tried to jump start car wrong way radio not working

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jam1231
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i connected the terminal up backwards pos to neg... silly me anyway now my radio has no sound i ck pwr from the battery to the amp i am getting 12 volts the radio has pwr but no sound is there a fusiable link somewhere that might be the problem?


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lol ^^^Ive done the same thing a while back on my first 240. Nothing happened to it though. Sure its related to the fail jump start?

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Fail.Last time a buddy did that it:Fried his ECUF*cked up his ignitor chip andBlew some fusees.

good luck figuring it out.next time MARK your terminalsRed for positive Black for neg.

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IDK bro check your fuses in and out, check all connections to radio, and check your speaker wires.

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check the fuse in the back of your head unit?

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whyteboi
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NiceLyphe wrote:check the fuse in the back of your head unit?
everyone seams to forget that one

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jam1231
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Check fuses in the head unit and the eq

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Stop failing.

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Sucks to be you nerd.

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s13tomf31691
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lol my radio stopped working too a few weeks ago..it owrked and all..there was just no sound so i took out hte deck to look at it..and the guy i bought it from did a real s*** job wiring it up and i couldnt figure it out so i went to put the deck back in and i heard a small pop and it started smoking so i took it out haha so i made sure all my wires were connected and taped up and it started workind again so i guess chekc all of your wires

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I did the same exact thing man so dont feel bad. When I did it, all it did was blow the alt. fuse. Check that if you havnt already. It's on the passenger side fuse box in the engine bay.


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