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Car Forum / Ford / Ford Focus / August 2007

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Car radio no response

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darren100 - 17 Aug 2007 17:08 GMT
can anyone help with this.. i have been told my car battery is low and this
is why the needles on the display sometimes go to max when i start the
car.

could this be the reason why my car stereo is going wierd? the following
happened to me about 2 months ago, and has recently happened again:

i have a pioneer MOSFET DEH P4300R stereo and it has stopped responding
apart from 1 button which will turn the radio on when there is no CD in it
- this is not the power button you would normally use. when i insert a CD,
it plays it fine but there is absoloutly nothing else you can do - no
buttons work so you cant fast fwd, skip, pause etc etc - you can only
change the volume. when this happened about 2 months ago it was dodgy for
about 2 weeks, and then one day suddenly it all came back and responded.

has this happened to anyone before??
can anyone help??
Chris Whelan - 17 Aug 2007 19:39 GMT
> can anyone help with this.. i have been told my car battery is low and
> this is why the needles on the display sometimes go to max when i start
> the car.

Do they go all the way to max, then to minimum, and then behave normally? If
so, the cause is that the dashboard electronics are rebooting. A battery
past its best will definitely cause this, but so will poor connections at
both fuse boxes.

If the battery is getting old, and you don't want to delve in to the
electrics, it might be worth replacing it. You will have to at some point
anyway.

> could this be the reason why my car stereo is going wierd? the following
> happened to me about 2 months ago, and has recently happened again:
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> change the volume. when this happened about 2 months ago it was dodgy for
> about 2 weeks, and then one day suddenly it all came back and responded.

Pretty unlikely to be the battery in this case IMO.

> has this happened to anyone before??

Don't know.

> can anyone help??

I hope I have...

:-)

Chris

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