no sound??? - Saxperience

jonny13_vtr · 21st February 2008, 15:17

I turned the car on today and the music came out of the speakers for a second or so then then it stopped playing? Does anybody have any ideas to what happened?
i checked the fuses for the sound system and they were all sweet. I didnt have any back lights on when i started it, dunno if this is anything to do with it?? rep given

stendog · 21st February 2008, 15:25

check all the connections at back of headunit, back of speakers and amp if you have one. then check the fuses in back of headunit and amp then check your earth connections and make sure that it is connected to bare metal not paint

Peejous · 21st February 2008, 15:30

As above, check the main connection into the headunit. more than likely probably a loose connection somewhere or bad earth. How did you connect the speaker wires to your headunit? (plastic clips/soldered or just twisted together?

jonny13_vtr · 21st February 2008, 17:49

checked all the fuses. and connections .nothing??? theres noo dodgy connections like twisted wires. proper connections are used. just seems really strange why it would just cut off??? the car hasnt moved in a few months could have damp got into the components???/

saxmaster · 21st February 2008, 17:53

did you turn the volume down?

hmmm fuse on amp fuse in fuse box
poor earth
loose connection
shorting out on something maybe happened to me before
other than that not sure what it could be sorry

jonny13_vtr · 21st February 2008, 23:13

im not too sure either. well i havent checked the fuse box but i dont think its that. could i have possibly fucked something starting it without any rear lights???

Mochachino · 21st February 2008, 23:24

mine does thi when i turn it up quite loud and a huge bassline comes on, all my speakers just stop dead :s i have t turn it down switch the HU off n back on again.

Hasnt done it for a while though, and the light on the amp thats meant to be green turns to red, i guess it trips it self out or sumthing :s i dunno.

jonny13_vtr · 21st February 2008, 23:33

the music wasnt even loud, it was really low. starting to piss me off lol

Noddy · 21st February 2008, 23:47

db - thats your apams doing their jobs and going into protect mode to stop them from being damaged. You have to turn the HU off in order for the amps to turn off and reset...

saxmaster · 22nd February 2008, 07:48

may sound sillyt is the h/u clipped in properely?

Keefo · 22nd February 2008, 08:42

Is there DEFINATLY power getting to the Amp??

I had a similar problem where my music just cut out and it turned out i had a dodgy Power cable that was just fooked, i just ripped it out and tryed again!!

and what ya mean by starting it without rear lights???

jonny13_vtr · 22nd February 2008, 11:57

nah mate theres no power gettting to any of the amps. I bought new back lighs but i dont have the bulb holders for them so they are just sitting in but not wired up to the wiring connecters yet.

stendog · 22nd February 2008, 12:41

maybe silly but does the headunit turn on

jonny13_vtr · 22nd February 2008, 13:35

yeah mate all the fuctions on the cd player work except for the sound and i can hear the cd player spinning.

jonny13_vtr · 22nd February 2008, 14:07

just to explain how its set up.

theres two amps in the back, with their own earths. the remote leads from them run up the passenger side to the passenger footweld. it joins into another remote lead from an amp. One remote leads runs directly to the head unit.
The amp in the footweld has its own earth.
The power cable runs into the footweld. theres a fuse box there where it splits in 2. One runs around the drivers side and down to the rear 2 amps. The other runs into the footweld amp.
None of the fuses have blown.
Some bastard stole the cd player a while ago the cd player i have is only a 2xpre out model wired up to take 3, there have never been any problems with this.
If it was a dodgy earth somewhere some amps would work when others wouldnt cause they have got there own earths so i think i can rule that out
Ive check the remote leads over and over and there appears to nothing wrong .
I cant see why the amps are not getting power, all the fuses are sweet and theres nothing wrong connections either.
I think that possibly the headunit might be fuckod.

stendog · 22nd February 2008, 15:16

if you think its the headunit then why not take one amp out and run a power cable with fuse staright to it from the battery, earth it and connect the 12v input into the remote socket and see if the amp works. if it does then its got to be the headunit fucked really. try it on all of the amps.