smoking civic

[kasper01001]

I put the broken command logic lights on this civic and wit it on, I started striping the wire of the command logic lights and started puting them in the little spot were they were pulled out off i manage to make it work, but I started noticeing that smoke started to come out off the car and freaked me out!!! I took the lights out and openned it again, no smoke but now it has a major stutter problem when I run it wat whent wrong?!?!

[theMonster]

Sounds like you shorted the antennea. Try leaving the lights out and make sure the antennea wire is soldered onto the little clip at the base of the antennea well and then make sure that the antenna, the wire and the clip at the bottom of the antennea is not touching anything metal. If all of the above looks okay, box it back up and head back to radioshack. They're pretty understanding of things and when you tell them that the lights shorted something out, they'll probably exchange it for you as long as you haven't hacked up the inners like me

[kasper01001]

there's no other way to fix it?

[theMonster]

But you don't want to put another 27MHZ FM transmitter in there, do you?

[kasper01001]

dang, cuz i bought this from a kid for 20 bucks and it came in a grocery bag and in pieces , IDK if i can get a reciept and the box from him, would RS take it back even though It was bought from another store?

[theMonster]

on my grandpa....LOL

No, seriously, depends on if he's a (BC EDIT: Word removed), if it's over 90 days and if it's been tore up.

BC EDIT: Watch the language please.

**Sorry, I didn't realize that was a forbidden word** let me rephrase that as "it depends if the RS manager is a jerk"

[kasper01001]

o well, it was 20 bucks anyways

[aperson]

do a search for "Extended Range?" for a possible fix. it worked for me if thats your problem.

[kasper01001]

OK i openned it up, there is nothing there that looks fried, the green transmitters arent' black, so wat can it be?

[theMonster]

Many times you can't tell if something is fried just by looking at it. If it's real bad then there will be black marks around it etc...but if it's a a mild short, then you can't tell by looking at it.

[kasper01001]

...so ur telling me there's no other way how to fix this piece of thing that doesn't even deserve to be called crap?

[aero528]

calm down! you say the steering is stutering, right?? if it is you might do well to get a new servo. i am not sure if that will work but it might be worth a try.

[kasper01001]

well not jst the steering, u knoe how ur xmod stutters when u play with it w/o the antenna on the controller? like that I kept thinking its about the antenna, but now I jst don't knoe wats wrong with it....

[kasper01001]

hey this morning i was thinking off something....why don't I jst buy another one, swap chassis, bring it back and exchange for another one!!!! two birds with one stone!!!!!!!! I can get two(2) Xmods with the sacrifice of one...... >:} hehehehehehehehehe think of the posibilities....