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Stereo playing up
« on: 10 August 2011, 22:54 »
oks in my Mk4 i ve got a Gamma unit CD and Tape deck and recently when i turn the volume nob the sound  don't always go up i can keep turning it up and nothing then suddenly it well be loud then i turn the other way about one 5th of a turn and it goes super quite.

Any thoughts on the problem ?

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Re: Stereo playing up
« Reply #1 on: 11 August 2011, 12:10 »
Sounds like a dirty/worn volume pot, disasemble and spray some contact cleaner in it, might cure it?

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Re: Stereo playing up
« Reply #2 on: 11 August 2011, 17:59 »
Sounds like a dirty/worn volume pot, disasemble and spray some contact cleaner in it, might cure it?

how do i dissemble the volume nob or is it strip radio out and open it up joby?

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Re: Stereo playing up
« Reply #3 on: 11 August 2011, 18:30 »
Yes its a remove stereo and partial disasemble job I'm affraid, can you do that or?

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Re: Stereo playing up
« Reply #4 on: 11 August 2011, 21:47 »
Yes its a remove stereo and partial disasemble job I'm affraid, can you do that or?

ill give anything a go once, if it foobars up just a excuse to replace with a double din lol

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Re: Stereo playing up
« Reply #5 on: 12 August 2011, 01:38 »
If you need any advice shoot me a PM  :wink:

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Re: Stereo playing up
« Reply #6 on: 12 August 2011, 07:19 »
If you need any advice shoot me a PM  :wink:
Nice1 I am shore I well have to lol

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Re: Stereo playing up
« Reply #7 on: 12 August 2011, 19:25 »
hi can anyone plz help me, have 1997 golf gti, stereo is playing up, i tryed different stereos, and its just cutting up all the time  :sad:
its has power, just cutting radios and tapes, no idea why?  can anyone help me with wiring .. thannx :huh:

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Re: Stereo playing up
« Reply #8 on: 12 August 2011, 20:49 »
hi can anyone plz help me, have 1997 golf gti, stereo is playing up, i tryed different stereos, and its just cutting up all the time  :sad:
its has power, just cutting radios and tapes, no idea why?  can anyone help me with wiring .. thannx :huh:

Hi, has the wiring been changed about?/any adaptors?
What head unit is it? the factory Sony?

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Re: Stereo playing up
« Reply #9 on: 15 August 2011, 11:26 »
hi wiring is same as my hubby has ford escort and its working well there, its sony stereo! not factory fitted!  no idea why its cutting out! thanx