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So as of late a new issue has arisen. This use to happen maybe once every couple months but as of late it seems to happen every couple days. Sometimes when I turn the car on, the head unit just does not get power. It will be working fine when while driving, I will park the car, and the next day I go to start the car and the radio never comes on. Usually I disconnect the battery ground for 30 minutes and hook it back up and the radio powers on. I have been trying to test different ways of turning the car on ( key to acc, interact w headunit, and then start) usually this allows it to stay on but it seems to be random. I have not found a concrete reason as to why it does this. All of the other electronics work fine and this is the second pioneer headunit I have had in the car as the second stopped working, maybe this one is on the way out too? The only thing I could think of is I have tapped into the radio fuse for the dash cam but its been in there for years and have never had this issue with the stock mach 460 and did not have this issue for a while on this headunit. I checked all the wiring in the dash and all looks well. I know this was a lot and probably very confusing but I hope you can help me find a solution.

02 281 GT said:

Original radio? May just be on its last legs.

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It’s a pioneer head unit, just a few months old

02 281 GT said:

I would double check the wiring. If all looks well and you never had a similar issue with the original radio, it's likely another aftermarket unit going bad on you.

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I might even throw back on my stock head unit for a while and see if the issue persists. The wiring harness was from crutchfield and I couldn’t find any defects. If the Mach head unit doesn’t have this issue I’ll have to deal with them again for another unit.