Why would my car audio system lose volume when I turn a corner or brake quickly?
I traded in an older car for a 2008 Nissan Altima a few weeks ago. I first started noticing that CDs were losing volume at times, and then I started noticing my satellite radio was doing the same thing. After a while, I was able to pinpoint when it was happening and what the car was doing when it happened. When I make U-turns, left or right turns at intersections, and possibly when I brake at stop lights or stop signs, the audio volume just goes down on its own! That's never happened in any other car I've owned. I don't know if it is typical of Nissans in general, Nissan Altimas in general, or if it is a characteristic of the stereo system that is installed in it (don't know what kind). There are stereo controls on the steering wheel, and I noticed that I am not accidentally touching these controls when I make sharp or 90 degree turns. Could this be typical of car stereos with steering wheel controls?
2011-07-17T16:56:00Z
Sorry, it's a 2006 Nissan Altima!
?2011-07-17T16:33:30Z
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sounds like a loose connection or the radio problem itself , u can tack it to nissan and they can hook it up to the computer , and tell u what code it has , if any , i would remove the redio & check for a lose conn first & make sure all fuse are good & tight.
Definitely not typical. I've never heard of that (or anything similar) on factory systems...however I have seen stuff like that happen when people have garbage aftermarket equipment (boss, legacy, pyramid, lanzar etc.) When I was an installer, I remember a couple of instances when someone had a similar problem with a Hitron amp...we swapped it out for a Rockford and everything worked fine.
One other thing you could check would be the ground on the headunit (if it is aftermarket). Nissan doesn't have a ground wire in their factory wiring (factory radio gets ground through antenna)...so you would want to check to make sure the headunit has a separate ground wire hooked up BUT the lack of proper ground usually causes a different problem...it causes the headunit to become distorted/shutoff once you reach a particular point on the volume.
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