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August 14, 2005 / Sunday
Static Be Gone!
I haven't mentioned it here, but the speaker static in my car came back a few weeks ago, and finally got bad enough that I decided to pull the headunit out to try to fix it. This time, I figured out what the problem was, but I still can't reproduce it, and I can't think of a good way to permanently fix it.
Turns out the bad connection points are in the the wiring harness that goes into the headunit. There's not a lot of room behind the headunit, and the wires coming out of the back are immediately bent at a 90 degree angle and squished. Over time, vibrations from driving jar them loose. Strangely, once I pull the headunit out and straighten the wires a bit, I can't rebend and/or wiggle them to make them spit out the same static.
Since the only way they'll fit is in the bent and squished configuration, I bent them carefully, bunched them together, and squished as much as I could when I pushed the headunit back in. I hope that supersquishing them will keep them in place.
August 14, 2005 01:48 PM | Audio