Hi all,

 

Hoping that someone can help, sorry if this has been asked before(I couldn’t find anything on it). I’ve got a Skoda Fabia 1.2 2003 model, only had 2 owners, always been in the family so very familiar with the history of the car. Never had many issues with it.

 

About a year ago the connection between my radio player and speakers seemed to start playing up. Sometimes it would only play out of one speaker until I went over one of many potholes in the U.K.! We found the fix would be to hit near where the speakers were depending which was on playing up, fast forward a few months and both speakers would cut out occasionally, quickly fixed by pushing the actual radio unit from the front or underneath seemed to jig it back into place. The past week it hasn’t worked at all despite trying all these things. Randomly worked for about 5 minutes after going over a bump, until I took a sharp turn and it decided to cut out again. Turning volume up and down used to work as well.

 

More inconvenient than anything but wanting to get it fixed ASAP, all garages are shut for anything non-essential so can’t get anyone to look at the moment.

 

Few more details; only have front speakers connected, it’s the original radio, tape cassette and all! I did ask a garage to have a look when they did my MOT, said they removed and couldn’t see anything wrong but not sure whether they actually did.

 

Any ideas of what I could do or look at will be appreciated! 
 

Thank you all 

 

:)

Check the wiring loom in the concertina rubber gaitor between the door(s) and the body A pillar. The wires in the loom break here with  flexing over time and  insulation also goes brittle and breaks. Pull the rubber concertina back carefully and it should be obvious.

Take care when pulling the boot back as the wires are often in a bit of a state and close to further breaking and/or shorts leading to central locking and electric windows problems with blown fuses if wires do short (due to the brittle insulation crumbling off) 

 

You will need to be handy with a soldering iron and splicing in some fresh wiring.....

 

 

Edited 12 May, 20206 yr by xman

Its possible the coil of the speaker has an intermittent connection which is sometimes remade by vibration of the speaker from mechanical movement ie bump in the road, or because the coil and its connections move to make sound. Either replace with a known good speaker,or remove the speaker and connect it to an ohmeter.The ohmeter will read about 4 ohms if the coil is intact. Carefully move the cone with two thumbs ,and see if the resistance changes.

 

 

 

Edited 15 May, 20206 yr by AndyPandy