Radio confusion

[Traco]

Apt timing as I am confused on this also.

I have a 2003 S with CDR23 and a CDC-4 in the frunk. I get a protect error regularly now. If the car has been left for a few hours there is no problem as the system has gone to "sleep" and wakes up OK from what I can gather. If I turn it off and restart then no radio.

I have looked in the frunk and cannot see an Amp, its a non bose with only the speakers in the dash. I pulled the head unit out last summer and there is a fibre optic. I need to investigate closer but I wonder if I don't have the Amp are my speakers connected directly to the head unit and the fibre optic is the comms to the CDC-4.

Does every car have an Amp or maybe they didn't?? If not a head unit swap might be straightforward for me? I suspect the protect error is being caused by eh CDC-4 as it shuffles CD's like playing cards but won't play anything so reckon its passed its best before date.

[Deserion]

Originally Posted by Traco

Does every car have an Amp or maybe they didn't?? If not a head unit swap might be straightforward for me? I suspect the protect error is being caused by eh CDC-4 as it shuffles CD's like playing cards but won't play anything so reckon its passed its best before date.

Amp should be just rear of the spare tire.

Originally Posted by Spizzy

Thanks for that Deserion, much appreciated. My only reservation is Bervill stating they’ve experienced some incompatibility issues on some models, but I’m willing to gamble and give it a try.

Give Tore (Bergvill) an email, he's generally very helpful in answering questions. The incompatibility could be with the Bose system.

[Traco]

Originally Posted by Deserion

Amp should be just rear of the spare tire.







Give Tore (Bergvill) an email, he's generally very helpful in answering questions. The incompatibility could be with the Bose system.

Just had a look. I took off the spare and uncliped the CDC-4. I cant see an amp.

I have the fibre optics cable to changer and back to head unit and then a connector with 4 cables but can't see an amp. Nothing in by the battery or washer bottle either.

See pics for ref, have I missed it? How big is it?


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