mach 460 WTF

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gottabfordtough

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after ive driven for about 15 min with the radio loud, and bass up. the *&$%#!@ amps in the rear get hot and start cutting out. anyone else with this problem

 

yellow2kgt

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On a few occasions when I had the radio and bass turned up fairly high my headunit has shut down and reset itself to all of the defaults.

 

pony_vert02

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i never had any trouble with my unit....

 

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gottabfordtough

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when im on the interstate with the windows down i turn it up, only about 2 bars from full. and with the bass all the way up and that's when i have problems, it does fine just cruising, i thought i blew a speaker so i got off and started checking the rears. and the amps will burn ya if you touch them, that can't be right. or good for the car.

 

GDawg

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yellow2kgt said:

On a few occasions when I had the radio and bass turned up fairly high my headunit has shut down and reset itself to all of the defaults.

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Me too...

 

DaDDyGSp0T

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same here... i just leave treble almost all the way 100% up and bass in th middle....sounds best plus it doesnt shut on me....ur trying to get too much out of the amps

 

dsg_gt2004

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amps have a safety feature that makes them turn off if they get too hot so they wont burn up internally....so an amp being hot is normal...the amp is trying to get cool and of course it will be hot, so it's ok...thats why they are mounted in open air...would be better if they had fans
either way nothing is wrong, just try not to play it as loud or turn down the bass a little bit

 

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gottabfordtough

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thanks guys, im hookin up subs soon so hopefully i wont have to keep the bass hi to get the sound i want.

 

TrueBlue03

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If you get subs and still have the mach 460 head unit be sure to get a bass control remote/knob so you can adjust the sub volume without changing the speaker bass. Thats how i got mine set up. works well.

 

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who me

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i have a newbie question.
What type of speakers do the mach 460 have? Are they special speakers from ford or are they actually infinity or bose or yada,yada?

 

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travis0712

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Never had any problems with my play/amps/speakers - if it still has warrenty, take it in and get them replaced - it is not normal... I have been on 18 hour trips with bass cranked... not one issue.

 

GDawg

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who me said:

i have a newbie question.
What type of speakers do the mach 460 have? Are they special speakers from ford or are they actually infinity or bose or yada,yada?

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I know the Mach 460 Head unit is made by Sony but I don't know about the speakers... (Mach 1000 head unit is made by Visteon)

Here is a good informational site on our Mach 460s and Mach 1000s.

http://www.flemworld.com/Mach460/Mach.html

 

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gottabfordtough

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TrueBlue03 said:

If you get subs and still have the mach 460 head unit be sure to get a bass control remote/knob so you can adjust the sub volume without changing the speaker bass. Thats how i got mine set up. works well.

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thanks. got one of those. and i just spliced into the factory rear subs, and used a line out controller, still waiting for the box, got speakers and amp already. thanks again guys.

 

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gottabfordtough

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they say the mach 460 has 8 speakers and 3 amps. where's the third amp.

 

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okc2KGT

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the third amp is built into the headunit on 01-04s. on the 99-00s its under the seperate cd player.