Is it Dead?

My cigarette lighter in the car shorted out and the HU then flickered on and off, then just shut off. I replaced the fuse for the cig. lighter and radio, still nothing. I checked the fuse on the back of the HU and it was good. The HU makes a quiet clicking noise and the red triangle at the top right hand corner of the face plate blinks every now and then.

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Hi it sounds like the cd mech is wurring so power should be ok.
try RESETTING the unit with the reset button, you will need a pen tor a pin to do this in most cases. if still no joy, then double check that you are getthing two pwer feeds to the radio
1 should always be there this is the perminant power feed. and the other4 should only be there when the ignition is on.

let me know how you get on.

Mark

Blue ICE
www.blueice-electronics.co.uk

Posted on Feb 26, 2008

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