Joshua asked for "thoughts", and that's what I supplied. Look again, there's some good advice in what I posted: a warning/lesson to others to disconnect the battery when doing electrical or mechanical work, information on how to really check a fuse, information not to forget the fusible links too, information to post year/model/etc. as some of us are not good mind readers.
I realize our culture has evolved to "don't offend anyone, everybody gets a trophy". I understand that everyone doesn't have Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, too; I've had bosses in the past tell me to sugarcoat things too, not to be direct. That's not really my style, sorry if I offended Joshua and the moderator. By the way, Mr. Moderator: your site is the slowest of all of any that I've visited, can you help with that? Please (I said please).
Well, sometimes it's raining, and if you don't come in out of the rain, you'll get wet. Period. I'm glad Joshua got things working going, hope he soldered/used heat shrink tubing the wires to the stereo instead of using crimp connectors....