How to cure car cassette adapter "auto-reverse flip-flop"

Step 3 Remove trouble-maker

Go ahead and whip it out! Hopefully it will look something like my photo.

Be careful not to disturb the other stuff in there, or if you do, put it back where you found it! All the other bits are necessary!

It might be worth memorizing where the bits go (or take a photo) before you start fiddling with it. But if you're like me you will realize this after you have dropped it and spread the gears all over the floor.

Comments

[TheOnlyJon]

This worked perfectly for my Scosche cassette adapter! No more annoying clicking noises! I was still hearing the gears turning which was a nuisance, so I just went ahead and removed all of the gears and guts, leaving ONLY the metal contacts and the circuit board. I figured that what I was hearing were the plastic gears turning and rubbing up against the plastic inside of the tape.

Sure enough, after removing all of the gears, including the "teeth" that catch the tape spinner inside of the cassette player, it was silent. With the volume at zero, I heard nothing but silence. I hit play on my iPod and it was like listening to a CD. No gear-spinning noise...no clicking...just music.

Thank you!!!

[wmeloling]

warmel :it worked great the first time thanks

[mwicks1]

YES!! it worked. now i dont have to listen to the scratchy sound of the radio anymore.

[kbiggins]

Absolutely Worked!

[rlumpy]

Fantastic. I had already opened mine up and was wondering why it had that do-hickey in there. It sort of comes over and puts the brakes on whole thing, it makes no sense. I was gonna rip that thing out since I had nothing to lose. I decided first to see if there was any help on the net. Bingo, there you were with the exact problem and fix.

Thanks

[sclaus1048]

Sorry. It didn't work for me. My Volvo still spits out the tape adapter. And yes, I followed dupecoop's advice for a re-do, Perhaps's it's the audio device in the car itself that is causing the rejection.

[dupecoop]

Thanks. This worked! You have to be very careful reassembling the cassette. The first time I put it back together, it didn't work properly. I took it apart and back together again and now it's working great.