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So I have a 98 civic ex and I've had this problem since yesterday. Basically whenever I play music, after awhile I smell this weird smell coming from the back of my car. I know it's coming from my system cause when I don't play music I don't ever smell anything. I can't really describe the smell, but it's like a burning smell. So I went and popped the trunk open and tried tracing where the smell is coming from. I found out the smell is strongest where the ground wire is connected to the car. I checked all the wires and none of them are loose cause I have them connected to the spade connectors. The ground wire is fine so I really don't know where this smell is coming from. Any ideas?

 
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Is it grounded well? Did this just start happening or has the system been in the car for a while?

I wouldn't use your radio until it is fixed. Did you check speaker wires? The power wire that goes to the battery?

 
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yea it's grounded pretty good and I've had the system for awhile too. Everything was fine until yesterday. Speaker wires are good as well. Didn't check the power wire though.

 
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Use your fingers and FEEL the wire/ends/crimps/connection areas (after you start smelling the stink of course).

Points of high resistance and poor connections will get HOT, these need to be corrected.

 
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^^

If somethings getting hot enough to smell it'll be super hot. Like ezone said just touch everything when you start to smell it. Do you have a fuse at the battery from your power lead to the amp? If not the whole length of that wire could be suspect as well.

 
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Do you have 2 or 3 way speakers in the rear? If so, sounds like the capacitor in the crossover is going out.