1TONK5
07-08-2008, 04:23 AM
Vehicle: 2001 Alero 3.4/auto/97k miles/completely stock
Cliffs:
After a sudden hard-braking incident, radio malfunctions for the duration of the trip home. Get home, restart the car, problem vanishes.
Full Story:
This morning at about 1AM I was cruisin home from the girl's house. I'm in a construction zone with lots of redirection and whatnot so I'm takin it easy under 30 mph when a Ford Superduty Dually pulls out from a parking lot on my right side to directly in front of me. I jab the brakes on quickly and firmly and come to a safe stop. The road is rough, and there is some gravel here and there, but the car doesn't do any sliding or notable banging around. The only exception in this event is that I've never applied the brakes so forcefully in this car before.
Anyways, he freaks and stops his leviathan cruise liner across my two lanes of traffic. I wave him on (hastily) to move his rig and he eventually complies. I don't notice until about a quarter mile down the road that my stereo isn't on anymore (completely factory setup). I rolled the volume up and nothin happens. I left it on for the time being and noticed that the speakers are crackling intermittently. The speakers seemed to only crackle when slowing to a stop from 30+mph (but not just creeping around a parking lot). This isn't any music, just a popping as if I was dragging live speaker wires across the terminals of the speakers. After leaving the radio like this for about 5 minutes and checking to see if the same thing happens for a CD, I turn the radio off for the remainder of the drive.
The car drove home just fine, no other issues to speak of. ~20 mile drive and made a stop at Whataburger when I got near my apartment. I park it at the pad, turn it off for 2-3 minutes and then makes sure it restarts. Fires off no problem. AND the radio functioned just fine. Turned it on and there was no hint that it was ever malfunctioning. I haven't bothered to drive it up to speed again yet, but I don't really know what to think of this.
Sorry for the long read, just trying to be thorough. Has anyone experienced something like this?
Cliffs:
After a sudden hard-braking incident, radio malfunctions for the duration of the trip home. Get home, restart the car, problem vanishes.
Full Story:
This morning at about 1AM I was cruisin home from the girl's house. I'm in a construction zone with lots of redirection and whatnot so I'm takin it easy under 30 mph when a Ford Superduty Dually pulls out from a parking lot on my right side to directly in front of me. I jab the brakes on quickly and firmly and come to a safe stop. The road is rough, and there is some gravel here and there, but the car doesn't do any sliding or notable banging around. The only exception in this event is that I've never applied the brakes so forcefully in this car before.
Anyways, he freaks and stops his leviathan cruise liner across my two lanes of traffic. I wave him on (hastily) to move his rig and he eventually complies. I don't notice until about a quarter mile down the road that my stereo isn't on anymore (completely factory setup). I rolled the volume up and nothin happens. I left it on for the time being and noticed that the speakers are crackling intermittently. The speakers seemed to only crackle when slowing to a stop from 30+mph (but not just creeping around a parking lot). This isn't any music, just a popping as if I was dragging live speaker wires across the terminals of the speakers. After leaving the radio like this for about 5 minutes and checking to see if the same thing happens for a CD, I turn the radio off for the remainder of the drive.
The car drove home just fine, no other issues to speak of. ~20 mile drive and made a stop at Whataburger when I got near my apartment. I park it at the pad, turn it off for 2-3 minutes and then makes sure it restarts. Fires off no problem. AND the radio functioned just fine. Turned it on and there was no hint that it was ever malfunctioning. I haven't bothered to drive it up to speed again yet, but I don't really know what to think of this.
Sorry for the long read, just trying to be thorough. Has anyone experienced something like this?