car stereo blown?

**furiousgibbon** · 1st February 2005

i was fitting a pioneer head unit the other day into a mates car, its about 1 year old and cost about 200ish so was a pretty good one then, its been lying in my room for a while till i went to fit it, when we started the car i tiny puff of smoke seemed to emerge and it didnt work, the wiring in hsi car was ****ed i thbink but does anyone know if it cud be fixed/may still work in a different car? hoping to put it into mine!

**weejabba** · 1st February 2005

If you have wired it in properly (double check your polarity) then i would bin it sounds Fooked then!

**furiousgibbon** · 1st February 2005

is there no way to replace a fuse or anything within it? i wont get a chance to try it in my car till the weekend probably but ill see how it goes!

**Phreakster** · 1st February 2005

What ever happed to using good old iso connectors???

I think you've fried your stereo mate, either take it one of these car audio shops and see if they repair it otherwise you might have to bin it or sell it on ebay as a non-worker

**bigcol** · 3rd February 2005

try wiring it up to just an old battery and speaker , that way you wont fook the wiring on your own car if its the stereo at fault

**Phreakster** · 3rd February 2005

What car were you trying to fit it to? Just bear in mind to use a multimeter as a red wire doesn't always mean +voltage

**Pongo** · 3rd February 2005

Originally Posted by furiousgibbon

i was fitting a pioneer head unit the other day into a mates car, its about 1 year old and cost about 200ish so was a pretty good one then, its been lying in my room for a while till i went to fit it, when we started the car i tiny puff of smoke seemed to emerge and it didnt work, the wiring in hsi car was ****ed i thbink but does anyone know if it cud be fixed/may still work in a different car? hoping to put it into mine!

Ummm Smoke from electronics ? The technical word you're looking for is FOOKED !

**furiousgibbon** · 4th February 2005

it came out of my renault clio R reg when i wrote that off, then tried fitting it to a VW polo, thats when it didnt work properly, it kinda worked then i did something and it stopped working, its sat dorment in its box for over a year, now i want to fit it to a ROVER 214 p 97 reg.....

**furiousgibbon** · 12th February 2005

apparantly nopw i have heard some more to the story, when my mate whose car i tried to fit it too, it didnt work, he went to halfords to get a new sony one fitted and it didnt work either, he needed some fuses in the car changed for that to work, so do you think it wa shis car and not the head unit? im going to try halfords tomorrow see if it works there!

**furiousgibbon** · 13th February 2005

it has been sent away for repairs, was blowing fuses in it and the car without starting up so something is messed up, now waiting to hear what the damage will be!

**exson** · 15th February 2005

Frazzl;ed parts are easy to spot but hard to identify as markings are burnt.but a search of manufactures site for scematic will soon id the offending component.a solder iron will soon replace it.

**topcat1234** · 18th February 2005

[QUOTE=furiousgibbon]is there no way to replace a fuse or anything within it? QUOTE]

Open it, there should be a glass fuse inside.

**pangr** · 20th February 2005

If you saw a puff of smoke, the chances are that the smoke did not come from a blown fuse. Fuses are usually encapsulate in a body (usually Glass). It is more likely to be a transistor or a capacitor.
Look for hot dark patched around the circuit board. Or look for holes in surface mount transistor packages or erupted capacitors. Though the likely hood of this damage usually causes a knock-on effect of other component failure.
The damage usually surrounds the power supply circuitry ie, the first stage of electronics as the power cables enter the unit.

Good Luck!!!