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Audio wire hooked into BCM bus line? Problem?
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<blockquote data-quote="john.mulvehill" data-source="post: 7047923" data-attributes="member: 625086"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>I had a car audio shop hook the orange audio wire into the green body control module data bus line wire. I have a 2008 Pontiac G8 GT. My car was fine for 2 years while running a 550 watt RMS amplifier. I recently upgraded to a JL 1000/1 1,000 watt amp and I had an issue where all the warning lights went on on my dash. The dealership ended up charging me $400 to diagnose the problem which turned out to be just resetting the ECM. However, they wouldn't warranty the service on the car due to the fact that there was an audio wire hooked to the BCM. I went back to the audio shop and tried to get compensation in the amount of $400 for their installer hooking up my audio wire to the BCM.</p><p></p><p>However, the audio shop is claiming that the orange wire hooked into the BCM shouldn't cause any issue. My theory is that higher amperage draw of the JL 1000/1 screwed with the other car systems interfacing with the BCM and it wasn't an issue with the lower powered amplifier that I used to run. Is the audio shop responsible here? Is it a huge no no to tap the audio wire into the data bus line of a Body Control Module? Do I have any recourse to come back at the dealership?</p><p></p><p>Any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I got screwed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="john.mulvehill, post: 7047923, member: 625086"] Hello, I had a car audio shop hook the orange audio wire into the green body control module data bus line wire. I have a 2008 Pontiac G8 GT. My car was fine for 2 years while running a 550 watt RMS amplifier. I recently upgraded to a JL 1000/1 1,000 watt amp and I had an issue where all the warning lights went on on my dash. The dealership ended up charging me $400 to diagnose the problem which turned out to be just resetting the ECM. However, they wouldn't warranty the service on the car due to the fact that there was an audio wire hooked to the BCM. I went back to the audio shop and tried to get compensation in the amount of $400 for their installer hooking up my audio wire to the BCM. However, the audio shop is claiming that the orange wire hooked into the BCM shouldn't cause any issue. My theory is that higher amperage draw of the JL 1000/1 screwed with the other car systems interfacing with the BCM and it wasn't an issue with the lower powered amplifier that I used to run. Is the audio shop responsible here? Is it a huge no no to tap the audio wire into the data bus line of a Body Control Module? Do I have any recourse to come back at the dealership? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I got screwed. [/QUOTE]
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