jensen hu turns off and on

[Fusion.421]

I have a jensen 7" flip up that i installed and it worked fine for about and week then all the sudden it started turning off and on randomly. I figured out that it turns off when i roll my windows down, turn on my blinkers, open the sun roof...anything that uses power. WTF is making this piece of crap do this, i know jensens suck but this thing was pretty much free .

Is it a problem with the ground, i by passed the crap that makes it so the e brake has to be up by splicing the wire to the black ground wire.

[woa_its_j3ff]

there's a reason why Jensen's are cheap bro...

(well from what I've seen at Circuit City when I used to work there)
you get what you pay for?

wish I could help you out some.

[tito53]

what model do you have? i have the jensen vm9311ts and never gave me a problem.... who did the installation for you? you dont need to ground it for the bypass... theres a code you can "type in" with your remote.

[lilmike2069]

if its only when you use something else that draws a lot of current, then you could try putting a 12V cap in parallel with the headunit power. The cap will keep the voltage levels more stable when something momentarily draws a lot of current

[Fusion.421]

im not sure off the top of my head, its the one thats in the stores for 800, I know jensen sucks but for 100 bucks its kind of hard to turn down.

[tito53]

was it used then? maybe thats why it sold so cheap

[Fusion.421]

its not the problem it was in my friends car for about a week and his parents said if he wanted to stay on their insurance it had to come out. he works at circuit city and got it for dirt cheap cuzz the mark up is amazingly high on car audio/video so he sold it to me cheap too

[Fusion.421]

there is a few wires i diddnt use becasue there wanst anything to wire them too i could take a look when i get home what they are, i think there was a yellow one, a green one , and an orange one but im not too sure

[blaK]

Sell it quik!

[Fusion.421]

haha my thoughts exactly

[Kenz]

Yeah I bought a Jensen HU for my first car(this was years ago lol). That thing was the biggest POS ever. Skipped like crazy, I paid like $200 for it from crutchfield. So ya back in the 90s they were still crap.

I wouldn't install Jensen in my car, even if someone paid me to.

[michaels artic frost]

Fusion.421,

Please explain in full details of your install, I will try and troubleshoot this issue for you to make sure you have the correct wiring setup.

For instance, on your HU, what wire did u connect the 12v to? ignition wire to? ground?

Just to let you know, I've got 3 Jensen dvd HU and they've all been amazingly problem free and I've done all of my installs except for one that I had help with which was a double din. I've also used the bypass code (which you can google) to disable the ebrake to watch movies without having the need for an on/off switch.

But keep in mind all of mine were brand new units and all work flawlessly!

pm me if you need help.

-Michael

[philosophicaljt]

Jensen quality sucks. Sorry.

However, it sounds like its installed improperly. Check your grounds and make sure everything is sealed correctly. Could be a short somewhere.

[tito53]

Fusion.421,

Please explain in full details of your install, I will try and troubleshoot this issue for you to make sure you have the correct wiring setup.

For instance, on your HU, what wire did u connect the 12v to? ignition wire to? ground?

Just to let you know, I've got 3 Jensen dvd HU and they've all been amazingly problem free and I've done all of my installs except for one that I had help with which was a double din. I've also used the bypass code (which you can google) to disable the ebrake to watch movies without having the need for an on/off switch.

But keep in mind all of mine were brand new units and all work flawlessly!

pm me if you need help.

-Michael

heres the code!

http://www.solaraguy.org/viewtopic.php? ... highlight=