beetle suspension + CD-player = scratched CD\'s

killakornkobb where's that clutch?

1,663 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 30 Sep 2004, 7:38 pm

#239922

my CD's are getting hacked up whenever i hit a bump.. admittedly it is an old CD player.. and not on rubber mounts.

im also lowering the beetle hopfully next weekend.. so the ride will probably get a bit rougher! do rubber mounts help at all? and do newer CD players have anything to guard against the skipping/scratching in a carsh/pothole??

Tagedeezee Heezy

barls Administrator Causer of Chaos and Mayhem

9,473 posts · joined Jun 2004 · 30 Sep 2004, 7:41 pm

#239927

yeah the newer head decks have better skip protection. but its most likely that the springs in your head unit are weak and worn.

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1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 30 Sep 2004, 9:58 pm

#240031

Hi

I never had a problem with my car and it ran 40 series tyres with hard suspension, maybe its the old style unit, mine was also mounted under the drivers seat which evens things out a bit.

Steve

ByronBug High Priestess of Unequaled Coolness & Flower Child

1,446 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 30 Sep 2004, 10:35 pm

#240051

:sandrine
Yep happened to me...
My suspension was stuffed so bad in the bug & I had a nice stereo.
A lack of suspension was causing all the problems.
Then I got konis shockees fitted in the front, new rubbers & torsion bar fixed, etc & never a scatched cd now.
My unit was in the glovebox
Judy

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