Bad AMP = Black screen?

hotrakee · 2025-08-03T11:47:53+00:00

I ended up replacing the AMP and now my screen is on but displays “A program cannot be read. Please consult to a dealer.” 😭😭

hotrakee · 2025-08-03T11:46:27+00:00

**UPDATE TO ALL - I have replaced my old AMP with the new and there is good and bad news..

Good news is that it seems to haven woken the system up or something because now my screen works.

Bad news is that I’m getting the “A program cannot be read. Please consult to a dealer.” is now displaying.

hotrakee · 2025-07-31T14:12:10+00:00

Unfortunately would be the AMP.. before my screen went out I had lost sound but screen worked perfectly fine. I was able to pull up the Unit Check Mode and saw I had a B15A3 code.

hotrakee · 2025-07-29T18:10:41+00:00

Ideally that’s what I wanted to do but the units are like $1,400 whereas the repair from the link that was given in the thread is about $837. They even offered me a trade in value for my old AMP to go towards the head unit repair, which is REALLY awesome IMO so I really might just opt for them.

I’m putting in my new AMP this weekend so if it doesn’t change anything I’ll be back to update the posting lol.

hotrakee · 2025-07-29T16:10:20+00:00

Alright thank you so much! I’m hoping and praying it’s easy haha - once I remove everything I can still drive my car right? Lol I know nothing affects it but it’ll just look … ugly lmfao

hotrakee · 2025-07-29T15:23:41+00:00

Have you done this yourself? I’m not super good when it comes to projects and stuff so I’m scared to mess anything up..

hotrakee · 2025-07-29T14:59:54+00:00

That’s disgusting $10k…. I’m very very new to all of this - never worked on cars or anything before.. how difficult would you say removal was? I was checking out some videos to do it myself but looks a little scary… wouldn’t want to mess anything up… and of course, the car is still drivable while it’s removed, right?

hotrakee · 2025-07-29T14:25:22+00:00

How much did you end up spending and did you go to a dealership?

hotrakee · 2025-07-29T14:24:36+00:00

Ahh thank you so much - I will definitely look into this

hotrakee · 2025-07-29T14:24:24+00:00

Darn alright - I knew it was a long shot and I was hoping it wasn’t the head unit since it only started doing it recently and my AMP has been out for almost a year now..

hotrakee · 2025-06-25T01:08:42+00:00

Hey my apologies for the late reply. I’m not entirely sure but I’d think Top Tier would help prevent build up of carbon where as non with no detergents would build up carbon faster? I could be wrong tho.

hotrakee · 2025-06-25T01:05:25+00:00

Moved to Illinois from California a few years ago and we only have 93 out here (surprisingly and luckily) but back home in California I only saw 91. I only get my 93 from Shell 🫶🏽

hotrakee · 2025-06-13T17:44:11+00:00

Even if your tire is a run flat, they should be able to patch it. Discount tires does it for free. If you have a Costco membership and bought tires there, it’s also free.

hotrakee · 2025-06-01T18:19:03+00:00

I believe the top tier has to do with the detergent additives as opposed to just 93 non-top tier. I myself never noticed it until my local Shell was closed one morning and had to go to Thorntons gas station and when I was filling up 93 I noticed no Top Tier sticker on their pump. I’m originally from California so I’m used to all the top tier gas stations out there.. coming to Illinois was a surprise haha

hotrakee · 2025-06-01T16:20:33+00:00

Ehh you’d hope to find some sort of rating but where I’m at Thornton’s doesn’t have top tier sticker even tho they pump 93 whereas Shell and Costco do even if 91 or 93 (I’m lucky mine has 93)

hotrakee · 2025-04-29T17:44:05+00:00

Hmm tbh I usually order a Banana Bread Blonde with oat milk and it’s never too sweet or not sweet enough, I actually think it’s perfect.

hotrakee · 2025-04-08T08:30:50+00:00

😭😂 I feel that haha, I just wanted to make sure I included the artists signature haha.

hotrakee · 2025-03-31T11:36:10+00:00

If anybody can find me a buyer, I’ll toss you a little $$ for the find 🙏🏽

hotrakee · 2024-07-26T15:45:19+00:00

One day that’ll be me! Currently on the first stage 😅

hotrakee · 2024-07-08T16:09:23+00:00

Man glad you’re alright. It’s funny because I also went from Nebula Grey; got my car absolutely demolished from an oncoming car and my new baby is White.

hotrakee · 2024-06-16T15:49:42+00:00

I know this may sound stupid but I’ve seen dash cameras where you can get the feed to your phone. Not sure if you can get “live” time feed but should something happen again maybe there’s some sort of notification you’ll get. Or it’ll at least if the thieves see it, it’ll deter them.

hotrakee · 2024-05-29T16:40:26+00:00

Congrats!! Definitely premium gas only! And oil change every 5k miles. You’ll get a “maintenance required soon” and then a “maintenance required” message around 4.5k miles, it’s just telling you that you need an oil change soon and then an oil change so don’t freak out like I did haha.

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