In my 92 Buick Century I had a Sony cassette player that was installed back in 1999. It was pretty nice and I never had any problems with it, I didn't use the cassette player much since they are all but obsolete these days. Well my friend got rid of his old 89 Buick Park Ave. and he asked me if I wanted to buy his Sony "X-Plode" radio/CD player off him, since it won't fit in the 93 Taurus SHO he just bought. I said fine, pulled out the Sony Cassette player, noticed that the dimensions were the same on the CD Player and all the wiring connections were identical. So it plugs in with no problem and it seemed to work fine. I installed it in a rather ghetto fashion I should add. The rectangular bracket from my old cassette player headunit that holds it in doesn't fit on the cd player headunit, (my friend lost the one that came with the CD player) so I just decided to leave it off since it seemed to work fine. The only problem is that you can slide the unit in and out, making it rather easy for a thief to just pull it out and disconnect it and run.
So anyhow the radio is fine, it's 50 watts per channel, and my rear speakers are decent aftermarket MTX 6x9's, so it sounds nice to me, as nice as it will sound without an amp and subs and all that other audiophile equipment. The radio works fine, but the CD player skips occasionally. If I'm driving on the highway it's fine, but if I'm driving down a bumpy street it'll skip here and there. I just bought Pink Floyd's Echoe's album and tried that and it skipped on a bumpy road, so that rules out it being a dirty or scratched disc. Do you guys think it's the fact that it's not mounted securely that's making it skip, which probably causes the unit to shift around a bit in it's chassis? Or do you think the unit is just defective and that's why my friend wanted to sell it lol. He swears he had it for a year and it never skipped in his old Buick, and he blamed it on my suspension, which I doubt is the case.
I've been living with this for months because I don't play CD's in the car that much, just the radio mostly. Skoorb's radio installing thread got me motivated to post this question.🙂 Thanks for any ideas
So anyhow the radio is fine, it's 50 watts per channel, and my rear speakers are decent aftermarket MTX 6x9's, so it sounds nice to me, as nice as it will sound without an amp and subs and all that other audiophile equipment. The radio works fine, but the CD player skips occasionally. If I'm driving on the highway it's fine, but if I'm driving down a bumpy street it'll skip here and there. I just bought Pink Floyd's Echoe's album and tried that and it skipped on a bumpy road, so that rules out it being a dirty or scratched disc. Do you guys think it's the fact that it's not mounted securely that's making it skip, which probably causes the unit to shift around a bit in it's chassis? Or do you think the unit is just defective and that's why my friend wanted to sell it lol. He swears he had it for a year and it never skipped in his old Buick, and he blamed it on my suspension, which I doubt is the case.
I've been living with this for months because I don't play CD's in the car that much, just the radio mostly. Skoorb's radio installing thread got me motivated to post this question.🙂 Thanks for any ideas
