patrick31

Bump... So mine died today. Radio has the jazzy mod installed. CD player skipped when I bought it, skipped every 5-10 minutes. Got to skipping every 2-3 minutes, and was pretty much unusable. Couldn't listen to one song in full before it skips, and you have to change disk to get it to start over and work. Well, today I get in the car and nothing. No a/c, no defrost, no radio. All dead. Try key off/on a few times, try pushing every button, etc, nothing. I have the old stereo still that worked when I removed it (though it had a channel going out). I began removing the old one, and reseated each connection one at a time, testing to see if it would turn on. I had 6 of my CD's in it.... Nothing. Tried unplugging it completely, and re-plugging. Nothing. Shaking it, nothing. Hitting it, nothing. Started taking it apart. At one point I had the metal covers off, exposing the circuit boards. I'm holding the radio by the face, and my other hand touching the exposed circuit boards, and it comes alive. Wiggled all the wires, connections, nothing seemed to do anything. Now that it's working, I can't get it to fail. I start dissecting it to see what's removable (possibly going to mod the thing to install an aftermarket stereo). long story short, at some point I'm reassembling it after removing the CD player and it doesn't work, does nothing. I figure it must need that plugged in to work. So I reinstall it and sure enough, it works. But then it dies again. Hmmm.... Turns out, the connection between the stereo and the faceplate was the problem. I removed the CD player again (after getting all my cd's out of it) and the radio and a/c still work fine without the cd player. I identified 2 plugs that must be plugged into the stereo assembly for the climate control to function, the rest are only for the stereo it seems. From what I gather, modding it to install an aftermarket stereo is going to be a 10 on a 1-10 difficulty scale. Going to look at it again, but it looks like it's going to suck big time, and I could see it not working when I got done...