03 Liberty Sirius

I helped another installer do an Sportster 4 in an 03 Liberty tonight and now the car is acting weird. After hardwiring the satelite radio, suddenly the 12v constant wires went dead at the radio. As a temporary solution until we could figure out whats going on with it she ran a new 12v constant from the ignition harness. Everything seemed hunky dory at that point. Well the guy called back and said his power door locks now only work when the car is on, the headlights only work when the car is on and there is some issue with the rear hatch (not sure what the issue is, the information I have was passed on to me by another installer) Anybody have any clues as to what would cause this? We tried checking the fuses for the radio, only Liberty's do not have the fuse layout printed by the fuse box, only in the owners manual which he didn't have. We pulled all the fuses we could to check them (except ones surrounded by yellow plastic) and found nothing.

Sounds like a horror story unfolding.

How sure are you that you caught constant from the harness?

Are there any other connections besides your constant? What did you do for a ground? Is there an FM mod that you used as well?

Why did you pull the fuses, not just use a meter or test light?

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Again I was only an assistant in this install, only thing I really did was make the bracket fit so we could mount the thing nicer. To the best of my knowledge, she tagged the swtiched power and ground at the radio harness for the satelite. And the functionality would agree, it works fine. Turn the key, no radio, but satelite comes on. I metered the constant at the radio and it was dead. She checked the fuses (not sure why she didn't just meter) and found nothing. Then she pulled the ignition harness and found the constant, metered it, and it tested as a constant as well, connected a fused wire to this constant, and ran it to the radio, And all seemed well.

You know what, i had an issue with i believe a 02 or 03 chrysler vehicle and didn't have power at teh radio. After testing all the normal fuses I noticed that there were two fuses surrounded in the yellow(normally meaning airbag). This time it was not the case. Checked and tripled checked and it was the fuses for the fog lights/headlights and radio. So took the two fuses out and replaced one of them and worked fine. Everything was back to normal. These fuses were located under the hood fusebox. I couldn't figure out how to take the fuses out of the yellow surround so I just threw two new ones in and everything was good. Really look closely at those ones that had yellow around them. Could be the same thing.

I'll take a look at that and see.

Anybody else have any last minute insight before I go deal with this one?

Figured it out!!! Every problem we had, was 1 fuse. Fuse #34 on a 2003 Liberty will make the vehicle go completely nuts if this fuse is blown. The rear hatch wouldn't pop, keyless only worked if the key was turned to on, headlights wouldn't turn on without the key turned to on, rear defrost would pop when you turned it on, power locks didn't work at all, etc. Replaced fuse #34 and it was good as new. Glad that one worked out easily.

Was it a fuse that was surrounded in yellow or just a fuse you overlooked yesterday.

It wasn't surrounded in yellow, but was surrounded in white the exact same way. There was a pair of fuses surrounded with a yellow plug and a pair of fuses surrounded with a white plug. Turned out to be the white one. We didn't mess with it yesterday as we didn't have access to a fuse diagram layout and didn't want to risk it. Found a fuse diagram, figured it out and took care of it.