Hi All,
I am having some weird issues with my 8. When I go to start it, I hear clicking coming from the vicinity of the fuse box, and I get some odd dial sweeps. All the dials tick off the top 1/3 to 1/4 of their respective range for a few seconds. My radio seems to "charge" if I leave the car in the on position. Basically, the LCD will barely light up, then slowly get to the point that the radio comes on for a few seconds, then shuts off. Then does that all over.
I thought it was my battery, but after sitting all weekend it read 12.07V on my multimeter. I had thought I solved it by checking my ground connections around 2 weeks ago, but found something strange in my fusebox. There were some odd connections on the fusebox itself, as well as a ground wire drilled through the plastic and attached to the mounting point of the main fuse box.
In the pictures, the colour of the outline box represents the wire it is connected to. The white box, is a switch/relay/Ihavenoidea that I found underneath the fuses in the main box. The top green box, is a soldered connection (I soldered it, as it was just twisted and taped together previously), that basically just reduces the gauge of the green wire so it can be spliced later. The bottom green box is where the green wire connects to a black wire with a blue stripe into the fuel pump speed? relay. The red box is where the RED wire splices into a white wire with a green stripe that goes to a 15A fuse.
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Picture 2 is the actual switch/relay/Ihavenoidea that I found, along with the markings/diagram on the side. 4 wires are attached to things, and the 5th is not attached anywhere. The Red and Green wires are attached as described above and pictured below, the blue is attached to the main fuse box as seen in picture 1. The black is attached to the lower mounting point for the fuse box, which I sanded the nut to get a better connection. The Yellow wire is cut, and not attached to anything.
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Picture 3 is the splice that the GREEN wire from the original splices into the fuel pump speed relay after being reduced to a smaller gauge grey wire. The grey wire is pretty chewed up, so I was thinking that it might be shorting, so I moved the splice up to a point before the break.
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Picture 4 is a picture of the splice for the RED wire, into a White with green stripe wire that goes to the 15A headlight low L fuse.
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I'm guessing, based just on writing this out and investigating the connections, that this is a VERY POORLY installed DRL switch, as this car was imported from the US to Canada. But could this cause the issues I've been having? It seems a little strange that it would take EVERYTHING out like that, but I don't know enough about electrical to say otherwise. Let me know if any more info would be helpful. Any suggestions for testing would be very much appreciated.
I am having some weird issues with my 8. When I go to start it, I hear clicking coming from the vicinity of the fuse box, and I get some odd dial sweeps. All the dials tick off the top 1/3 to 1/4 of their respective range for a few seconds. My radio seems to "charge" if I leave the car in the on position. Basically, the LCD will barely light up, then slowly get to the point that the radio comes on for a few seconds, then shuts off. Then does that all over.
I thought it was my battery, but after sitting all weekend it read 12.07V on my multimeter. I had thought I solved it by checking my ground connections around 2 weeks ago, but found something strange in my fusebox. There were some odd connections on the fusebox itself, as well as a ground wire drilled through the plastic and attached to the mounting point of the main fuse box.
In the pictures, the colour of the outline box represents the wire it is connected to. The white box, is a switch/relay/Ihavenoidea that I found underneath the fuses in the main box. The top green box, is a soldered connection (I soldered it, as it was just twisted and taped together previously), that basically just reduces the gauge of the green wire so it can be spliced later. The bottom green box is where the green wire connects to a black wire with a blue stripe into the fuel pump speed? relay. The red box is where the RED wire splices into a white wire with a green stripe that goes to a 15A fuse.
Attachment 214258
Picture 2 is the actual switch/relay/Ihavenoidea that I found, along with the markings/diagram on the side. 4 wires are attached to things, and the 5th is not attached anywhere. The Red and Green wires are attached as described above and pictured below, the blue is attached to the main fuse box as seen in picture 1. The black is attached to the lower mounting point for the fuse box, which I sanded the nut to get a better connection. The Yellow wire is cut, and not attached to anything.
Attachment 214259
Picture 3 is the splice that the GREEN wire from the original splices into the fuel pump speed relay after being reduced to a smaller gauge grey wire. The grey wire is pretty chewed up, so I was thinking that it might be shorting, so I moved the splice up to a point before the break.
Attachment 214260
Picture 4 is a picture of the splice for the RED wire, into a White with green stripe wire that goes to the 15A headlight low L fuse.
Attachment 214261
I'm guessing, based just on writing this out and investigating the connections, that this is a VERY POORLY installed DRL switch, as this car was imported from the US to Canada. But could this cause the issues I've been having? It seems a little strange that it would take EVERYTHING out like that, but I don't know enough about electrical to say otherwise. Let me know if any more info would be helpful. Any suggestions for testing would be very much appreciated.
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