Ford Explorer keeps dying with new Stereo.

[Damian Anthony Lohrenz]

Nooooo, you should never cut factory harness.

you can do what you want, if you know how to do it.

car keeps dying yet you "made sure" you wired everything correctly.......

does the HU stay on with the car off?

I've asked him that. He said no. Thats the first question I asked him.

[crispy_chick3n]

grey/black on factory side of harness. unless the schematic is wrong that is the only wire that could even cause an issue like you are describing, unless you have a positive grounded out, but i would think you would know if that were the case

[Jessica]

One wire is acc the other is memory. If only have one wire hooked up the deck won't work.

Basically one wire is constant power/ memory

The other Is switched so the deck will shut off with the key and not drain the battery.

[dkindle613]

Pop the hood... On the drivers side there should a black fuse/ relay box towards the firewall. Open that and look and make sure all of the small light blue fuses are good and not burnt. I had the same problem in my 03. I had a shop hook up my deck, and they did something wrong and one of those fuses fried, but did not blow. My truck would not completely die, but would spit and sputter like it wanted to die.The mechanic shop told me 2 wires were switched.. it may not be the same in your situation, but its something simple to trouble shoot.

[Soccerballzs]

Is the battery up to par on charge no bad cells?

[Damian Anthony Lohrenz]

Ok, so the battery should be fine. Its odd that it takes a complete night of sitting before it wont start, Their are no bad circuits.

[jarrius]

Not trying to be a dick but you say should thus leaves me to believe that you are doing nothing about the problem but shooting down what we are telling you to check. Have you checked anything we have told you or are you just saying i did it so its fine/ i did the work so its not the problem.

[Damian Anthony Lohrenz]

No no, Battery is fine. I didn't phrase it correctly. All circuits are fine. Their is however a connector I just left sitting out since the factory radio had two plug ins, one for the harness part and the other for I'm not sure. I left it sit on the side. I started everything up, and everything worked great so I figured that connector wasn't needed I also figured since he bought a connector for the car itself that if that one plug laying on the side had to be connected to something it would of came with something for it. But it didn't, another reason why I just left it sit on the side.

The one that's not connected is what I'm talking about.

[Damian Anthony Lohrenz]

P.S I did NOT hook up the Antenna, or remote for the guide I used said not to for a ford explorer.

[Aj11]

not sure if it was mentioned but does his car have a alarm. i remember my boy having a similar problem. he took his stock deck out and it tripped some kind of safety thing, car thought it was being broke into. I'm having a brain fart on what it's called. anti theft device that's it! (5 minutes of starting blankly at my phone!) but yea his car wouldn't start after he had to reset a code.