It's like when someone calls into CarTalk, and they spend ten minutes trying to carefully diagnose the issue, and they keep throwing out theories, and then one of them says, "yeah, but if that were the case, his check engine light would be on", and the guy goes, "oh, my check engine light *is* on!"...
*sigh*
In other words... that's something you should have told us right from the beginning.
Yes, tying the accessory lines together could easily blow a fuse or fry something. Thats a +12v line being attached to another +12v line. It wasn't meant to be hooked up that way. The thing that you were trying to do there requires a special kind of autoswitching box such as the Sony XA-39II instead.
Your right I should have mentioned it at the beginning but in my defense,it wasn't immediately causing problems so I didn't suspect it.
BTW the engine light is on
This is a 2008 Toyota Corolla.
The wires I tied together were the blue amp remote turn-on wire from empeg harness and the wire from the toyota radio that is called the "antenna amplifier" wire.I do not have an antenna that goes up and down,it is stationary.
The antenna remote from his car stereo might be one of those that's designed to power an [color:#CC0000]amplified antenna[/color], in which case it might put out quite a bit of wattage, so it wouldn't be much of a surprise that it fried something on the player.
I think thats what I have.
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