stereo question

[MN6WS6]

I think we'd all advise that too, but he's just looking to fix what he has right now.

At least it's not a factory radio, so he's heading in the right direction

[Mike71]

Here's my advice, I work in a car audio shop, and the best thing you can do is rip that aiwa out of your car, run it over a few times, and then buy either a rockford, panasonic, or eclipse deck. Aiwa is notorious for building great sounding products, but for durability they are overall crap. I haven't known an Aiwa car or home audio reciever to last more than 6 months before it either won't read a disk or doesn't turn on properly. You can either try fixing it yourself, buy a new deck, or you can contact aiwa and send it to them for repare. But my advice is to invest in a new deck.

rockford and panasonic also have there bad names...i personally have nothing against panasonic (i own the pan 983) but clumping things up like u do is like saying all torus' are bad because urs broke..but out of 600,000 cars most are still on the road

sorry to be a d##k it just bothers me when people will bash an entire company for nothing..i run a RF 800@2..and i run it hard 14.9-15.2 volts all day long it runs fine..however my first 3!! blew up on me..doesnt mean they all suck i just got a few lemons

[Sinister TA]

we tried three different product lines from aiwa over two years, all were trash. The only customer who we never heard a problem from was because he moved to cali. And as far as rockford goes, there product line from two or three generations ago where built from new, unperfected technolgy. They were prone to burning up, however now that technology has been perfected. And if you could read properly, I wasn't "bashing" panasonic, rockford, or eclipse, i was supporting them. That is the three main product lines we carry. It called product promotion or advertising if you will. It's a business thing.

Sorry for being so rude. Patience is a virtue......unfortunately it's not a virtue i was born with.

[Sinister TA]

I think we'd all advise that too, but he's just looking to fix what he has right now.

At least it's not a factory radio, so he's heading in the right direction

The internal on/off switch is probably fried.

[SndQ97V6bird]

i agree about the aiwa thing. but disagree with running it over a 2 times. 3 times minimum would be suffice. 6 times is too many as the time spent to do so was worth more lost hourly pay in the shop. like nos said. check the fuses and then toss teh aiwa and then pick maybe an rampage radio or jensen those things rock ( HAHAHAHA) ok sorry. get a better deck if you can and if your wire problem is fixed by the fuses cool. if not then trade the car in..LOL kidding. but i agree sounds like fuse or bad deck. good luck

[paxton350]

ok

ok i got it it was a fried power lead on the harness on the back of the stereo. i shrinkwrapped it an now the stock steroeo works however.. the aiwia deck turns on an all the functions work however there is no sound form the speakers but when i hook up the stock stereo there is sound from the speakers...... weird i might just go get a prewired harness from circuit city an not mess with it anymore cuz it might be somethin with my rigged harness i made lol but the stock one works fine

-chris

[Mike71]

aslong as u connected all the same color wires together it should be fine..its not really that hard to splice in a new deck

sometimes not ALL of the wires are the same color...but there is usually enough of the same color that u can rule them out and do it that way

also power/ground/12v switched wires are ALWAYS the same color red/black/yellow and the remote turn on for power antenas or for ur amp is always blue