Alpine head unit owners...input please..
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Alpine head unit owners...input please.. I recently purchased a Alpine CDA-9885 head unit for my car, I installed it and it worked great for like 30 min...after that when i would turn the car on the sub in the trunk would come on but not the highs that were running off the unit itself...if I swapped from the Disc function to the Tuner function the highs would come on, but if I swapped back to the Disc I got a error message....I called crutchfield and they sent me another one...well i installed this one and the same **** starts happening...so I called Alpine...they said its not a wiring problem, I need to remove the stock delco amp....so i do this...and let me tell you that is one big pain in the ***...every set of speaker wires that comes into the amp from the radio is one set of colors....but when they leave for the speakers they change to a different set of colors...so I had to track down every wire and match them up......so i do all of this and its still messed up....so i call alpine again...he tells me that the amp shouldn't do anything and that its a problem with the head unit itself and that i need to call cruthfield back and swap again...so I call back and get them to send me the updated version of the 9885...the 9886....I just wanted to see if anyone else has had this kinda problems with our cars cuz i've done about 10 installs for other ppl and never had a problem....the third one will be here on monday and im tired of jacking with this ****
I ran new wires to my door speakers (which are alpine), but those little speakers in near the hatch still use the factory amp (they are alpine as well) There's a harness to connect those directly, along with the right harness for your head unit. If all else fails, just run new wires to the speakers and get new speakers.
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yea im still running the stock speakers everywhere but the front.....the shitty thing is that if you mess with the radio enough then everything works perfect....idk....the new one will be here tomorrow.....if that doesn't fix it im gonna be pissed...
I I do have the right harness to connect to my head unit....Crutchfield includes all that stuff for free....
I I do have the right harness to connect to my head unit....Crutchfield includes all that stuff for free....
um, Bad (burnt)disc? or is it a new cd?
i dont have that particular version, but my alpine has trouble reading discs sometimes...even though they are burnt the same way from the same machine.
i dont have that particular version, but my alpine has trouble reading discs sometimes...even though they are burnt the same way from the same machine.
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Verdad Gallardo if we're dealing with burned dics, thats definately my guess. did you try a store bought cd in any of these situations? it could also mean that your cd burner has gone bad, or even has a virus(mine did) in your computer.
thats gonna suck if you went through 3 decks and all the wiring trouble and its just a bad disc.
thats gonna suck if you went through 3 decks and all the wiring trouble and its just a bad disc.
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UPDATE.....Called Apline and they said it had to be the head unit...so i called crutchfield back and they upgraded me to the 9886 and gave me free overnight shipping...installed it today and everything is perfect.....hopefully it stays that way.....and this new unit is the ****!....thing has way to many options.....
thanks to everyone that posted back....
thanks to everyone that posted back....