Wife has a SWING stereo in her monte carlo that has developed a "skipping" issue with the cd player, sometimes it skips part of the track ,other times it skips 4-5 tracks

Anyone else had a problem and managed to solve it?

Is it easy to swap it out for a better VAG stereo? or would I be better off looking at aftermarket?

 

Edited 31 December, 20187 yr by robsue20

Does it skip on copied discs ? or genuine ? or both ?

 

Depends on what you want, I swapped mine out for a factory Nav unit not long after getting the car, all depends on what you want really.

 

The connections are standard ISO connections, so an aftermarket unit is simple enough to do, just depends what you want and how big the budget is.

 

Plenty of swing units on Ebay, Will even sell mine if your interested.

 

As a follow on to me sorting out the wife's stereo, I decided to replace it with a Pioneer touch screen from Halfords, no cd on this one.

She is pleased with it, but , is a little fed up that it doesn't turn off when she takes the key out the ignition. I used specific iso connections, also from Halford, and assumed it would operate the same as the original Swing that was fitted. Anyone shed any light on how to make it work the same as original. TIA

Modern cars use CANBUS and the car's computer just tells the radio when to switch off. It's always live.

 

When I fitted an aftermarket stereo to our 09 Fabia - I used a 'piggy back' fuse - fitted to rear wiper fuse pos'n in fusebox below steering wheel.It is not as good as the old VW radio power system but at least you know for sure the radio is 'off' when ign switched off.

Edited 14 January, 20197 yr by YS53

7 hours ago, robsue20 said:

As a follow on to me sorting out the wife's stereo, I decided to replace it with a Pioneer touch screen from Halfords, no cd on this one.

She is pleased with it, but , is a little fed up that it doesn't turn off when she takes the key out the ignition. I used specific iso connections, also from Halford, and assumed it would operate the same as the original Swing that was fitted. Anyone shed any light on how to make it work the same as original. TIA

 

Even though you have used ISO connectors, often they are "opposite" to manufacturers wiring on the +12v Permanent live and +12v ignition switched live, so you need to check them, so find them on the car which is which and just swap them around on the ISO loom if they are different, which I suspect they are.

7 hours ago, UrbanPanzer said:

 

Even though you have used ISO connectors, often they are "opposite" to manufacturers wiring on the +12v Permanent live and +12v ignition switched live, so you need to check them, so find them on the car which is which and just swap them around on the ISO loom if they are different, which I suspect they are.

 

As above - if I remember right it's normally the red and yellow wires that have to be swapped over - it should tell you in the manual for the new stereo.

Hopefully it would be as simple as swapping the red/yellow leads - but here is my original post from my old radio thread.

 

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Just removed original 'Dance' radio from our 2009 Fabia,plugged in an Autoleads PC2-75-4 Harness adaptor  and was surprised to find the 'new' radio powered up when I plugged it in, I then swapped the red/yellow lead around to get a 'switched' power supply from the ign switch and found that the supply was still 'live'.

I then removed the Autoleads adaptor and checked the car harness plug with a multi meter and am finding that the large red wire is supplying 12v all the time with ign switched off and key removed - is this normal ?

 

 

Which is why I ended up posting -

 

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When I fitted an aftermarket stereo to our 09 Fabia - I used a 'piggy back' fuse - fitted to rear wiper fuse pos'n in fusebox below steering wheel.It is not as good as the old VW radio power system but at least you know for sure the radio is 'off' when ign switched off.