zuk88
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After coming back from the hammers last week I noticed my Kenwwood bit the dust literally. This is my second stereo that has fallen victim to this fate, any ideas, tape it shut when weeling?
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cheesemaker
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This is the very reason I don't run a cd player in my rig! That and all the disc's get scratched to ****! Go with either a cheap tape deck and use a mp3 player with the cassette deck adapter, or a basic head unit that supports mp3, or a ipod! These are my plans when I get my truck running!
They have those marine bubble covers for the decks to keep moisture out, that might work too!
They have those marine bubble covers for the decks to keep moisture out, that might work too!
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This is the #1 reason for the ipod... The compact disk portion of my stereo crapped out over a year ago.
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You could get one of those marine covers with the roll back door over it. I've seen them from 15-30 bucks. I got one at cartoys for around 15 and didn't use it so if you want it for that let me know.
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rooinater
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aux plugin for the ipod! and a charging cable to the cigarette lighter... my cd player still plays after years of sand storms... but the eject only works with a set of needle nose pliers...
Pook
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I gave up on keeping the dirt out.
I'm planning on going the mp3/ipod route and just getting the headphone to rca type adpater and running it to an amp.
I'm planning on going the mp3/ipod route and just getting the headphone to rca type adpater and running it to an amp.
79chevy39.5's
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you guys meen to tell me you actualy have time and money to put stereo equipment into your trucks?
plus i dont need a stereo when i can just listen to my buddies laughin away at me or waitin for those nice little pops
plus i dont need a stereo when i can just listen to my buddies laughin away at me or waitin for those nice little pops
crash2
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What kind of radio do you have?
Better yet...try the VR3 stereo at Wally World that takes flash drives and memory cards in addition to CDs(why though?) and an mp3 player plugin. No skipping, no discs, no sand no flies! woops got a little bit of the iraqi information minister there
CDs are almost obsolete...for obvious reasons.
CDs are almost obsolete...for obvious reasons.
Alpine4x4
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Just take care of em. Im in eastern WA IE dust bowl and mines lasted 2 yrs. I got a decent sony and keep it clean. BLow it off from time to time with an air hose and wipe it clean. Just takes a lil tlc.
Pook
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None right now. Buggy is tuneless at this point. But killed the 2 prior cd players that were in the donor rig/ wheeler. I guess wheeling with no doors and bombing down the dusty forestry roads did them in.
I have the speakers and amp sitting in the shop from the old rig, just waiting to get a portable mp3 player or ipod. but it is way down the list i like the vroooom sound.
zuk88
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I did use an air hose on it and it went from not wanting to eject the disc to not reading it at all. I dont know if sealing the front off when wheelin will work or if the dust wrecks the deck if it comes through the back vents.
SoCal Redneck
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I use a marine cover on the stereos in our sand cars, trucks, and golf carts. never had an issue. though we're switching over to stereos that use Ipod ports so I can actually listen to the stereo at high speed and don't have to worry about skipping
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Better yet...try the VR3 stereo at Wally World that takes flash drives and memory cards in addition to CDs(why though?) and an mp3 player plugin. No skipping, no discs, no sand no flies! woops got a little bit of the iraqi information minister there
CDs are almost obsolete...for obvious reasons.
X2!! I love that deck. $85 at wally world and it doesnt skip playing cd's and all the other shiat plugs into the face.
Do you know for sure if this will work? I could be wrong but I dont think the ipod puts out the correct low level signal to control the amp volume properly. Without a preamp low level signal, you will get alot of noise and have problems controlling the volume. Two ways you could do it is if the amp has a built in high level reducer, or capability to run full power speaker powers in for the signal, you could run the 1/8th pin jack from the ipod to these terminals. You can also get some kind of power reducer module ($30), they used to sell them for head units without RCA outputs so that you can take the speaker power out from the deck, reduce it and then output to RCA jacks and then to an amp.
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fruit stripe
You'll need to run it through a pre amp converter (such as from scosche) to up the output voltage of the ipod. They put out a weak signal that sounds like crap unless you up the output of its headphone jack.
