Radio Woes
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Racer
Joined: Sep 2010
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From: se iowa
Radio Woes
Hello all I have a 1987 which had no radio in it when i got it. I'm not sure if it's the bose system in the car or not. I have installed two aftermarket radios with the wiring that was there when I got the car and have had no troubles. My question is whether bose or not is there something that all the speaker inputs will travel through between the headunit and the speakers? Some type of signal conditioner or peramp maybe?
I ask this because my radio which has been working flawlessly decided to not put sound out to any speakers. One minute I'm rocking out and then when I went to crank the volume some more I lost sound to all speakers at once. The radio thinks it's putting out a signal because the equalizer bars are still moving. This occurs on both radio and cd functions. So i'm trying no figure out if my headunit is on vacation or if I blew the fuse on something in the car.
Any info would be appreciated.
I ask this because my radio which has been working flawlessly decided to not put sound out to any speakers. One minute I'm rocking out and then when I went to crank the volume some more I lost sound to all speakers at once. The radio thinks it's putting out a signal because the equalizer bars are still moving. This occurs on both radio and cd functions. So i'm trying no figure out if my headunit is on vacation or if I blew the fuse on something in the car.
Any info would be appreciated.
Team Owner
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From: Summerland B.C. Canada
Does it say Delco-Bose on the speaker covers ?
Bose system used a relay to control power to the amplifiers(one at each speaker). If that relay fails, all sound is gone.
It takes 2 fuses for stock/Bose or aftermarket units to work. Clk/Ctsy and Radio, test them both
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Bose system used a relay to control power to the amplifiers(one at each speaker). If that relay fails, all sound is gone.
It takes 2 fuses for stock/Bose or aftermarket units to work. Clk/Ctsy and Radio, test them both
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Racer
Joined: Sep 2010
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From: se iowa
Oddly enough the car sat for three day and then when I got into it today the radio worked fine. Now I'm thinking some sort of thermal overload protection. I'm not thinking head unit though as I would think that would cause it to power down-which it never did. As near as I could tell the head unit thought it was playing music.
