Stock radio will not turn on

[TalonTurbo92]

Well, for the past year, or so, my radio has been acting up. It started to just shut off when I would go over a bump. So to fix it, I would hit my dash, and it would work again. For the last month or so, it has been worse. It crackles often, and hitting the dash does not turn it on. So tonight I took it the radio out to such the fuse on the back of the unit. It was fine. I than checked the fuse in the fuse box and that was fine. I than decided if there was power in the wiring harness, and there was. I than ran a wire from the hot terminal to there it is on the head unit and ran another wire to a ground, and there was nothing. I remebered i had an old tape deck from another car and i wired that up from the harness and to a ground, and it worked.

One thing that I figured was that i was not getting a good ground on the stock head unit. I was wondering how I could fix it? How is the head unit grounded?

I put a lot of miles on my car on the weekends, and sick of having a sucky radio.

 

[Defiant]

The stock radios ground through the chassis, to the mounts, to the frame. Try using a small screwdriver to gently bend the prongs on the radio so that they'll have a stronger contact with the sockets of the factory plug, and stop playing that annoying bumpy-bump music so damned loud.

 

[TalonTurbo92]

Thanks for the help. But I am a bit confused at what prongs you are talking about. Are you talking about the prongs on the mounting bracket?

And about the bumpy bump music so loud, I got rid of that 3 years ago. I would rather hear the car most of the time.

 

[luv2rallye]

... and stop playing that annoying bumpy-bump music so damned loud.

It's nice to know Defiant always has the consistant answer. !

 

[n0c7]

What I did to make sure my ground was fully functional was put a terminal end on the ground wire coming from the head unit harness and ground it to the chassis. I never have any grounding issues. Originally I only did it because I was servicing the CD player and didnt have an inverter so it was just easier to have the deck in my lap and have the new ground wire screwed down. This may help you if it is infact a ground issue.

 

[TalonTurbo92]

Well over the weekend I had my radio in to get checked out. It turns out that there were some internal parts that needed to be soddered back together. I hope that it takes care of the problem. I will put it in tonight and see once if it got fixed right.

 

[Defiant]

Yes, sorry, I meant the socket prongs that connect to the wiring harness plug.