Re: IML: Door speaker access / Vinyl half-top (1993)

[Jason Wulf <jrwulf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Heyoo!  I'm glad you got it fixed.  Just a thought, perhaps a previous
owner fried all the wiring by either a) lighting all the cigar
lighters at once [those suckers draw SERIOUS current] or b) perhaps he
had 8 splitters running off the lighter, and thus running everything
from a 400W inverter on a laptop, to a cell phone charger, and a hair
dryer [or something equally rediculous to be using while in a vehicle]
all at the same time, and melted it.  That's about the only thing I
can think of that will fry the beefy wiring for those lighters.

-jason


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:19:20 -0400, John T. Folden
<nedloftj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Update on both fronts, for those interested..
> 
> Speakers: Success!
> 
> After a couple hours of hard work and weird bodily contortions, I
> finally have sound coming out of all speakers.  :-)
> 
> The good news is that the speakers themselves were fine and sound
> great... but with the sweets come the sour.
> 
> It seems the problem was due to a short in the wiring behind the dash.
> After removing the storage bin and glove box area I found myself with a
> horror in the making. Someone, somehow managed to fry (and I do mean
> FRY as in no rubber shielding left at all) the electrical wiring for
> several accessory devices like cigarette lighter, glove box light, etc.
> Rather than do something logical like fix it they instead had
> apparently unplugged the connections for all the cigarette lighters in
> the car.  :-/
> 
> One wire in particular had melted through the shielding of a speaker
> wire causing it to short out the two speakers in question. I was able
> to correct this, however, I'm afraid the accessory wiring itself will
> require someone more skilled than me so I guess it will get a nice
> visit to the Chrysler dealer for a quote. I don't use the cig lighters
> at all so I'm in no rush for those BUT I'd hate to think there's some
> other issue in that area waiting to happen.
> 
> Vinyl half-top:  I think there's no saving the current finish on the
> Landau top. I've tried every option mentioned here, off-list, and at
> detailcity.com and gotten absolutely no improvement at all. I've
> decided that the staining must be some sort of chemical damage. I can
> only guess someone took a very "wrong" cleaner to it somewhere along
> the way. I think in the Spring I'll let a professional re-dye it when I
> have the car repainted.
> 
> Thanks everyone for all your help on those issues.  I'm sure I'll have
> some more soon enough.  :-p
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John
> 
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