New to the forums, recently picked myself up a 99 Ram after losing my 98 Chevy to a wiring fire.

The previous owner of my dodge had a junky Kenwood stereo in it, and it quit working on my today. So I purchased myself a new Sony stereo, and after tearing the dash apart I find Mangled, shredded, duct taped, zip tied wiring. I started pulling wires apart, cutting what looked right. I was doing this during dusk, so the dome light was on lighting my truck so I can see. I cut a couple wires at once and I lost my dome light. I used a cell phone for lighting, and finished wiring in the new stereo.

My new stereo won't come on. I've lost my dome light, cargo light, and underhood light. Maybe some more things, not sure. The stereo won't come on. I hooked the wires on the stereo to my Battery, and it works fine. I checked the radio fuse in the door, then under the hood I checked Ignition Run and Ignition Accessory.

I can't figure this out. It's not too important to my right now, I survived 100 miles today with no stereo, I can manage tomorrow. But I'd appreciate any help you guys can give me in solving this problem.

Thanks

 

You do realize that with "cutting" wires and losing all that power, that you more than likely have a hot wire bouncing around under the dash? When you cut the wire that killed your light, did it not occur to you to put that wire back together??????????????

Kinda ironic when I sit here and read your post seeing that you lost one truck before to a wiring issue.....

 

Welcome to the forums.

Take it back out, and hook each wire up properly. Here is a diagram to help:
http://www.installdr.com/Harnesses/DCP-Wiring.pdf

 

Pretty obvious you need to check the rest of the fuses, as one or more blew when you were cutting wires and doing wiring by cell phone lite ! LOL

 

+1 I believe you arced circuits when you cut multiple wires, the cutters linked circuits and currents they shouldn't have. You probably have a fuse blown.

Check the IOD fuse. It'll be in a special housing in the side dash panel. It's a little fuse isolator that slides in and out.

 

Well first off, don't talk about what you don't know. I lost the truck to a wiring issue after I got it back from the shop.
My fiance and I got hit head on by a drunk driver. She was killed instantly.
The wiring issue occured under the hood, not due to a stereo, and NOT by my fault.


I reconnected all the wires before turning on the ignition.
I actually figured it out. It was the I.O.D. fuse.

Thanks guys who actually had something helpful to say.

 

exactly what I was gonna say...its a blue fuse. you never cut multiple wires at once if any of them are live and the acc wire is always unless the fuse or battery is pulled. I juiced myself good as a kid that way and melted a hole in my pocket knife cutting ac wiring

 

My sincerest apologies then. That might be something you want to add in next time. Something to the extent," it wasn't my fault or something".. There is always going to be someone to bust your chops over it. Take it at face value and at that value only. No need to get upset.

 

this helped me also.. with a radio and dome light not working... i blew it while attempting to get the abs codes by grounding the diagnostic pigtail wires...