well that's what i thought...but, no matter how long the radio is off, the time/station presets are not lost....

I have read in some forums where it may be a bad ground....bad ELD, etc...

I may just run a power wire directly from the batt to the deck to see if this fixes it?


If it is the ELD...where the hell is it located?

any help is appreciated!!

thanks

 

Sounds like a loose ground/power wire.

 

wouldnt i loose the time and presets if it was a loose pwr/ground?

 

I don't know. You didn't say that you were or not. Are you running a harness or is everything hacked up in there. IS the deck and lighter wired together somewhere?

 

The radio has two power wires, one constant voltage (memory) and one from the ignition switch. The latter wire or fuse may be loose.

 

wires are not hacked...using oem plug/wireing harness

I am NOT losing time/presets

 

where is the ign wire/fuse number?

 

Yel/Red wire - 15A fuse 23

By the way, this is the same wire and fuse for the cig lighter.

 

im having the same problem except my battery dies out, like i cant run my radio and fogs at the same time or the radio and radar bc my everything just goes dead...ima look into though...hope this thread helps some...

 

Test your battery/alternator. I don't think you have the same problem.

 

so, this is the ign/switched wire fuse?

 

yes

 

ok...i will check all that....thanks for the info!

 

just for knowing...where does the constant pwr come from...a fused source?

 

7.5A hood Back Up fuse - Wht/Blu wire

 

ok...little update....

drove into work this morning and same thing...on/off...on/off with no lose of time or presets....so it's obviously a "switched" pwr. So, I removed fuse #23 for the radio/cig lighter and sanded the prongs of the fuse and put back in. The whole way home the radio worked fine as well as the cig lighter....maybe corrosion was my enemy...fingers crossed!