Odd Radio Behavior

[M. Brumbaugh]

I've got an '03 WRX Wagon. I also listen to A LOT of audio books.
Since I get most of them from the public library - probably 80% of
them are on tape...

In the last 10 days, my tape deck has simply stopped and gone dark 4
times now. For no reason I can figure out - there isn't a pattern of
other things running or anything like that (ie: Lights on, defrost
running, etc). I can say tt does happen after the cars been running
awhile, I'm seldom in the car for less than 30 minutes at a time -
usually more like 60 minutes for my commute.

After it stops, I can eject the cassette and reinsert it and the radio
will act normally. The problem has never happened twice during the
same driving session.

Any thoughts???

Mollie

 

[lmnop]

Sounds to me like it may be a fuse that is not tight. Gets warm, breaks the
connection, and turns your stereo off in the process. In the time that it
takes to turn it back on the fuse would cool down.
And maybe an internal thermal shutoff switch inside of the stereo doing it's
job.

 

[pickle]

I've got an '03 WRX Wagon. I also listen to A LOT of audio books.
Since I get most of them from the public library - probably 80% of
them are on tape...

In the last 10 days, my tape deck has simply stopped and gone dark 4
times now. For no reason I can figure out - there isn't a pattern of
other things running or anything like that (ie: Lights on, defrost
running, etc). I can say tt does happen after the cars been running
awhile, I'm seldom in the car for less than 30 minutes at a time -
usually more like 60 minutes for my commute.

After it stops, I can eject the cassette and reinsert it and the radio
will act normally. The problem has never happened twice during the
same driving session.

I had a wierd radio thing in my 04 OBW a couple of weeks ago.
I was sitting in a parking lot listening to the radio and the volume
started going up by itself. The numbers increased and everything.
I had just hung up my cell phone.
Don't know if that had anything to do with it or not.