Eclipse AVN5435

I brought my car back to the installer and had them fix a couple things.  As I mentioned before, my chimes were way to loud...... they fixed this problem by wrapping the module with a piece of carpet to muffle it.  Also, my unit would not dim when the automatic lights went on..... they had a wire connected in the wrong spot.  I have no more complaints now about this whole installation. 

The AVN5435 is just awesome!!

Is there a way while using the Navigation to completely mute the stereo so all that is coming out of the speakers is the ladies voice telling you where to go?

Yes, press the MUTE button, it kills the music but not the nav voice.  However, you cannot get the nav voice with the PWR switch off, it probably uses some part of the audio circuit for the voice.

I agree, it is awesome.  But as always, I'm never completely satisfied, I wish they had put the clock display on the "AUDIO OFF" screen.

Back to an earlier question I had......

I have a raspy noise coming out of my front right speaker, and when I accelerate the car the raspy noise gets higher in pitch.   Does anyone know what this could be?  i.e. the speaker or crossed wires?

This problem comes and goes sporadically, but recently it's decided to stay around for a while. 

Has anyone else had this problem?

Sounds like ignition interference.   Normally they install resistors to deal with this.  I personally do not have this issue, my sound is excellent (at least to me it is).  I suggest you take it back to your installer, they should know how to deal with it.

was your installer authorized by eclipse? i would assume so since you spent so much money but it sounds like they missed quite a few things. i had a single din eclipse a few years back with similar noise problems and the unit was just installed wrong, called eclipse and they paid for me to have it installed somewhere else. way to many common issues that your describing. hopefully you can get it fixed.

I have a Motorola IHF1000 installed in my car.  Since there is no external mute connection to the AVN5435, my installer connected the mute line from the IHF1000 to a relay which turns the external amp on and off.  This effectively mutes the sound without turning off the HU.  This was possible because my Corvette has a Bose system which uses an external amp.  The only negative of this arrangement is that you cannot hear the navigation audio if you are on the phone.  I assume this would work with any external amp. 

If you don't have an external amp you could have the relay kill the power to the unit.  This is a poor solution because you not only lose the audio but also the navigation display.  Also when the power is restored you have to respond to the annoying "I Agree" screen.

Hope this helps.

AVN5435,

Our shop[ has installed about 6 of these units, but we are having an issue with the navigation voice not coming out of the low level inputs. we had this problem once before and figured it out but no one remembers what we did. So please if anyone has had this issue let me know.