Stereo not working following maintenance

[Turbo-G]

Hi guys,

 

My local Nissan garage replaced my rear and centre exhaust today (for a small fortune) and replaced my front and rear pads, however I've since noticed this evening that my stereo no longer works...

 

Unfortunately I didn't have the stereo on during the journey to the garage, so don't know for certain whether its purely coincidental, or whether they may have done something wrong?!

 

All other electrics in the car seem to be OK, and the stereo is illuminated with the rest of the dash, only not responding to any button presses.

 

Has anybody else suffered a similar problem? Is there a fuse I should be checking? Is there any chance the garage will have disconnected anything before working on the car?

 

Car is a 54' UK GT car, with standard Bose stereo.

 

Unfortunately I can't ring them until Monday morning

 

Cheers, Grant

[aidan]

Did they do any welding work on brackets for exhaust?

[Briggsybriggs1]

I would check the fuse will only take 5 min and then take it from there :-)

 

 

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[Turbo-G]

Which fuse is it? Or is it well labelled? Not looked a them on this car before.

 

Don't think they would have done any welding work, it was a simple off/on job with the standard OEM exhaust.

[Briggsybriggs1]

http://www.courtesyparts.com/pdf/2006-Nissan-350Z.pdf#page241

 

Here is a link to the work shop manual it may help u . Iv not had to change any fuses yet when I got my car from garage my stereo did not work and it was the fuse after jump starting it :-)

 

 

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Edited December 15, 2013 by Briggsybriggs1

[Turbo-G]

OK, so removing and re-inserting the stereo fuse has got it working again - strangely though the fuse hadn't blown.

 

Cheers.

[Turbo-G]

In addition to the stereo issues, my car displayed a check engine light on the way home.

 

Are there any sensors that the mechanics are likely to have interfered with in swapping my brake pads and exhaust? Car seems to drive OK - I assume there isn't a way to DIY read the CEL codes without an OBDII reader?

[WhackyWill]

Seems like your local Nissan garage are not that good, would have thought they would do a

 

full check before giving you back the car..

[Turbo-G]

Well, the CEL wasn't illuminated until some 100 miles later the day after. I resetted the ECU using the peddle trick last night which cleared the CEL.

 

It hasn't come back on again, so will take it back to Nissan if it does.

 

This prompted me to buy one of those Bluetooth LE OBDII diagnostic readers, which you can pair with a smartphone or laptop.

 

Anybody have any iOS OBDII app recommendations? Seems to be a fair few available, ranging from free to a few pounds.

[Turbo-G]

Ok, so my elm327 mini dongle arrived today. Doesn't seem to work though from what I can tell. iPhone 5 can't discover it, and none of the two apps I have can connect - so I'm assuming its DOA.

 

 

 

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