Place to service FM tape player

[TomoHawk]

My 280Z has an AudioVox (pull-out) AM/FM cassette receiver, and I'd like to get it serviced/rebuilt. The tape player doesn't track right and it once tried to eat my tape.

Are there any good places that work on 80's car stereo equipment, to send the radio while the cars laid up?

I'm in Cleveland, Ohio.

thx

[CoastGuardZ]

Hey tomo,

might cost more than it's worth.

If you're stuck on cassettes-

Crutchfield has a Sony Xplod XR-ca350x for $89.99

detachable face and 22x4 RMS. And you know the amplifer is gonna be leaps and bounds better.

my 2 cents

[TomoHawk]

I've seen the catalogs, thx. But I'd like to keep the period-looking radio that's in there. It's got two channels, which is perfect for the car, and I don't like to carry CDs in the car.

thx

[CoastGuardZ]

yeah,

that's why I mentioned the Sony cassette receiver. As you may know you can just bridge the Right F&R , and bridge the Left F&R to end up with a 2 channel set-up.

I'll see if i can dig it up, but I recall seeing that Pioneer and Kenwood were making new Cassette receivers that had the physical look of older units. One of them even had a shaft style unit that looked like an early 70's GM unit. I'll see if I can find them again.

Happy hunting.

Nate

[CoastGuardZ]

Have you seen these guys yet Elliot Electronics ?

[LanceM]

They were built to be disposable, time to "dispose"

I have a high dollar Sony that I put in my Z 20 years ago with an amp and speakers that I'm taking out and will part with, probably dosen't have 25 hours of use on it,(AM/FM Cassette) I'm switching to CD. It's an XR-70 if the model # means anything anymore....

[TomoHawk]

There's really nothing wrong with my unit, except it's a little gunked up & I wouldn't know what to clean to get it to work better.

[LanceM]

You'd be suprised, if it is as old as the car it is more than just gunked up if it has been used alot. The drive bands all need to be replaced, the drive wheel if you can find one is needed, the head is probably shot (tapes are abrasive) along with just normal wear and tear on any old dried out nylon parts in the rest of it...

It isn't stock so it's a mute point now, if you want the "retro" look well OK, nobody that grew up with 8-tracks, then saw how great cassets were would keep either one for the convience of CD...

But then I'm old enough to have had all three and would know.....

[sblake01]

........It isn't stock so it's a mute point now, if you want the "retro" look well OK, nobody that grew up with 8-tracks, then saw how great cassets were would keep either one for the convience of CD...

But then I'm old enough to have had all three and would know.....

Oh yeah? I can top that. I've had cars with 4-track tape decks in them!

[LanceM]

Forgot that one!!! I saw them but never owned one, sure wouldn't want one now !!!