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  • From: John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: OT: Car audio advice
  • Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:08:44 GMT

Christiane Voisin wrote:

> Thanks so much Ron, James and Will for these suggestions. Thanks to
> you James for being willing to ask your electronics instructor about
> it.
>
> I've had the battery, which was old and bad, replaced... didn't help.
> I don't have a manual (i am third owner of this bad boy). o,
> technology... i have no magic little hole for paperclip insertion and
> i'm a typical woman not knowing what the heck to do with a fuse. i
> don't think i want to do any ziplock freezy reset :-) but that's
> entertaining.
>
> xiane
>
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, ron thigpen wrote:
>
>> Christiane Voisin wrote:
>>> I am having electrical problems in my 1994 Honda Civic.
>>
>> CD player may not be getting enough juice to be able to take the
>> code. Try hooking yourself up as if for a jumpstart, then try the
>> code again.
>>
>> If the CD isn't taking the code, it may have 'forgotten' it and
>> reverted to a default. If you aren't risking locking yourself out
>> entirely with too many retrys (read the manual), you could try
>> entering obvious default codes like '00000'.
>>
>> Some lore exists indicating that you can take a code-locked player,
>> seal it in a Ziploc and freeze it for awhile to reset the codes.
>> Sketchy, and maybe specific to certain players, but there it is.
>>
>> As for the rest, sounds like an undervoltage situation. Lots of
>> potential causes, battery may be getting weak, voltage regulator
>> going, bad grounding, etc. This sort of thing, an auto repair place
>> may be able to deal with.
>>


I might get thrown out of the club, but I am going to let you in on a
closely held men's secret: We usually don't know what's going on with
the fuse boxes either, but we fake it. Give it a look. The brown crusty
one is the one that is damaged.




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