Weird Noise Coming From My "Speedo"
02-21-2009, 11:30 PM
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Weird Noise Coming From My "Speedo" Alright there has been a very strang electric noise coming from my speedo area. It has to be electrical because I popped my engine to see if it could be my engine but it wasnt. It sounds like static coming from a radio. Never heard anything like this before and a little worried. It's not coming from my speakers and it's whenever Im in idle and the it gets louder when I turn the AC down/off. Any info would be great, thanks
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Now that i think of it, I had a similar problem (sorta). On nice days when i drove a lot, not necessarily hard, but for a few hours or so city driving, a very loud hissing noise like speaker sound came from the back. At first I thought the speakers were blown, even though it made it when radio was off, but it wasnt coming from them. I then thought it was muffler since if i took out key it stopped but then i found it did it if i turned off engine but left keys in it still went. Was coming from driver rear wheel somewhere. Never found out what.
Just something for you to check. See if its coming from around the front wheel.
Just something for you to check. See if its coming from around the front wheel.
02-22-2009, 09:23 AM
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If you have the stock monsoon HU and amp, there might be some signal going to the amp causing it to be turned on even if the HU is off. I found this out the hard way when installing a new HU keeping the stock monsoon amp connected. I foolishly messed with the adapter because I wasn't getting the new HU to work, only to find that I had the wires connected incorrectly. With the messed up adapter, with no HU connected to the wiring harness, when I moved the harness around, I got staticy noise coming from several of the speakers - that's when I found out that I screwed up the adapter. One way to determine if this is the cause of your problem is to pull the amp fuse from the fusebox - if its coming from the amp, this should stop it.
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Now that i think of it, I had a similar problem (sorta). On nice days when i drove a lot, not necessarily hard, but for a few hours or so city driving, a very loud hissing noise like speaker sound came from the back. At first I thought the speakers were blown, even though it made it when radio was off, but it wasnt coming from them. I then thought it was muffler since if i took out key it stopped but then i found it did it if i turned off engine but left keys in it still went. Was coming from driver rear wheel somewhere. Never found out what.
Just something for you to check. See if its coming from around the front wheel.
Just something for you to check. See if its coming from around the front wheel.
If you have the stock monsoon HU and amp, there might be some signal going to the amp causing it to be turned on even if the HU is off. I found this out the hard way when installing a new HU keeping the stock monsoon amp connected. I foolishly messed with the adapter because I wasn't getting the new HU to work, only to find that I had the wires connected incorrectly. With the messed up adapter, with no HU connected to the wiring harness, when I moved the harness around, I got staticy noise coming from several of the speakers - that's when I found out that I screwed up the adapter. One way to determine if this is the cause of your problem is to pull the amp fuse from the fusebox - if its coming from the amp, this should stop it.