Hey all

 

My radio is doing strange things, It starts and then dies, if I pull the 10 amp fuse out of the car under steering wheel it comes back to life as soon as I turn it on and start the radio it dies again? If I chnage it for a 15 amp fuse if lasts longer but eventually dies as well?

 

Any ideas?

Sounds like you got a short somewere. You are saying when you take the fuse out the radio then turns on :S or do you mean you take it out then put it back in???

Take it out, put it back in and then it comes back on

Take it out, put it back in and then it comes back on

 

Do you have a stereo converter for the wires or are all your wires broken and taped together??

 

Personnally if my radio was doing that i would try a friends and see if that resloves the problem

Hey mate its a converter job

 

You think its more likely to be the radio then? Has been working fine unitil today was turning up the volume and it died then got home pulled the fuse out, put it back in and fine played for a few mins and then died again???

 

I'll try another HU Ive got a spare somewhere.

 

Cheers

Ok when you tested your other headunit post agian on here :D

could be a bad earth (most likely), a short somewhere (but this would normally pop the fuse) or your head unit is overheating and shutting down to prevent damage.

 

As above try another head unit and post results :)

 

HTH

 

Tony

could be a bad earth (most likely), a short somewhere (but this would normally pop the fuse) or your head unit is overheating and shutting down to prevent damage.

 

As above try another head unit and post results :)

 

HTH

 

Tony

 

True point there, are all your screws screwed in to the dash because the top 2 screws create an earth connection, you will see this as sometimes it sparks as you put the screw back in :P

i had this problem, i just took a feed direct from the batterys pos and neg and its been fine for the past 3 years.

Ok tried another HU and it worked just fine

 

I noticed that my boost and turbo timer power feeds are wired into the loom that fed the old radio.

 

Changed to 15 amp fuse and its now behaving the same as the 10amp one?? So the power is getting there no problem but the radio just turns off and refuses to turn on again has worked fine for about 2 months although a turbo timer was fitted last weekend?? wonder if thats the problem?

 

I can feel some wiring coming on!

Run an earth wire from chassis of radio to a good earth chassis point on car

 

Paul.

behind the stereo there is a big nut with a spade connector attached to it (well, there was on mine) , i've relocted the radio earth to there and it works fine. Any of those nuts will do fine just make sure there's some exposed metal for a good connection

Hey guys

 

Ran the earth to the nut on the right hand side and left all the other earth cables on the one on the left and it seems to be cool now! I even seem to have developed some new menus! Bonus!!

 

Thanks for the advice guys your all awesome!!

Glad you got it fixed ;)

Hey guys not fixed!!

 

I have found though that if I take the earth off the connector the radio still goes? Can it be that it doent need one from the adapter? I'll leave it like this and see if it causes a problem.