My head unit occasionally skips, or pauses whenever I hit a small bump in the road. This happens because my car is pretty stiff. Anyway to prevent this?

 

i don't think you can really shock proof it. the headunit is as good as it gets already. You can probably make some suspension for it, but it's not worth it and also that because the face of the headunit is fixed mounted onto the DIN that it can't move so any suspension work on it does not work well.


You can probably get one of those Sony decks that have anti-skipping stuff. They work like a charm, but you'd have to pay big bucks for them that it's not a wise route if you just need CD.


With that being said, when can i borrow your dremel? Or drop it by long's house and i'll pick it up someday

 

actually, ATF kuk here has his deck and it doesn't skip when he goes over bumpy roads, or at least I don't think it did.

It could just be the headunit that is sensitive to shocks.

 

what kind of headunit is it? Maybe it's a cheap one? Mine's dont skip at all whenever i go over any kind of bumps

 

anyone else?

 

how old is it?

if your cd player is worth keeping, send it in to get the laser recalibrated. the laser tends to come out of alignment after time due to vibrations, the road or the earth's gravational pull. don't bother with the "cd lens cleaners" they don't work.

otherwise, buy a new cd player.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dc24me &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">how old is it?

if your cd player is worth keeping, send it in to get the laser recalibrated. the laser tends to come out of alignment after time due to vibrations, the road or the earth's gravational pull. don't bother with the "cd lens cleaners" they don't work.

otherwise, buy a new cd player. </TD></TR></TABLE>


Liar... they work... just prob wont help in this situation.

 

he has like 500/550 spring rate or something like that, for his suspension. the deck is a 9803 deck.

time for a different deck. booo to low-end alpine

 

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Liar... they work... just prob wont help in this situation.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Are you offering any input or insight to help this guy out? at least i tried to leave something useful besides contradicting myself and being a dick.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Ti3d in &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My head unit occasionally skips, or pauses whenever I hit a small bump in the road. This happens because my car is pretty stiff. Anyway to prevent this?</TD></TR></TABLE> The trick is to make sure the HU is solidly mounted, the cd transport has suspention on it and for it to work properly the HU needs to be mounted rock solid, if the Hu can move around, [back bounce up and down, because of no backbrace] the transports suspention can not work properly.

CD lens cleaners, [good ones] do work to keep the lens clean, they can not clean something that is stuck on the lens, they also can't realign a lens, and cheap lens cleaners can knock a lens out of alignment 94