# Help with my truck's stereo!

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/help-with-my-trucks-stereo/48167>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** f250, ford\
**Created:** [April 30, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/help-with-my-trucks-stereo/48167 "2010-04-30T21:04:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![AAEngineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AAEngineer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/AAEngineer)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/help-with-my-trucks-stereo/48167/1 "2010-04-30T21:04:24Z")

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OK- so here’s the deal. Last week when driving home from the coast, a nice 3 hour drive, the speakers on my stereo started having intermittent static- not just a little static, but nothing but static. Shortly thereafter, the stereo just cut out completely, and broadcast nothing but static from the speakers, the intensity and volume would not change when I switched inputs or changed the volume. Turning it off, then back on would temporarily fix the problem, but soon it returned to this staticy state and remained there permanently. I checked the connections, they all looked good so I replaced the head unit, but of course same problem again. Is this a problem in the wiring harness? Where do you think my problem originates and where should I be looking?

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**Author:** ![fitjeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fitjeep](https://community.cartalk.com/u/fitjeep)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/help-with-my-trucks-stereo/48167/2 "2010-04-30T21:17:30Z")

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It sounds like a critical component, like a power transistor, is failing due to heat. In which case you need a new stereo, nobody fixes them anymore.

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**Author:** ![AAEngineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AAEngineer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/AAEngineer)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/help-with-my-trucks-stereo/48167/3 "2010-04-30T21:24:21Z")

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I replaced the whole head unit with a new one, and I still have the same problem, it’s constant now, has no relationship to heat.

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**Author:** ![waterboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/waterboy/32/764_2.png) [@waterboy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/waterboy)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/help-with-my-trucks-stereo/48167/4 "2010-04-30T22:14:15Z")

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You appear to have a short in the system. A few questions. Do you have a cd player and does it happen then.