Look what I found when installing my lockpick today. This wire on the stereo harness had NO shielding on it. The factory put a bare wire into the harness then wrapped electrical tape around it. Never seen anything like it. I'm screwed to get it fixed too because you have to replace the whole electrical harness to fix it which would mean taking out the entire dash. I threw some more electrical tape on it and put it back. Can't even tell the dealer about it because I am sure they would blame me for doing it. It works though so not going to stress over it. Just thought I would share this.
Mine was the EXACT same way when I took my head unit out to install the lockpic. I was shocked to see it in that condition. What is your build date? Mine was February 2011
I would think the loom is made by another company, as they only assemble the car, not make the all parts. More likely some other muppet in another factory, mode likely another country.
Hmmm... aren't a lot of us having issues with our Nav systems dumping home addresses and such?... I would guess an errant 12V or missing ground could cause problems with all kinds of things.
I'd be curious to know exactly what is going through that connector.
The RHR dumping presets and addresses hasalready been connected to the multiple seat setting buttons so I Highly doubt this has any thing to do with that problem.
To apply heat shrink tubing you would have to remove the wire and reconnect it. Not an option as there is very little space to work in and I didn't want to get into a situation where I yanked it out and it wouldn't go back in for some reason. I don't know what liquid electrical tape is but I had the car all apart and had to come up with a simple solution. I also forgot to mention that the harness farther up had cut and scrape marks in it. Pretty shoddy IMHO.