With a wee road trip planned to deliver some gear and visit family it was time to sort out a few annoying things with the wheels as some months ago the radio started beeping irrespective of whether it was ON or OFF.
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Pulling the Aux fuse was the only way to stop it
![Flogging A Dead Horse :horse:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/DeadHorse.gif.pagespeed.ce.kBWvHKqCd1.gif)
but that also killed the clock and the cig lighter socket which is always reserved for the radar detector and GPS.
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Under the passenger seat was also TV/GPS unit installed in Japan but inoperable here in NZ so in case that had something to do with the radio fault that needed to get yanked out while I was at it.
Front seat removed and door sill molding to expose the many wires some of which connected to the dashboard radio that is also the head deck for the 12 CD stacker in the rear compartment.
After a couple of hours carefully stripping out all unnecessary cabling and HW and now with part of the center console removed and radio/head deck hanging on wires
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it was time to find out why this furking radio was playing up.
Tautech checks work and tidies up remaining wiring only to find a rear loom connector with a fancy retaining clip wasn't locked completely home with a very satisfying clack.
![WTF? :wtf:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/wtf2.gif.pagespeed.ce.pxLiY5pjs4.gif)
Fuse installed ......NO beeps !
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Radio ON...tune to fav station ....you little beauty.
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CD mode selected and Pink Floyd noises emerge.
![Phew :phew:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/phew.gif.pagespeed.ce.n2uLOVFYMP.gif)
Another hour to reinstall radio, console and all the other stuff ripped out to gain access.
Then another hour to pack away all the TEA readied to do battle with the beeping radio that I've been postponing for months until a relatively free day.
Findings.....main rear loom partly unplugged and radio not being able to connect to speakers went into fault mode.