Buzzing sound in passenger side door?

[logan5]

OK etlsport (and fellow VXers), I FINALLY have been able to get the photo up, sorry it took so long! I'm in the process of moving and things have been VERY hectic here. Here's what I wrote in the photo regarding the relay / TOD problem and a link to the photo:
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/sh...00&ppuser=2889

"I bought my VX with an aftermarket stereo already installed. The original cd player wasn't connected but still remained in the dash. I had a nasty buzzing sound which I was able to figure out was coming from this relay connected to my tod box under the passenger seat. When I disconnect the relay the TOD check light comes on. It seems the TOD is drawing power from the relay. The 2 red circles indicate where the relay is connected. The black is a ground and the white is connected to the VX's blue TOD wire. I think the original stereo gave power to the TOD and now a relay has to be in place in order for the TOD to get power. I WANT TO DISCONNECT THE RELAY! I've tried everything to make it silent but I CAN"T GET IT TO BE MORE QUIET no matter how much I wrap it up!!! It has to go! I'm planning on installing a new stereo so maybe I can use IT to give power to the TOD instead of the relay. Right now I don't have a stereo installed..."

[etlsport]

im going to go out on a limb and guess thats not factory... i have been down there on my vx and havent seen anything like that.. i would try to trace where all of the wires go and see if there is a switch or something used to turn the tod on and off.. do you have a 4wd switch on your dashboard somewhere? VXs don't come with them from the factory, if you do maybe someone who has done this mod can shed some light on what the problem is/how it works

if it were me, i would remove the relay and reattach the wires that come out of the tod harness to their matching counterpart going to the rest of the vehicle.. namely the light blue wire which is the reason your tod starts flashing when you pulled that relay

[etlsport]

your stereo and your tod really shouldnt have anything to do with each other.. i dont know who would have put that in there connected to the stereo... or why

[logan5]

Thanks for replying. The relay is attached to the blue wire like a parasite. The blue wire is still plugged into to BorgWerner amp and then disappears underneath the carpet. The plastic is cut away exposing the wire and the relay is attached there. This is really hard to explain but I am doing my best I will try to follow the wire to see where it leads but don't know if I'll have much luck. It looks to me as though there used to be something attached to the relay like a swich or GPS or something and now is gone.

[Raque Thomas]

Borg Warner is the manufacturer of the TOD system, not an amp. It was mentioned in earlier threads on this site that to rig up a system to turn the TOD on and off it involved cutting the light blue wire coming from the TOD computer under the passenger seat. As was earlier theorized, I think the previous owner of your VX had installed a TOD cut off switch. You can go to Tone's site linked from this site and download the workshop manual, which has electrical diagrams. It may be a whole lot easier to just take the relay to an electronics place to match it up, and then hook it back up as it was using a new (and non-buzzing) relay. Good luck, and let us know how it turns out!

[AREA 51]

It looks like the relay is shunting the tod wire. To where, I can't tell, from the picture.

It may be that this relay is wired to circumvent the tod warning light.

Did your tod system ever function properly?

I see other wires in your picture. A yellow and another with a solderless connector. Where do those wires go?

I'd suggest removing the silver splice connector on the blue- blue- white wires and then make a good splice of the blue- blue wires, eliminating the white wire that appears to be tapped off of and NOT interrupting the blue tod wire. You should then be able to remove the relay with no adverse effects on the tod system.

[mdwyer]

By the way, I might know why your stereo won't work: The ground wire in the radio harness isn't connected to anything. The (-) power lead to the stereo goes through the frame -- not the harness.

I yanked my stock radio, plugged in the new one and it didn't work! So I plugged the stock radio back in, and IT didn't work anymore! At this point, I just gave up and decided to stuff everything back into the dash and get help.

As soon as the stock radio grounded itself to frame, it kicked on!

Once I ran a pigtail from some grounded metal to the radio, the new stereo worked great! Hopefully, your problem is just as simple.