The Pioneer DEH-P77MP radio I have right now is dying. I have to keep tapping the faceplate to get the thing to jump into life. Its pretty old. I wanted a radio that fits into the style of my car, I had been thinking of a Retrosound Laguna, but these are £200+.
At a tenner, I can take the thing apart and make a nicer faceplate. And that tombstone is a pretty crowded area, what with the window toggle switches and WolfMiata window closure box. So the lack of depth is a bit of an advantage.
CDs are now dead to me.
Its FM only,
Anyone seen these. Aware that it will never sound like the best, but as long as its similar to a 20 year old Pioneer, I don’t mind.
You might be able to repair the Pioneer. Tapping to make it work sounds like the usual cracked solder joints - easily fixed.
I used to repair car radios as a lunch-break activity at work. Most faults on the modern radios were because of switches and connectors and hot items (eg the power amp chips) cracking the solder where their pins went through the circuit board. Carefully running a soldering iron and fresh solder around all the potentially dodgy joints fixed about two thirds of the problems. Some of the others tended to be terminal and beyond any kind of repair, often where too many resets of the security code had run out of flash locations, or more rarely where the tops of the ICs had left the circuit board along with their contents, just leaving a bad smell behind.
I don’t have much proper test gear now I’m retired, so can only repair the simplest of faults - such as the bad connections.
Assume your Pioneer has a drop down front panel for access to the CD slot. If so the flexible PCB type ribbon that connects front to back are prone to failure.
