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 > > ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- > This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please > reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be > shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the > Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm > > ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm