Does your HU get really hot?

[DaveDreads]

I did a round trip of about 50 miles today and both times I removed the HU face it was bloody roasting!

When I got back to my house I took the face off and pressed my hand against the HU and it was so hot
it was like pressing your hand on to a central heating radiator, I swear it's not normally like that.

Anyone else get this, or is my stereo about to burst into flames?

 

[MT AUDIO]

Have you wired in any additional speakers recently, a stereo shouldnt get so hot you cant touch it

 

[DaveDreads]

No not fiddled with it at all, it's been in there for about a year and a half and it's never felt hot before,
you can touch it, but it's just today i've noticed it getting hot.

 

[EngineerD]

The standard stereo in my old Laguna used to get too hot to touch when you ran the Sat Nav, didn't cause a problem but I have never had another stereo do it though.

 

[bozothenutter]

I had that once in an old XJ40...they have funny speakerwiring, guy that fixed it for me said i was lucky the HU wasn't burned to a crisp inside

 

[kerry-w]

I had that with one of my kenwood headunits, speaker wires in the back went funny so I think it was over amping, it actually managed to start melting the wires behind it because it got so hot.

 

[DaveDreads]

That's not good my HU is a Kenwood, hope it doesn't set fire to the car.

 

[kerry-w]

That's not good my HU is a Kenwood, hope it doesn't set fire to the car.

Mine was this one if it helps as all