I installed the pioneer mp3 player head unit in my xfire. Installation was smooth thanks to the posts around here. It sounds and works great... BUT

My rear spoiler now deploys at around 5 mph and stays up. The light on the spoiler dash switch blinks and the switch is inactive until i turn the car off and back on again. This problem occurs whether the radio is on or off. I can't imagine what I did to mess up the spoiler. Do you think i could have messed something during stuffing all the audio wires down behind the dash?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

did you remove the console to install the radio? you should have been able to get the stock deck out without touching the rest of the dash. IIRC there aren't alot of other wires back there that the radio can interfere with; just the console frame itself.

 

I didn't remove anything other than the stock radio. It was a little difficult to stuff the mess of wires behind the new unit. I'll get a chance to fiddle with it later and hopefully I can find the problem...

 

check to see if you tapped any extra wires. did you buy the Scosche wiring adapter or splice the new deck in yourself? maybe you caught a spoiler wire? good luck --

 

Problem solved. There are 2 blue wires on the scosche harness that both must be connected to the blue remote turn on wire on the pioneer. Everything works fine when I do this, hopefully I wont let the smoke out of any electronics. Thanks for your help!

 

The harness I got from crutchfield doesn't have any blue or blue/white wires. Only a pink wire for the amp. I'm assuming right now i've got everything wired up correctly. The only reason I'm not sure is because I can't get the #(@#(*$ factory deck out. I've got the tools from crutchfield and am using ends for "Mercedes applications" but still no luck. The tools are certainly sharp though, my fingers are all cut up from the rough edges. I'm concerned about the different colors on the harnesses... we'll see how it goes.

 

haha -- we have a saying at work that each piece of equipment has magic smoke in it, and if you let the magic smoke out, the piece of gear will never work again.

 

Done! Glorious! Thanks for all the help I received on this and other threads!

 

Funny we say the same thing, The smoke is the electricity, if you let it out you can't put it back in. lol

 

Here it is, October 2011and I'm at the car stereo shop with the same problem! I showed this thread to the techs, and they're trying again with a Scoshe harness. Thanks, guys!

Blaupunkt deck going in, but the same symptoms you had with your Pioneer.

 

see
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...o+removal+tool
for pictures of the tool.
The curved part of each tool faces toward the center of the radio, it helps if you lubricate it a bit with vaseline or whatever on the curved ramp, as there can be some rough edges in there.