driving gf to work this morning, a few crackles from the speakers, nothing....., a few more crackles and a weired burning smell, pull over and POP! a large white cloud of smoke from drivers side foot well, turned car off and sussed it all out, couldnt find anything wrong, got home and pulled out the head unit and everything seems to be fine, car runs fine, radio works fine... somethings shorted out...but what.

your going to have to get in there and find out what is burnt looking.

get a fire extinguiser too! :P

Windows work? got indicators on your mirrors?

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the front left speaker doesnt work.

might be a 'pinched wire' in the door somewhere?

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I would say probably a pack of rogue huntsman spiders under your dash didn't like your choice of music and set fire to your stereo...

Agree with Simon...I had the same problem with my RX7 quite a few years back, a wire got pinched and shorted against a metal part of the dash, and a similar thing happened.

You might also find some of the wiring is toast.

so they have left my car then orsm

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is the speaker wires factory or have u run ones from an amp ? u need to trace each one back to u find the burn mark. and yes have a fire ext it could have been worse.

hopefully its only speaker wire. dimmer switches and other things sit behind the glovebox so it can't be these.
the switchgear for the dash is expensive too $300 for some of them.

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