My (Pioneer) radio has been restarting on it's own the last two days and I can't really find a reason why.
Last fall I installed the radio, along with a module that allows use of the steering wheel controls. A few weeks later the radio reset (power cycled) on me twice while cruising down a smooth road. Fast forward 3.5 months and now it has reset 30 times in the last two days. Sometimes it will do it a bunch in a row and then it won't do it at all for the rest of the trip. It doesn't lose the radio presets, it just goes black, like I turned the car off and then turns back on, like it does when I start the car.
The closest I have got to recreating the issue that one time, while sitting in a parking lot, it would power cycle every time I turned the steering wheel. A little Google detective work tonight found another guy who had the same issue, but nobody had answered his question.
Has anyone else seen this issue and know of a fix? My theory at this point is that it's somehow caused by the electronic connection in the steering wheel. I assume it has a dead spot on a floating disk and when that spot works around to the connection point, it causes this.
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Last fall I installed the radio, along with a module that allows use of the steering wheel controls. A few weeks later the radio reset (power cycled) on me twice while cruising down a smooth road. Fast forward 3.5 months and now it has reset 30 times in the last two days. Sometimes it will do it a bunch in a row and then it won't do it at all for the rest of the trip. It doesn't lose the radio presets, it just goes black, like I turned the car off and then turns back on, like it does when I start the car.
The closest I have got to recreating the issue that one time, while sitting in a parking lot, it would power cycle every time I turned the steering wheel. A little Google detective work tonight found another guy who had the same issue, but nobody had answered his question.
Has anyone else seen this issue and know of a fix? My theory at this point is that it's somehow caused by the electronic connection in the steering wheel. I assume it has a dead spot on a floating disk and when that spot works around to the connection point, it causes this.
Notes:
- My Scan Gauge II reads a full 14.1-14.2 volts at idle, even while turning the wheel.
- It does not appear to be caused by bumps in the road.
- Twice I have recreated it a few times in a row while stopped, by turning the steering wheel.
- The upper dash does not power cycle.
- The power steering system works fine and does not cut out. I put this note in here because of an issue I read about on a Mazda3 forum.
- There is nothing else to note - nothing else blinks, I don't think I have a loose wire, everything was soldered and shrink wrapped, no static in the speakers, nothing.
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