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Retroanaconda

Member Since: 04 Jan 2012
Location: Scotland
Posts: 2551

Old head units...

Do head units start to give up as they get older?

I have a Sony CD head unit in my car which is about ten years old, it's been in the Land Rover for the last eight of those. It has started to become fussy about picking up FM stations - it won't find any on autoseek except for Radio 2 but if I manually seek to the relevant frequencies I can pick up other stations, local and national, so the signal and aerial must be ok?

I'm wondering if it's getting old and something is starting to fail inside.

10th Apr 2016 12:30pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 19578

They can do.
Mine is playing up a bit on and off but that's due to the faceplate.

They do take a battering in the Defender, it's all the vibration etc.

10th Apr 2016 12:57pm

Retroanaconda

Member Since: 04 Jan 2012
Location: Scotland
Posts: 2551

Thanks.

They're not that expensive for the sort I would be after (basic as they come), so I may just buy a new one and see.

10th Apr 2016 5:38pm

miker

Member Since: 13 Sep 2015
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1758

It could be the circuitry inside is degrading, but it's more likely I'd say that the aerial wiring or connection is degrading. Enough that the seek processing can't determine the signal, but not enough that you car hear a difference?

10th Apr 2016 6:40pm

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