okay so i was installing my alarm system. and i shorted two wires and it caused a little spark. and everything goes wrong
wrongs:

lights doesnt turn on without the car keys turned to I
when car in, with the lights the back lights dont work. if i step on the break it works

lights in the gauges dont work. so i cant see how fast im going when im driving..

i cant lock the doors, if the key is in and turned to one then i can lock the doors. ONLY IF THE door is closed.. (i think its the door pin..

my auto up for driver window dont work..

i cant unlock car with remote or lock or trunk release..

what a great day huh? yall think i can do anything to fix these?


the wires i shorted..



Lock Motor white/red 5wi 18 pin grn plug, driver fuse box

Unlock Motor yellow 5wi 18 pin grn plug, driver fuse box

 

also my security leds on doors dont blink anymore

 

did you check the fuses?

 

yeah checked about half of it.. but i still dont understand whats wrong with it..

like i dont even know what fuse to look at..

 

Take it to prof alarm installer and have them check it out....i donno know what else to say, thats what i would do.

 

i mean.. i installed it about 9/10 of the way.. i just didnt know how to get the lock working.. crapp. you think they will charge alot? i mean i have all the parts (by pass and alarm system)

 

first thing id do is check all the fuses. theres a diagram in the owners manual of what a bad fuse looks like.

 

noo noo shouldnt be much since its usually $100 to install a basic alarm... good luck doood!

 

if i cant find the problem and fix it.. i think ima go to acura and see whats the problem. and if it cost me alot to fix ima just sell the car and buy somthing eles..

 

that sounds a little silly. first off, unhook your battery to prevent any more shorts.

you said you have it 9/10ths of the way installed? i would try going back and un hooking what you can, in case its the alarm messing with the car.

Also, as mentioned already check all the fuses with a fuse checker (sometimes a bad fuse looks good) There are three fuse panels in the car. one on the pass. side, one on the drivers side, and one in the engine compartment.

These steps might save you some money vs. going to acura.

 

i unhooked the alarm harness so its not connected to anything. and its making me nuts i mean! no driving light at night?! someone is going to hit me :P anyways ima cheak all the fuses and if i find it ill let yall know! but i think i fucked up my car real good.. im not sure guys :[

 

yeah check ALL the fuses first, they are there to prevent shorts from overheating stuff and prevent fires,

also about the drivers window, it has to be reinitlized (sp?), after the battery is disconnected any time (or the memory loses power, like from a blown fuse)

 

or you might have just fried (or blown the fuse for it) the multiplex unit (i think the driver's door one or something)(it is just basically the Body Control Module)

 

There is a couple of things on the first list that are on the same fuse I know I shorted that fuse!!

 

:shakehead <in red

 

yall know which fuse?! D: i realllly really reallly need this >.> also is there like a hidden fuse box somewhere? besides drivers side, pass side, and engine bay?

 

there is a couple of them under the hood, all against the firewall, but there are also the driver side one and a passenger side one inside, they are behind those little cover you see on the dash (on the end of the dash) when you open up the doors

 

Im not sure it is a fuse....... but I know the fuse for the passenger side window is on the passengers side near the bottom of the car

There are relays and fuses in the engine bay

Sorry I wasnt more of a help

 

crap.. do y'all thing this is a real problem? or just some small one with fuses?! because if i cant turn on my light with the light switch while car is off, then i wonder how is the light on while the car is on?

 

as said earlier, it sounds like "BCM" is not working; which could be you blew the fuse for it (so it has no power to run) or you could have fried the module itself

 

i think i fryed the module.. how much is it for a new one? or.. is it even replaceable?

but then again i just taped two wires for like .5 sec and made a spark.. could that really fry it?

 

I could also be a simple relay which are hard to check but u can take them out and shake them if you hear somthing moving inside then its either good or bad I forget I would check those

 

Also my time isnt showing on the dash.

 

In my exprience it sounds like a relay that connects power to the passenger side fuse box but your going to have to pull every relay under the hood to figure out which one because I have no idea what supplies power over there

Where did you Touch the wires togther, eg. under the hood

 

that is all it can take to fry a module, some electronic don't take much abuse, while others you can beat the crap out of all day, and they just keep working, car computers are more on the latter side,
but as said check all the fuses first, to make sure it is not just a blown fuse (i accendently shorted the o2 heater circuit on my old car's ecu, and that just blew a fuse and did not fry the ecu)

new one??? might be able to just get a used one (and cheaper, and the damage is not from it being a bad design, it's is from installer error )
replaceable??? yes, what is't on a car??? (just saying)

 

kinda sounds like the memory back up fuse, did your radio happen to lose it presets too???

 

i have an aftermarket radio so i dont remember..

do you have like aim or somthing? you seem useful and know all about my problem.. i could really use your help.

back up memory fuse.. doesnt that just reset my time every time i turn off the car?

because i cant even see the time on the dash, like No numbers at all.

 

no aim or anything, but you can pm me, but i gotta go take a shower and proably won't be back on tonight though

 

how about you remove the alarm

 

the alarm isnt even pluged in.. the its just the harness sitting there

 

also the lights dont turn on without the keys being in and turned to acc

and i cant lock while the car is off.

i believe its the fuse, sorry if i keep repeating myself. im new to this kinda BCM thing...

where can i find this BCM and the fuse that goes with it?

 

I'm no expert but it sounds like you fried something, I would take it to someone who knows about the wiring inside a car, witch I imagine is pretty tricky. Maybe even a electricion could lend advise.

 

The problem with taking it to someone is there going to check the fuses and the relays and every little thing and charge you for it

I would do that myself aand if you still have the problem then go see someone about it and tell them that u checked all that stuff

 

I would take it to a installer, NOT ACURA, someone that installs radios & alarms & tell them what you did, pay to fix it, & just suck up the lesson learned & be done with it.

 

uninstall everything. sounds like you damaged your cars dash wiring harness or the multiplex unit.

this is why u always unplug the battery when fuckign with electronics

 

I once tried to hardwire my XM radio and also sparked it a fried my XM radio, right after that my coil pack went bad.. I dunno if it was coincidence or if the spark caused the coil pack to go bad!

 

My 1st time I tried to hard wire a K40 radar detector to my 300M's rear view mirror dimmer wires I blew the security system out. Couldn't start my car even with the key. Had to get it towed to a dealer to get it fixed. They covered it though. Car only had 2K miles on in.
And that was on my lunch hour in my job's parking lot. I was bored

 

not really, they deal with more power circuits and not control circuits (like computers)(they do some but not as much as a automotive shop does (or an audio install place does( and most of what they do are very basic compared to car computers today








and to OP, don't worry everyone frys a computer/module at some point (luckily i have not done a car's computer yet, but i have done a amp meter [multimeter], by trying to put more amperage through it then what it was rated for) (whoopsies i let the smoke out),

so just take it as a lesson, to not connect wires directly together to just test them out, and to possibly disconnect the battery next time

 

one of the fuses must have gone out. shouldnt be anything big

 

yeah. i found the fuse after like 45 mins today