installed new stereo now car kind of won't start

[schmurda]

99 v6 accord, replaced factory cd player with double din dvd player/stereo/whatever. Bought and soldered wire harness to new stereo's wire harness and everything works perfectly when key is turned to accessory. Once I turn the key to the start position there's a loud click, everything dies, and the car wont start. Each time this has happened I disconnected the new stereo and after about 10 minutes the car will start again. What did I **** up?

 

[schmiddr2]

You need to measure battery voltage and check the battery terminals for connection.

 

[james'99]

Reinstalling the factory double din, do you experience this issue? This sounds really strange. The best I can give at the moment is check all fuses. Did you possibly reverse the acc wire and 12v wire? Not totally sure. Only reason I ask is if you did that, you could possibly be backfeeding the accessory circuit and as you know, while the car is starting, the car shuts off all accessory power. Maybe a possible backfeed of 12v into the accessory circuit when 12v shouldn't be there is causing this. The radio would function properly with this wiring error though in accessory mode.

 

[twofast4u]

sounds like a short somewhere. Did you use an aftermarket conversion harness? or did you cut and solder the oem harness

 

[xci.ed6]

wires are example 'black with red stripe'...which wire went to which?

 

[schmurda]

This is probably too confusing for anyone to care about but here goes:
Reinstalled the factory unit and car starts like normal. I bought an aftermarket harness and soldered it up to the new unit's harness. All fuses are good.


Here's where I don't know what I'm doing:
I have 4 wires that have no equivalent on the aftermarket harness (brown labeled "parking", brown with black stripe labeled "key 2", blue with black stripe labeled "key 1", and pink labeled "reverse". Also the two orange wires that I connected based on color coding (orange to orange and orange/white to orange/white). But this being a pretty cheap unit from China the labels and diagrams don't match up.

 

[schmurda]

Im trying to upload pictures of all this but I've only been a member for a day so the forum won't allow it.

 

[schmiddr2]

Maybe this will help: http://crutchfield.custhelp.com/app...sion/L3RpbWUvMTQyMTM0OTk3NS9zaWQvZ3hUbWx4Y20=

 

[xci.ed6]

I have 4 wires that have no equivalent on the aftermarket harness (brown labeled "parking", brown with black stripe labeled "key 2", blue with black stripe labeled "key 1", and pink labeled "reverse". Also the two orange wires that I connected based on color coding (orange to orange and orange/white to orange/white). But this being a pretty cheap unit from China the labels and diagrams don't match up.

Do not connect anything w/o a match
Do not mash based on color
'parking' usually refers to parking lights

post based on connection:
car harness->-adapter harness->-radio harness

I do not know what adapter or radio you used

 

[james'99]

It may be best just to start over.

amazon.com/Metra-70-1721-Wiring-Harness-Speaker/dp/B0002BF09S

What is the model of the headunit?