Kenwood DNX9140 Remote Wire not working

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So I've started having a problem with the Remote wire (I think Kenwood calls it Power Control). After it's been working without a problem for over a year, all of a sudden one day I turn on my car and my amp didn't turn on.

After doing a bunch of investigating I found that the remote wire connection directly out of the harness wasn't sending any power. It wasn't the line, but either the harness or the head unit itself. So for my morning drive to work I ran with a wire going from the amp's positive to remote while I was driving. A few hours later, I go out to my car to go to an audio shop so they can look at it, and it just started working again! I went home that afternoon, and I checked the remote line from the harness, and sure enough I was getting power through it again. I did some research and it seems like other people with Kenwood head units have had a problem where the remote connection just stops working.

It was fine for about a month, and just yesterday it happened again.

I'm going to check out the harness again, maybe it's loose (it didn't look like it the first time). But if the remote line is indeed dead, is there another connection that I can use for remote instead? I'd rather not send it in for warranty work since then I'd be without a head unit for at least a month or two.

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