Delerium
08-20-2003, 08:23 PM
ok, so I bid for a factory refurbished kenwood head unit (kdc-x859)
and the guy takes forever getting back to me on the auction.
he claims that the factory (kenwood) could not fix it so he had to wait for a new unit as a replacement.
I finally get it in the mail and Im wondering if it is the new unit or if its the refurbished one.
I install it in my mach stereo system and now either something is wrong with the head unit or I have a short somewhere in my wiring or I fucked up when I installed it (which I doubt).
So I had to get one of the little box thingies to step down the power from the amp in the head unit before it goes to the amps in the factory mach stereo system.
I get it all hooked up and at first it starts cutting out on me, and then is pretty much totally cut out and It would cut in every now and then and sound normal.
when I say "cut out" I mean the music stops while the unit is still playing the CD and I can barely hear a faded, distorted sound coming from the speakers.
I checked my wiring and it looks ok, I have the knobs on the "step down power box" turned almost all the way down, and when I use another electrical unit in the car such as the power windows and if I turn my dome/head lights on and off it cuts out then.
So Im thinking either the unit is defective and sucks too much power so when I got to turn the head lights on or work the power windows it cant get the juice and cuts out. Or maybe theres a short somewhere and I need to know how to find it.
thank you for any help
and the guy takes forever getting back to me on the auction.
he claims that the factory (kenwood) could not fix it so he had to wait for a new unit as a replacement.
I finally get it in the mail and Im wondering if it is the new unit or if its the refurbished one.
I install it in my mach stereo system and now either something is wrong with the head unit or I have a short somewhere in my wiring or I fucked up when I installed it (which I doubt).
So I had to get one of the little box thingies to step down the power from the amp in the head unit before it goes to the amps in the factory mach stereo system.
I get it all hooked up and at first it starts cutting out on me, and then is pretty much totally cut out and It would cut in every now and then and sound normal.
when I say "cut out" I mean the music stops while the unit is still playing the CD and I can barely hear a faded, distorted sound coming from the speakers.
I checked my wiring and it looks ok, I have the knobs on the "step down power box" turned almost all the way down, and when I use another electrical unit in the car such as the power windows and if I turn my dome/head lights on and off it cuts out then.
So Im thinking either the unit is defective and sucks too much power so when I got to turn the head lights on or work the power windows it cant get the juice and cuts out. Or maybe theres a short somewhere and I need to know how to find it.
thank you for any help