electrical problems headlights and radio

[halfevil333]

Okay, I've been trying to figure this out for awhile now and just keep getting more confused. The story is, I wrecked my eclipse, had to rebuild an engine for it, and weld in a new radiator support. It also messed my fusebox up, so I got one from a junkyard and one by one, pinned my wires into the new box. I am 100% positive on the locations of the wires, as I did it one at a time, and triple checked the locations. I bought some cheap sonar projector headlights off of craigslist that were new, only paid $50 for them, the guy just needed them gone. I lost my stock headlight connectors, so I decided to just put bullet connectors on the wires and cut the plugs off. My low beams do not turn on, and the high beams do not turn off. I checked all of the relays in the box, as well as all of my fuses, inside and out, as well as checking continuity between the harness at the switch and the headlights. Pulled my switch apart, cleaned it, everything looks good, checked continuity of the terminals on the switch, everything checks out there too. My other problem is that I don't have power at my radio harness. Again, checked all the fuses, and continuity between the harness and fuses, no power. any ideas of other things i could check, please let me know. Help me out here guys, I need to get this thing inspected. Thanks in advance!!

 

[Dsmkauai]

Sucks to here about your problems bro. Sounds like you mixed wires up on the headlights or have a bad ground. As for the radio did you check the fuse under the hood? Or try and run a different power wire to the head unit and see what happens. If it still doesn't turn on check your ground wire for the head unit. I can't really help to much more at this point because I am out of town. But maybe find another eclipse or diagram to verify correct wiring for the lights.

 

[Mitsubishigst1999]

Sorry about your bad day buddy but I actually had the same problem with my car it ended up being I wired the wires up wrong please double check.

 

[halfevil333]

Well, what throws me off, is that there is power through all of the headlight fuses and relays, but of the three wires for the headlights, one has continuity with ground, one has power with the high beams, and one just never gets power, but isn't grounded out. I have a very strong feeling that the two issues are connected somehow. My only real clue about the radio, is that there isn't any power going to the radio fuse under the hood. Anyone know where the power comes from for the fuse? I know it comes from the battery , but what wires, locations, etc. I might just have to run the headlights on switches and a direct power wire to the head unit if I cant figure it out, but I would really like to have it working like normal.

 

[halfevil333]

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