anyone have any experience with the steering wheel controls in an 02 nissan maxima?
 

drop me a line if you do. my down button hasn't been working for a long time and I don't know what to do about it. thanks

good thing you posted this in the installation section too

I realize, and apologize profusely. I just really want to figure this out and figured posting here would get more traffic. you can delete the one in the installation section if you want.

stock or aftermarket?

I probably should have added some more info, but I was trying to pretend like I didn't double post lol. The steering wheel controls are stock, but I have an aftermarket deck installed. I know the down button works because every time I take my car in to get fixed it starts working continuously for a few days, and when my battery died it worked for a few hours. The next song and higher volume buttons work too, just sometimes not the lower volume and the previous song button hardly ever works. I don't know what could be wrong.

edit: the deck is an alpine IVA-W505 if that helps.

might be the aftermarket modual that u have to program that is defective and cant retain the memory properly. who installed it? how long ago and do u know what make of the modual is?

I got it installed at advance here in winnipeg. I figured it was something to do with programming, and have brought it in a few times to get re-programmed, which is when it works for a few days. I don't see how it could be the modual though since it's only the down buttons that have issues

personnaly i would change the modual and if it continues then its the steering control that has issues

i just cant see the deck having the issue.

I figure it must be the deck since this didn't start happening until I got the deck installed. is there any simple way to replace it? i'm pretty new to this and don't feel like taking it in again.

Get the installer to put a new one in, trust me you do not want to do this yourself. Seriously.