Help, just picked up an 89 accord with no radio. My son was trying to install, and pulled the stero out - must have caught a wire, because now there are no panel lights or dash lights.
I checked fuses and they are ok, and I don't see any loose wires. Any help or suggestions besides not letting my son touch car - It will be his soon. Thanks much!

 

get a multimeter and check connections, other than that? I'm not sure that I can think of anything that'd cause that, unless he blew a fuse by grounding something out. Unfortunate thing, but I wouldn't be too mad at him .

- Nathan

 

check the dimmer\accessory wire then the fuse

 

which is the dimmer/accessory wire and/or fuse?
I can't find a fuse labled anything close and I do not have a manual. I think the dimmer/accessory wire is the red /black. Its hard to read any schematics. It looks like fuse 7 in the hayes manual. But my fuse 7 is a high beam fuse.

 

if he pulled a live wire loose and it grounded out somewhere it could've melted the wires together... that's what happened with my jimmy.. somehow the cig lighter + wire came loose, grounded out, heated up real bad, and all the wires behind the radio melted together causing a ton of trouble one of the many things that went wrong in that truck.

Good luck. Doesn't sound like there's going to be an easy fix for this one.

 

on my car its an orange wire \ but not sure which fuse

 

check the small lght fuse under the hood. same thing happened to me when my "illumination" wire touched the metal bracket while i was installing my radio.

 

Thanks for the pointer on where to start. I'll keep y'all posted.

 

Ah-ha - I see in the engine just outside the fire wall a hanging orange wire with what looks like the wire was ripped from the engine some where. Now just from where...

 

that doesnt sound too good