Bad ground on wiring harness

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Topic: Bad ground on wiring harness

Posted By: italian_virus
Subject: Bad ground on wiring harness
Date Posted: May 14, 2006 at 12:57 PM

Hello All,

i recently found that while soldering my connections from my deck to my stock harness that my ground seems to be "bad", when i power on the unit it does not turn on, when using the stock wiring harness ground. But when i grounded it directly to the chassis it turned on.

I read the post in terns of proper ground, and i know a logical answer would be to just make a new ground directly to the chassis, but i was just curious to know on why it would just stop working? Ive checked fuses, relays nothing ;s

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Posted By: frydchkn
Date Posted: May 23, 2006 at 6:59 PM

Year and make of car would be very helpful

Posted By: spookiestylez
Date Posted: May 23, 2006 at 7:43 PM

*cold solder* maybe, make sure you heat the wire up enough so the solder absorbs all the way through the wire and stays silver...yellow solder is usally a sign of cold solder....remember you dont need a bunch of solder, just enough for it to absorb all the way through.Hope that helps

Posted By: godd dan it
Date Posted: May 24, 2006 at 4:44 AM

Sometimes cars have electrical problems or bad grounds using the stock ground within the radio harness. Your best bet is to ground it to the cars chassis.