Buzzing sound in passenger side door?

[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.

[logan5]

Thanks a lot for all the info guys. I returned my stereo and will be purchasing another soon. When I do I'll follow your advice mdwyer...

Area 51, I'll check where those wires go and post. I'm a little nervous about the TOD now. Is it any indication that it's working if when I put it into low all the lights come on for the TOD and I get more power (ie: going up a hill)? I've put my VX in low when I couldn't climb a hill in high and the low worked as just described. How do I know if the high is working? I drove in a lot of rain and I don't remember the TOD lights all coming on, only the lower rung of lights remained lit. I know the power gets distributed as needed and I'm wondering when the 2nd or 3rd rung of TOD lights are supposed to come on...Is there any way of testing this? Reason I need to know is that if somehow the TOD is screwy then nothing I do will fix the problem. Again, when I remove the relay the light comes on so finding out if my TOD is OK I think would be a good place to start. Thanks a lot guys!

Raque Thomas: I will definitely download the manuals you suggested. Also, I tried replacing the relay and it makes the same noise so it must not be broken.