No Indicators/Wipers

[rhyno]

Thanks Gav,

I've got plenty of good cable here, i'm a switchboard builder and have thousands of meters of high quality flex cable, bushes, fuses, joiners, and tools.
I don't think that the problem lies within the Stereo/wiring itself. I believe in adding the ACC i have damaged something else, however i will be checking the lot.

Thanks for your help, i'll keep you updated as to the progress/cause.

Regards,
Ryan

[rhyno]

OK,
Checked all fuses in the fuse box with a multi meter, all are fine.
Checked the two large 15A blade fuses above the relay rack, these are fine(BTW, what are they for?)
I notice that (from left to right) i have two relays, then a gap then another relay, then a double relay. The gap has a socket there (ie not unused). Is something missing? What is it?
Whilst i am learning the electrics of my car; what are the relays functions? I can't seem to find any documentation on this model.

I honestly don't think the wiring in the stereo is the fault, let me explain why:
When i bought it, the head unit was installed (badly). It has a remote "brains" unit which was located in the first aid compartment. The head unit had power, the brains did not. The speaker cables were all located in the boot. Two amps were loose in the boot for me to "just connect up". There was no feed of constant power, not acc in the boot. I ran a 10mm2 flex cable straight from the battery via an inline fuse to the boot and split it to feed the constant on the 'brains' and the amps. I ran out of time at this point and tapped in to the constant and bridged to the acc terminal on the amp via a switch. The sound system worked. (except for all the wires in the splits which had come loose, but that is a story for another day).
I still had Wipers, I still had Indicators.

Come Sunday morning i had time to run an accessories feed to the boot. I used the fused side of the bottom middle fuse. This turned on and off the head unit when i pulled it in and out, so i thought i'd continue to use this for sound accessories.

This is when my problems, as described above, started.

[rhyno]

It's all sorted now.

Behind the fuse panel there were two standard VW wires, joined together to a retrofitted in line fuse, which i assumed fed power to the amps or something. I removed the inline fuse and joined the two wires together.
That inline fuse was feeding power, not taking power. I have no idea why this is the case, but it is. So we have given it power and put it happily back in the fusebox.

ahhhh, all happy.

Thanks for everyones help by the way.

[gavs]

Glad it all worked out rhyno!

Welcome to the forum by the way!