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I inherited the car from my dad and have not had a chance to put a CD player in the car, so that part is explained. When I try to play tapes or my discman via the tape player, the passenger side speakers don't work. Do I just need to clean the heads or is there a wiring problem? I'd like to get that resolved before I install speakers and a CD player. Also, I've read that people ahve installed good speakers in just the front and left the stock speakers in back, does this work well? It seems more economically feasible, so anyone have any experience with this that can give some hints? Thanks!
Rob T.
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It sounds like your tape head is dirty or misaligned. A new CD player should fix your problem.  Swapping out the rear speakers is way down on the list to a better sounding stereo in a Tour.
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What's a tape player? try cleaning the heads. If that doesn't work, you're not out a bunch of $$$... For the speakers, unless you have a lot of back seat passengers or action , just disconnect them. Get some nice ones for up front.
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Originally posted by Rob T.:
I inherited the car from my dad and have not had a chance to put a CD player in the car, so that part is explained. When I try to play tapes or my discman via the tape player, the passenger side speakers don't work. Do I just need to clean the heads or is there a wiring problem? I'd like to get that resolved before I install speakers and a CD player. Also, I've read that people ahve installed good speakers in just the front and left the stock speakers in back, does this work well? It seems more economically feasible, so anyone have any experience with this that can give some hints? Thanks! I had the same problem back in the day when I had a tape player. :p Just get a CD player. It will solve your problem. I never got the other side to play and my tape deck was new. So it wasn't a cleaning issue.
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If the stereo plays fine on the FM just not on the tape player then replace the stereo or clean the heads. If it is playing fine with a normal tape and doesn't work with your walkman than buy another adapter, that one is defective.
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tape? me no understand tape
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Rob, 99% sure it's the tape adaptor you're using. Those things are really fragile. Get a new one and I bet you'll be fine. Be gentle with the cord on it because if it gets pulled even a little bit half the sound drops out because I guess it frays the connection.
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