Heater fan and power windows not working
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:43 am
Hello everyone, I am new here and have a question about a 2005 neon that my son just bought.
My son purchased this car last week with 43K miles from a dealer neaby (Ann Arbor). Anyway, he decided he wanted to install a sub-woofer(?) in his trunk. He and a friend, who has installed several of these things before, installed the unit by, apparently, tapping off the existing radio to a relay and running a new power cable directly to the battery. Everything seemed fine until he tried to close his driver's side window. There was no power. He tried his RF door window and found no power there either. Later he also found that his heater fan was also inoperable.
He took his car back to the fly-by-night dealer (he had it only 7 days) and asked them to repair the problem. He has a 30 day warranty but the dealer told him that since he had added the subwoffer that he had voided the warrenty and therefore he wouldn't honor the warrenty!!!
After telling me about the problem I asked him if he had disconnected the battery BEFORE installing the woofer and he says yes he did (But I am doubtful). We checked all the fuses that we could find but all are good. We could not locate any fuse or relay that were marked "Power Windows" or "Heater fan" so we don't know what to do next. I checked the wiring that was installed for the woofer but could not see anything obviously wrong and I am doubtful that the installation of this unit would have created this problem. I am worried however that if this work was done while the battery was connected that he could have shorted or grounded something in the wiring, but that should have blown a fuse or been obvious in some way. Again, we checked the fuses in the engine compartment and under the dash but all were good and none were marked for the windows or heater fan.
So my question is: where are the fuses for the power windows and heater fan in a 2005 neon? Is there a common fuse or relay associated with both windows and fan? Am I missing something here? I have been on-line all morning searching for a wiring diagram for this car but cannot find anything.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks everyone
My name is Dave
davenkids2001@yahoo.com
My son purchased this car last week with 43K miles from a dealer neaby (Ann Arbor). Anyway, he decided he wanted to install a sub-woofer(?) in his trunk. He and a friend, who has installed several of these things before, installed the unit by, apparently, tapping off the existing radio to a relay and running a new power cable directly to the battery. Everything seemed fine until he tried to close his driver's side window. There was no power. He tried his RF door window and found no power there either. Later he also found that his heater fan was also inoperable.
He took his car back to the fly-by-night dealer (he had it only 7 days) and asked them to repair the problem. He has a 30 day warranty but the dealer told him that since he had added the subwoffer that he had voided the warrenty and therefore he wouldn't honor the warrenty!!!
After telling me about the problem I asked him if he had disconnected the battery BEFORE installing the woofer and he says yes he did (But I am doubtful). We checked all the fuses that we could find but all are good. We could not locate any fuse or relay that were marked "Power Windows" or "Heater fan" so we don't know what to do next. I checked the wiring that was installed for the woofer but could not see anything obviously wrong and I am doubtful that the installation of this unit would have created this problem. I am worried however that if this work was done while the battery was connected that he could have shorted or grounded something in the wiring, but that should have blown a fuse or been obvious in some way. Again, we checked the fuses in the engine compartment and under the dash but all were good and none were marked for the windows or heater fan.
So my question is: where are the fuses for the power windows and heater fan in a 2005 neon? Is there a common fuse or relay associated with both windows and fan? Am I missing something here? I have been on-line all morning searching for a wiring diagram for this car but cannot find anything.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks everyone
My name is Dave
davenkids2001@yahoo.com
