Just a quick thought. When trouble-shooting electrical stuff, there are two basic modes of failure I look at first. Sudden- electrical or physcal-electrical. The sudden-electrical would be like a fuse, total loss of juice, or the battery. Physical would be like operating a switch or physical device resulting in loss of juice or intermitten failure.
In this case, obviously when you operate the column switch, there is a loss of juice. So 9 chances out of 10, my theory would indicate a faulty column switch, bad contact, etc. Try locating where the radio plugs into the 12v+ lead. Many times they use cheap connectors. When you find this, move the signal indicator slowly while you measure to see if there is voltage to this lead. If no voltage, attach the hot radio 12v+ lead to an independent source and see if the radio works. If it does, that means the radio is good, and the column switch is bad, or a bad connector or something. The spiders had a flimsy column switches with recycled plastic inards. Undoubtedly something broke in there or needs cleaning. Good luck. T-Mobile, America's First Nationwide 4G Network Sent by Samsung Mobile [email protected] wrote: >There's a weird new phenomenon with my '94 Spider, and I'm hoping someone can >offer a bit of advice. Lately, when the radio is playing - and I turn on one >of my turn signals, the whole electrical circuit dies. The radio quits, and >the turn signals won't work. > >Naturally, I checked the fuse circuit diagram and found a couple of things - >first - the fuse controlling the radio should be a 7.5, but instead, I found a >10 amp fuse. Since this is an aftermarket stereo, I decided whoever installed >the new radio (and security system) must have upped the amperage. > >But the weird thing is - the fuse isn't blown. It's still fine, the car radio >and turn signals just don't work. So - any suggestions? Wiring I should check? >If I am looking at my manual correctly, these two things aren't even on the >same circuit, so I can't imagine why one impacts the other. > >Can anyone give me a little advice or direct me where to look under my hood? >It's a good thing I'm small - inspecting that fuse box under my dash isn't for >wimps! > >Jamie in Vegas >-- >to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi >or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
