Occasional Outage

[atalakoub]

About once a month when I get into my Tahoe the radio/nav does not work. Won't turn on, no sounds for blinkers, no chimes. Once I get to my destination park then return some time later, it works no problem. I have the GMX550 installed and don't remember if this happened before or not.

I have tried just getting out and locking it and then getting back in with no luck, it only works again when I am away from the car for more than a few minutes. Do I catch the elves that run everything in the dash on break?

Any help is appreciated!

 

[Modded]

The first step is to remove the lockpick for a while and see if the issue continues. If not, then that is the problem. I bet the lockpick is the issues.

 

[timjohnson22]

I had that same issue and it was the lockpick. Mine is going on ebay as soon as i get beck from this deployment.

 

[Green Machine]

I've started getting similar issues as well. I didn't have them for the first month since putting in the GMX550. They started popping up (and pretty regularly) this past week. I recently upgraded to the 6.0c Nav disc and put in a BlueFusion unit. I really hope it isn't due to any of these 3 things.

My plan is to first check connections and the battery terminals.

 

[Green Machine]

Sure enough, got home and started up the tahoe. No radio. Turned off the engine. Restarted. Radio works.

I checked the battery cables really quickly by hand. They feel tight.

I've removed the 6.0c Nav disc for the time being to see if the problem persists.

 

[Green Machine]

Today I've gone on several short trips in the truck. Without the 6.0c disc I haven't had any problems with the stereo. With it in, it seems like the stereo was failing to turn on about 1 in 4 tries. I'll see how things are for the rest of the weekend.

 

[ahuckaby]

i had this happen once the other day. my audio/nav is completely stock

 

[Green Machine]

i had this happen once the other day. my audio/nav is completely stock

Which NAV disc do you have? I just want to rule out the 6.0c as the culprit b/c I remember reading somewhere (either on this board or another GM board) that the 6.0c was giving someone some issues.