Radio help.. Please!

[Medic_Morgan]

Hey everyone I'm having a little trouble w/ my radio in my 2008 H3. I've been at work for the past 24hrs and when I went to go start my car it was dead. I've recently had the battery tested/jumped by AAA(they stated even as the original battery it's great but my terminal are corroding) about a week ago but haven't decided on terminals just yet. Now since I knew that the terminals were bad I popped the hood, tightened down the Neg terminal(really loose) and now when I started the rig my radio won't work. No lights or power but all the a/c knobs work. It's the stock head unit w/ the single disk(non monsoon). Hope that's enough info! Thanks for the help everyone!


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[digglesworth]

I know its not a solution to your problem but I found some Stinger terminals on amazon. They were two seperate pieces. One with (1)4awg/(1)8awg for the negatve and one with (2)4awg/(1)8awg for the positive. The (2)4awg worked great for the 2 positive cables and the 8awg allowed me to run a piece of 8awg to my auxiliary fuse block... They have plastic covers too... I think I paid $20 for both... You can usually find them in a bunch of configurations. I assume you've checked the fuses... Good luck trackin it down.

 

[Medic_Morgan]

I know its not a solution to your problem but I found some Stinger terminals on amazon. They were two seperate pieces. One with (1)4awg/(1)8awg for the negatve and one with (2)4awg/(1)8awg for the positive. The (2)4awg worked great for the 2 positive cables and the 8awg allowed me to run a piece of 8awg to my auxiliary fuse block... They have plastic covers too... I think I paid $20 for both... You can usually find them in a bunch of configurations. I assume you've checked the fuses... Good luck trackin it down.

Thanks Digglesworth! I'm sitting here at work trying to track some terminals down since that's my current gremlin(that contributed to the radio issue) Do you by chance have the link to the ones you purchased?




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[digglesworth]

Let me see if I can pull it up.

 

[digglesworth]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001HHM6E8/ref=ya_aw_oh_pit

That's the one I used for the positive...

 

[digglesworth]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001HG7JIM/ref=ya_aw_oh_pit

And the negative...

 

[alrock]

I've had my radio act up a bit like that once after a dead battery. Just took a restart or two of the truck to get it going again. Did you check fuses?

 

[Medic_Morgan]

I've had my radio act up a bit like that once after a dead battery. Just took a restart or two of the truck to get it going again. Did you check fuses?

Fuses are good and all the buttons on the unit light up. Last time this happened the "dealership" fixed it w/ a $100 deductible and another time I had to pull the unit out then plug it back in. Kinda confused about what causes this and since I'm at work for another 24 right now I don't have a chance to pull it apart.


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[Neo]

i had a six disc changer head unit go bad and start killing the battery. something inside breaks that turns of a driver motor or something and when it fails the stereo uses juice all the time and thus kills the battery. my first signs were driver's side power window and lock crap would stop working and dead battery. F5 switched out the 6 disc with an old one that he had and everything has been fine since. i went thru thinking it was the battery and then found some info on a giggle search... could be the culprit.