There is one other thing you can do to get you by while you save up for a new radio. Go to Radio Shack and get a spray can of Electronic Contact Cleaner.
Pop the volume knob off. The metal shaft turns inside a metal sleeve. Use the straw to spray between the two while you turn the shaft back and forth quickly.
Do this several times at the 12, 3, 6 and 9 o'clock positions. It will clean off the carbon buildup on the wiper arm of the potentiometer (volume control).
This should buy you 6 months to a year of life for the radio. Then you just do it again. At some point the pot will have to be replaced though.
A lot of people call contact cleaner, Electronic Repairman In A Can.
2005 2.3L XL Electronics Tech since '70's
__________________
2005 2.3L XL 5SOD 3.73 K&N
KYB Shocks Husky Toolbox
Alpine / Rockford Fosgate Sound
"Ask me about my AC Vent fix!"
|