Alright well first off I have an 04 F-150 Styleside XLT 4.6 4x4 AT 3.55 factory 6cd/mp3. Well I was on my way back to the store when my stereo just shut off completely. I have had that happen to me before in other cars so I just shut it off and turned it back on hoping it was fine. But the stereo didnt turn on!!! I have lights to the stereo but no visual screen or sound coming out.. When I got back home I took the stereo out to make sure all connections were fine.. and they were..I even checked the fuse for the stereo, which was fine as well.....

So to make sure that it wasnt the stereo I went inside to grab the factory single cd player that came with the truck.. Put that in and still no visual screen or sound..

The 6cd/mp3 deck let me eject all of the cds that I had inside so there was power... and after I took the last cd out I hit eject disk one more time and " no disk" showed on the screen... but quickly went away...

At this point I have came to the conclusion that the cd players are fine because neither of them work.. so it has to be something with the truck or wiring..

I am going to take it down to the Ford Dealership tomorrow morning but I was just wondering about your thoughts on it..

Thanks guys

Matt

 

ooo spooky, ghost in the machine?? I think your truck is trying to tell you somthing..

 

anyone have any ideas or has this happened to anyone else?

 

anyone have any ideas???

 

The stereo has 2 power inputs 1 for ignition and 1 for constant make sure you found both fuses not just one or the other. It sounds like the constant one since the lights turn on when you turn on the key. Its probabaly fused with a few other things like cig lights etc.

 

ps: tell AROD he left his purse here in the fenway dugout

 

I checked the fuse , I believe it is #7 according to the manual. I think is says something about Radio Start or something... I will check for another fuse...

 

Alright well I swapped out both fuses, #7(start signal) and #31(radio power) and I also check #41 (cig lighter)

And still not working.....

any other ideas.. I also made a post in the stereo section and someone said soemthing about a bad ground..

I am going to check that now..