my car stereo catch on fire
 

I'm not sure what went wrong,everything was working fine and yesterday im driving and the stereo turns off and it starts to smell like something was burning i was think it might it be a fuse...and on a red light the smell was getting stronger so i pulled over and what do you know my stereo was on fire...lmao i had a gallon of water and dump it on the stereo and where the stereo goes.... what went wrong?

probably got to hot, if your running a 1000 watt amp on a 200 watt woofer its bound to happen. lol.

but im guessing maybe you blew a fuse.

but i dnt have a system or nothing its just a alpine deck it was installed like 8 9 months ago

Thats kinda crazy, I would think that fuses would blow before it caught on fire.......

well bad wiring can also cause a fire, maybe since the weather got hot it might've moved the tape on the wiring. Or if you didn't use the black electrical tape, and you used masking tape for your wires the tape could catch fire.

Must have been bumpin some hot shit

pm if you need this fixed...i do electrical repairs

i dont know, maybe an exposed wire. How is the power wire connected? electical tape or heat shrink tape or capped then taped. you need to remember with the weather heating up electical tape starts to give as it gets warmer so ine the end it may have been an exposed power wire that caused this.

ground wire might have come lose happened to me before

I agree with the crappy install theory, bad wiring will ALWAYS start a fire.

Shurrre!!! throwing water on an electrical fire is the smartest thing to do!!!

Lol his cluster and shit wont work next i bet

Thats why i dont use cheap tape, and who installed the deck??

The fuse should of blown to prevent the fire!!

solder and heat shrink every time :)

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I always do!

or if you go to fastenal they can order in un-insulated crimp connectors, and then you crimp, and heatshrink :)

for a deck install i prefer insulated crimp caps w/ a good set of crimpers
a very strong connection, i have never been able to pull one apart...

if everything was connected to stock wiring i would call it a bad deck, but i would suspect more that there was some "extra wiring" back there that was causing some problems.
another thing is you might have a shorted speaker wire, sometimes the deck will still play but it will overheat the internal amp.

either way i would take it to someone that knows what they are doing, blownspeakerbox seems to have some good references from what i see, and have them check out the install and put in a new deck for you. if you just replace the deck it might just happen again.

I guess this is all personal preference, cause I wouldn't ever use a crimp cap, solder and heat shrink for me everytime.

But on a flip side I've seen a ton of stereo shops use crimp caps. Worked fine for years but.. . . . . :ugly:

Ground

interesting =b

LOL! post spamming has reached new levels!

crossed wires

ya when i pulled my deck out to put my alpine in the wires were so nigger rigged im suprised it didnt catch fire luckily i know how to wire

That sucks man I have only had my sound system installed once and watched how they did it. Now I will be the only one to touch my sound system. I prefer to set it up the way I want.

nigger rigged...lol

fuse should have blown unless the fuse is too big