I have a 2003 Honda Accord Coupe LX.

I put a Kenwood radio in my car, installing a harness below the built in radio/console. I was driving down a road with lots of pot holes one day, and upon hitting one, my radio suddenly turned off, and won't turn on.

Even the stock radio seems to have lost power. The stock radio used to still turn on and show the clock etc, even though I had put the custom radio in down below. Now the stock radio display won't turn on at all, no clock etc. The radio fuse is not blown. I can hit Eject on it though and it makes noise so at least the eject feature is still getting power.

My Kenwood still flashes the red light, the little fake security alarm light or whatever, behind the faceplate... so it sort of has power.. but when I put the faceplate on, it won't power on.

Any idea how I could my radio going again? It was a huge pain taking the dash apart to install the cradle for the custom radio, I'm really not looking forward to disassembling everything again if I can avoid it... I have a volt meter but haven't tried sliding the Kenwood radio out and testing it yet.

Thanks!

 

I had the same problem, check the Antenna fuse and the Radio Backup fuse, I'm guessing your car is similar to mine but I might be wrong.

My clock went dim and my radio flashed the security but wouldn't power on, it was the interior Antenna and exterior Radio/Clock Backup fuses that had blown

 

I don't have a bakcup radio or a antennae fuse listed in the manual but I'll just check all of them today real quick, thanks.