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a friend of mine just bought this same unit at a walmart for his 1998 integra and it cuts in and out when he accelerates really hard, or when the car jerks from being downshifted really hard.

sucks dropping $180 on a deck that skips.

My friend has the same unit (4900iB) that he bought at Best Buy. Put it in my car, no problems. I talked to a friend that owns a local car audio shop and was told WalMart gets alot of B-Stock items and "bad" shipments. Guess it's true.

well tonight (~6 degrees) it started to skip when the car was at 2K rpms. i'm the problem wouldn't exist if i didn't have the racing motor mounts.

is this a reason to just return the HU and get something different? i never had this problem with the sony HU or my other alpine HU.

Now whats the difference between the Pioneer Premier 490iB and the regular 4900iB ?

could this "over heating" have caused the problem??

exchanged it for a new one. no problems with skipping now. the only thing I can think of is that the deck was pretty hot to the touch the other day. i was changing cd's and felt the cd was hot, so I pulled out the deck and sure enough the whole metal case was hot too. My ac/heat leaks a little bit a...

I have racing motor mounts in my car that are a little bit harder than the stock. It increased the vibration in the car a little bit, but I never had this problem with the sony HU I had in for a few days or the alpine I had in before this. I know it's not the cd being scratched because if I revv up ...

could I find non-polarized caps. at any local place?

pretty sure the speakers are 4 ohm (i'll test em with a meter to be sure though).

radioshack lists those capacitors (the links I posted) for use with speakers, maybe it's a generic photo? weird.

anyone?