I am driving along and hit a radio preset button and the thing just shut off! It came back on eventually, but this has just started happening and is happening more and more. What could be causing this? Also, it happened with no bass playing, so it wasn't like a CD was playing and stopped playing. This has happened recently with the CD playing and tracking up and when hitting a preset button and the power cuts off, then back on. Occasionally the radio will shut off if I hit a bump.
The problem I describe at first happened while the car was running, but not traveling in motion, so no bumps caused it to cut off. Do I need a new head unit?? This never happened before.
Lastly, this may have nothing to do with it, but I disconnected speaker wires of all my highs and put it on the big amp and switched RCAs on the crossover (having nothing to do with the head unit). I hit the power button on after cranking up the car and the **** wouldn't cut on! After the 3rd time I hit the button it still didn't cut on and finally after removing and re-attaching the faceplate it came back on, but when I hit a radio preset button, it cut off again.
None of the memory of the presets were lost. Before this problem, the faceplate was already on (so it wasn't like I put it on wrong when I got in the car).
Now every thing is working fine, so problem is
intermittent but occuring more often now than ever!!
Don't fail me now ALPINE!!! It's an older unit I got in the mid 90's when 4V preouts first came out and was repaired once for not playing CDs and worked fine until now.
(Is it still alive?!)
The problem I describe at first happened while the car was running, but not traveling in motion, so no bumps caused it to cut off. Do I need a new head unit?? This never happened before.
Lastly, this may have nothing to do with it, but I disconnected speaker wires of all my highs and put it on the big amp and switched RCAs on the crossover (having nothing to do with the head unit). I hit the power button on after cranking up the car and the **** wouldn't cut on! After the 3rd time I hit the button it still didn't cut on and finally after removing and re-attaching the faceplate it came back on, but when I hit a radio preset button, it cut off again.
None of the memory of the presets were lost. Before this problem, the faceplate was already on (so it wasn't like I put it on wrong when I got in the car).
Now every thing is working fine, so problem is
intermittent but occuring more often now than ever!!
Don't fail me now ALPINE!!! It's an older unit I got in the mid 90's when 4V preouts first came out and was repaired once for not playing CDs and worked fine until now.
(Is it still alive?!)
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