is this true?

[saintluey 10+ year member]

i heard racing could damage ur heads unit, i found this out when i was out buying a new h/u/ for my vehicle and the salesman told me this certain radio there was equipped with some thing that would lower the volume on itself if i speeded too high, sounds weird to me, is it true? if so can someone explain? thkz.

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[sungwei 10+ year member]

I think he was just trying to discourage you from speeding. Why would a company spend money putting technology into some useless feature like that? I know there are systems that come equip with certain cars that turn the volume up as you increase speed to compensate for road noise, but not the other way around.

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

sounds like the salesman doesn't know what he's talking about...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[deadboi77 10+ year member]

my girls parents just bought a new trailblazer and the stock system lowers the volume when you slow down but thats just stock bs

 

[VisionxOrb 10+ year member]

i heard racing could damage ur heads unit,.

only if you crash

 

[mac2118 10+ year member]

well, my friends '04 monte has that where when you speed up it'll raise in volume, and when you slow down it'll lower

the only way I can see your head unit being damaged from racing would be if there was a sudden voltage drop that caused a short somewhere... and your fuse would blow, so you'd just have to fix the fuse.. no biggy realy..

but yeah.. that's about it..

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

well, my friends '04 monte has that where when you speed up it'll raise in volume, and when you slow down it'll lower

My dad's '96 GMC Serria has that feature.

 

[pj_chevy03 10+ year member]

i hate that feature where it lowers the volume when u slow down...if it did that in my truck it would drive me f'n crazy...

 

[phrozen5100 10+ year member]

My brother just got a Pioneer DEH-7500 and it has a feature that raises volume when you just increase RPMs and vice versa. He was able to turn it off, though...good thing considering he drives a manual. So yeah, that salesman doesn't really know what he's talking about it seems...

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

should just be a simple matter of disconnecting a speed sensor to the head unit if you have it...

 

[Sleeklsc 5,000+ posts]

or this guy could have just got confused on what the salesman said? most likely its what u guys have been saying...my jvc had that but i never used it..

 

[Nikuk 5,000+ posts]

my girls parents just bought a new trailblazer and the stock system lowers the volume when you slow down but thats just stock bs

you can turn this feature off. the {Auto Vol} button. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[Phatillusion 5,000+ posts]

My pioneer deck had that stupid feature. It adjusts the volume based on the noise surrounding your vehicle. Took me a while to figure out why the hell the volume kept adjusting itself.