Madibaileey

Hey guys,
I have a quick question, it seems like I have gotten myself into a situation! I drive a '96 F150, yesterday I was trying to replace my radio with a newer "deck" considering I still had the original. So I got a wiring to adapt the '96 dash wiring to the new stereos wiring. So I spliced all the wires, taped them...the new deck didn't work. It was getting dark so I pulled the adapters out plugged the original deck in and now it doesn't turn on at all. So I thought I blew a fuse in all the excitement of plugging, unplugging wiring and all that. So I switched the fuse still no power. I looked in my manual and nothing is said about losing power to the radio. Sooo after all that being said I am not sure why my radio won't turn on now! Any suggestions? Thanks!

Mista_Breeze

That's unfortunate. Best place to start would be test for power at the radio end of the harness. Maybe the power or remote wire came loose at the plug?

AbbadonTD

I will have a better answer next weekend, when I do my deck.

Its probably Illumination. you may have blown the fuse, but the orange lines are almost always the problem. Modern decks need to have power to the illumination/dimmer. Swap those lines off the deck and usually that solves this problem.