I have an aftermarket headunit that is brand new. It's my second aftermarket headunit as the car had one when I bought it. I installed the new one thinking that the first one may have had an issue with a bad solder point or internal short. It has acted identically on both units, so it is a car wiring issue I believe.
The issue: Intermittently the radio just powers off. Sometimes it won't happen for two months. Then other times (like now) it happens several times a day. It does often seem to be in motion and caused by hitting a bump in the road. Occasionally it will happen while I'm just idling at a stop light. A few times it will be working when I shut off the car, and then off when I get back in or vise versa.
What I've done: I've replaced the headunit. Headunit came with a new wiring harness obviously, so when putting that in I soldered and shrink wrapped the wire joints to the car wiring. I've looked around and jiggled things to see if I could trigger the issue.
So, I'm at the point of having to dig deeper, and wondering if anyone has an idea of where to dig first because I'm not really excited about going deep into the dash if the issue is somewhere else, etc.. Any thoughts?
The issue: Intermittently the radio just powers off. Sometimes it won't happen for two months. Then other times (like now) it happens several times a day. It does often seem to be in motion and caused by hitting a bump in the road. Occasionally it will happen while I'm just idling at a stop light. A few times it will be working when I shut off the car, and then off when I get back in or vise versa.
What I've done: I've replaced the headunit. Headunit came with a new wiring harness obviously, so when putting that in I soldered and shrink wrapped the wire joints to the car wiring. I've looked around and jiggled things to see if I could trigger the issue.
So, I'm at the point of having to dig deeper, and wondering if anyone has an idea of where to dig first because I'm not really excited about going deep into the dash if the issue is somewhere else, etc.. Any thoughts?
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