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what i said is basically everything that happened, but okay i will go more into detail..

i was driving my car listening to music, turned my car off at the shopping center, got back in my car turned it on and the cd player had no power at all, still has no power. i checked every fuse that runs the electrics in my car, they are all un broken.. im not sure what to do next, does anyone have any ideas why it just stopped working?

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If its not some cheap brand there will be a reset button somewhere on the face.its about the size of a pen tip. it wont be labled.

its a sony cd player, couldnt find the reset button you were talking about, been working flat out havent had a chance to get to it but im pulling the dash apart to get to the back of the cd player to test the plug right now as i speak.

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some sony models had the reset button behind the face. Its more then likely going to just need a reset but seems you have probly pulled the dash out by now.. what are you testing for power with?

EDIT: Seems your already back there unplug the loom from the CD player and leave it for a about a minute and then plug it back in and see what happends, that will reset everything too.

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some sony models had the reset button behind the face. Its more then likely going to just need a reset but seems you have probly pulled the dash out by now.. what are you testing for power with?

EDIT: Seems your already back there unplug the loom from the CD player and leave it for a about a minute and then plug it back in and see what happends, that will reset everything too.

okay, well i took the cd player completely out of the car for about 20 mins while i had lunch, tested the wiring loom with a test light, only one of them lit up, im not sure if thats right or not? it was the top 2'd one from the left. or the bottom 2nd one from the right, coz im not sure what up and down is. still having no luck with power, was just curious, how does this happen? ive never had this problem before is it coz the car heats up in the summer months or just an electrical fault?

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sound like you only found the constant. you will need to have the keys in the ignition set to the ACC position to get a reading for the other wire in the loom. This is the one that tells the unit to turn on when you turn the car on.

Yellow should be constant and Red will be switched by the ignition barrel.Also test for an earth in the loom, Will be the black wire.

What model unit do you have? Model number should be printed on the face somewhere if not it will be on a sticker on the metal shell of the unit somewhere.

Did you check the fuse in the back of the unit just above where the loom plugs in? Also the fuse in the fuse box under the dash?

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sound like you only found the constant. you will need to have the keys in the ignition set to the ACC position to get a reading for the other wire in the loom. This is the one that tells the unit to turn on when you turn the car on.

Yellow should be constant and Red will be switched by the ignition barrel.Also test for an earth in the loom, Will be the black wire.

What model unit do you have? Model number should be printed on the face somewhere if not it will be on a sticker on the metal shell of the unit somewhere.

Did you check the fuse in the back of the unit just above where the loom plugs in? Also the fuse in the fuse box under the dash?

I have tried everything, had the cd player inside the house all night so it had pleanty of time to reset because i cant find the reset button on the face of the cd player head unit anywhere, went back out today to test it, plugged it all in, put the keys in & turned to accessories, no power to the cd player still, even with the car running theres no power, i tested the cd player loom plug with a test light when the car was turned to accessories and when the car was running and i still only got that one wire to light up, checked the audio fuse in the boot, the electrical fuses under the dash and the fuse next to the loom plug at the back of the cd player, even replaced the lot just incase it looked fine but it wasnt, theres still no power at all to the cd player.

its kind of weird because my clock has no power either (only a very very faint light that you can only just see at night) and it always resets back to 12:00 when i turn the car off then back on, so its not holding the time or lighting up fully.

The air con will not turn on with the car, i have to manually turn it on every time and its never set to the temperature i previously had it (always to the factory 25 digrees), could this all be to do with the same thing?

i installed dash neons a few months ago & i remember i set all the wires up incorrect by accident to a toggle switch (before doing it correctly) and i seen a tiny bit of smoke coming from the wires around the ignition, could this be anything to do with it? my clock hasnt worked since that day.

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bit of smoke coming from the wires around the ignition

Probably best you visit an auto electrician at this stage and explain it all to them.

Multimeter set to resistance if you really want to give it a go yourself, however I wouldn't recommend it.

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