Hello
Please bear with me - have searched the forums and not found my problem there so thought i would ask on here.
Proud owner of a pretty mint 2001 20v Cupra and love it.
Even gone old skool and burned music to CDR to play in the multi-changer.
All is well until i go over a bump and/or have been driving for a few minutes and then all of a sudden the sound drops completely from the left channel when listening to a CD.
Note - the radio works fine so it is not a speaker/speaker cable issue.
Bizarrely if I then just gently press the fascia it comes back for a short while.
Then goes again.
I have to remove the stereo and wiggle the wires to get it to play back on the left channel.
I have removed the stereo and examined the connectors - all good (apart from noting that there is nothing connected to the earth knob in the middle of the back of the stereo).
I have examined the back of the CD multichanger and it looks ok so I can only presume that the wires have a short / break somewhere between the cd multichanger and the head unit.
Can someone tell me how the two are connected as when I have tried to pull the wiring out (from the head unit side and the cd changer side) i am getting a resistance and i don;t want to pull it too much in case I break it.
I don't want to replace the head unit or changer as i like the retro ness of it
any help /tips /pointers welcomed
thank you
Please bear with me - have searched the forums and not found my problem there so thought i would ask on here.
Proud owner of a pretty mint 2001 20v Cupra and love it.
Even gone old skool and burned music to CDR to play in the multi-changer.
All is well until i go over a bump and/or have been driving for a few minutes and then all of a sudden the sound drops completely from the left channel when listening to a CD.
Note - the radio works fine so it is not a speaker/speaker cable issue.
Bizarrely if I then just gently press the fascia it comes back for a short while.
Then goes again.
I have to remove the stereo and wiggle the wires to get it to play back on the left channel.
I have removed the stereo and examined the connectors - all good (apart from noting that there is nothing connected to the earth knob in the middle of the back of the stereo).
I have examined the back of the CD multichanger and it looks ok so I can only presume that the wires have a short / break somewhere between the cd multichanger and the head unit.
Can someone tell me how the two are connected as when I have tried to pull the wiring out (from the head unit side and the cd changer side) i am getting a resistance and i don;t want to pull it too much in case I break it.
I don't want to replace the head unit or changer as i like the retro ness of it
any help /tips /pointers welcomed
thank you
