Back on Monday, due to the massively cold temperatures outside (it was
-26C, -42C with the wind), the windshield on my Tribeca cracked. Nothing huge, so I took it to the auto glass place the next day. They were done in a few hours, and when I picked the car back up, I noticed that my stereo was not working and the climate control display no longer showed anything! I took it back to the auto glass place, and they tested out its fuses to see if any had burned out: nothing had. So they couldn't figure out why the stereo and climate control stopped working. They suggested that maybe some condensation happened on the electrical wires, because it came from a cold place to a warm place in the garage, and that they thought it might come back on its own. They suggested I wait 2 days to see if it comes back, and then if it doesn't I should take it to the dealership. So it didn't come back on its own, so I went down to the dealership and had them take a look at it.
The dealership looked at it for about 3 hours+, before they figured it out. Some wires had burned crispy together, right *behind* the fuse box. They cut and replaced the wires, and everything is back now. Now why the wires had shorted instead of blowing out the fuses is completely unknown. Anybody ever seen this happen?
Now, the auto glass people took responsibility and paid for the dealership visit, so no complaints there. The problem apparently happened when the auto glass people plugged in the new windshield's wiper heater elements into the car.
Yousuf Khan