ever had one of those days? possibly one of those weeks?

Think im having on of those lifetimes!!?!!!!!?????

Been sat in ALL day screwing over the damage to my car and finally decided to get the house a couple of hours ago, and the icing on the fucking cake when i put my stereo face on:



FUCKKKKK SAKEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

i got a good top model working headunit for sale if youre interested

 

its not too late to sprint into town centre and get shit faced to drown your pain

 

pfffffft, ive got a girl ive known for a while hounding me to go out but i just cant face it, got the worst headache ever.........i do wonder whether i should just go for it

 

other option is go sleep and go fiesta in the park tomoro. sure that will give you inspiration to carry on with the cab

 

i'm sure it'll piss me off seeing pristine mohair roofs

 

Get down the Blue Room

 

see it aint only me, plus you can join me kicking the lads corsa panels in thats going with us

like i said, u will be there!!!!!!

 

and if you kept the old ford wind n find then......

 

 

i had one of those weeks and one of thoses headaches when i picked my car up the other day , paying Ł955 and it still not perfect . i juts took 3 nurofen and went to bed

 

not your week at all

 

Why what happend mate? RE; The damage to your car?

 

shane, https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...520&highlight=

 

Dazza, were u sat in Williams car park lastnight? I hate pullin in there i never know any fucker

 

my stereo did that after 13 months toooo (just out of warrenty)

was seriously pissed as it cost 500 quid and had to pay another 170 to have it repaired

 

well.......i'm a little happier now anyway.

Some poor quality soldering in the faceplate was causing the fault, the red box on the left was particularly bad, all the solder joints had snapped where the ribbon doesn't sit against the board very well (pen used a yardstick so you can see how small the solder joints were )



there was also another set of joints the same as the box on the right that needed soldering, just not pictured

VOILA!!!!!!!

 

It looked better before

Dave.

 

 

Least you sorted it ya clever coont. Stop whinging.

Can you replace head-unit lasers mate?

 

duno probably could, depends how involved it is........

If its a straight drop in replacement then yea i could, if it needs setting up then i doubt i have enough knowledge.

And have you got a new laser for it? Not usually worth doing unless its a really good unit

 

Not got a laser. It's a good unit but out of warranty. Looks like new, but laser does not read the discs anymore. Been quoted Ł60 by Kenwood..and altho I've just bought a new head-unit it's a shame to bin this one

 

nothings worth anything anymore, electronics across the board have become so cheap its not worth fixing anything really

I had a go at fixing that because if you tapped the faceplate it would interfere so i hoped it was a soldering fix, and plus the fact that was anything between Ł500-Ł800 back in its day, the laser is possibly on its way out in that thoughnow, its old, might just need the lense cleaning but i doubt it

What was yours worth new?

 

Ł300. Have already cleaned the lens but comes up with TOC Error when trying to read disc or sometimes plays 'every other bar' in a norman collier broken microphone way.

 

What did you clean the lense with?

 

Clean cloth to begin with as I didn't want to use white spirit or similar and was a quick attempt in case it was a bit dusty from the cd's being in the car and transferring across.

 

From an extremely clever bloke i know ive picked up tips over the years, a couple of other things to try are blowing the laser assembly out with a can of air duster (invertible stuff is best incase it should decide to spray the propellant out), and also he mentioned removing the laser assemly, putting it in a piece of foil with some isopropyl alcohol, wrapping it up and giving it a shame to clean it.

Apparently the mirror below the lense also gets dirty.

Me myself i clean lenses with a cotton bud and non smear glass cleaner