A good install gone bad

[RcRacerDrew 10+ year member]

Well guys i know this isnt the headunit forum but i just need a quick fix and i know theres alot more traffic on here. Sorry Anyway...I put a headunit in my girlfreinds 97 taurus ( if any of you have tried any sort of car audio mod to a taurus you know the extremes i went through) and it went in fine. That was sunday, today shes showing it to some of her freinds at the high school and its working great, she gets in the car, turns it on and i guess it just shut down. No illumination, no nothing on the HU (its an older kenwood i got from a freind for $50). She brought it over and i checked to make sure everything was still grounded ok, and that no fuses were blown. Everything checked out but still no signs of life. Anyone know what to try now? Ive put in all sorts of headunits for my freinds and nothing like this has ever happend. Any ideas would be great! Thank you all!

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[lcpunk69 10+ year member]

Invest more money and buy a decent Headunit? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[RcRacerDrew 10+ year member]

haha real funny. Good point...were both 16 and i got it for her for her birthday and put it in...i was givin myself props till it quit workin:banghead: .....maybe i should just install my alpine IVA801 and dolby digital/EQ in her car? RIGHT!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[lcpunk69 10+ year member]

*Nods*//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif Girlfriends are expensive...

 

[RcRacerDrew 10+ year member]

FO SHO!

 

[bumpin_blazer 5,000+ posts]

yeah i know my g/f is like all i really want for my car is an aftermarket stereo. anyone on here who knows me knows i love my stuff so i gotta get hooked up on somethin nice for her i just have no idea what. prolly like a pioneer 7400 or 6400. yes they are expensive though even if they don't wanna be!!!!!!

adam

 

[hogger 5,000+ posts]

Ive got a friend whos Kenwood just died one day too, wierdest thing, we couldnt figure it out.

 

[bumpin_blazer 5,000+ posts]

oh yeah i forgot to say, now you know why i won't buy kenwood. i think they **** in my opinion!

adam

 

[lcpunk69 10+ year member]

now that I think about I have a friend who has a kenwood, it turns on but doesnt do anything //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

You think they are expensive now. Wait until you marry one of them //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[xxsaintdawgxx 10+ year member]

did you check the fuses under the dash because the same thing happened to me and the fuse that was poped was my tail light fuse and when i replaced it everything worked fine just an idea though

 

[Corsica 5,000+ posts]

I was gonna say check all fuses and worst comes to worst, bench test tha HU and see what tha deal is.

J

 

[swimfreak26 10+ year member]

I used to have a kenwood HU, and it used to quit working once in a while. Try taking off the trim, and pushing the faceplate in...push hard and even to make sure that the whole thing is connected....they don't like to work without every little connection made.

 

[RcRacerDrew 10+ year member]

shes telling me now that the door open chime sometimes comes on periodically now when shes jus driving down the road with the headunit off. This is making me think that there could be some kind of electrical short wich is very strange. Any ideas?

 

[Wonderbread 5,000+ posts]

hrm...

forgetting for aminute the door chime..

did you check under the hood for a second fuse box?

rip out that HU, check the pwoer wires for power..

if there is no power, check out fora second fuse box, my cougar had one, we spent an hour and nearly chucked out my clarion when that stupid 15A thing under hte hood popped, lol.