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MamaGoose
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Nov 26, 2014

No power to in dash radio

Hello,

We have no power to our in dash radio/cd player. It has worked in the past, but this time when we started our trip south last week...nothing. The only thing that is different is that we changed all of the batteries to the motorhome. Everything else works. We've tried the rocker switch on the intrument panel and it makes no difference. Fuses on the panel on the driver's side have been checked, they look fine. There is no reset button on the front of the in dash radio panel. We have been trying to slide the radio out so we can see if there is a fuse there, but we haven't been successful in easily pulling out the radio. (There must be a simple way for these things to come out, we just haven't found it!)

We have a 2003 Fleetwood Revolution. The radio is factory installed, similar to this one:

http://www.oemautosound.com/p-148-radio-ford-6-disc-3l3t-18c815-bd.aspx

Ours is Model #3L3T-18C815-AA.

The radio is the only thing that isn't working. We had something related to our Blue Ox braking system plugged into the cigarette lighter and it works fine.

What are we missing here? Is there some way of sliding that radio out without purchasing special tools? We find this coach to be user friendly in so many ways, so I figure there must be something simple that we're missing.
  • Thanks, Fred. We've tried it with house batteries on and off, doesn't make a difference. I think there's a rocker switch to select where the radio draws power from and we've tried that as well. It doesn't help.
  • I had this happen on my first motorhome. I found that the radio was wired to the house batteries (instead of the chassis/cranking batteries) and I had turned off the house battery switch.

    Regarding sliding the radio out of the dash, some require a tool to slide along the side to release a catch.

    Fred