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

Step 5 Decide its fate...

While part of me wants to suggest you immediately crush this part under your foot, it's probably best you make sure your adapter still works first. After you've confirmed this, feel free to dispose of it how you see fit...

Comments

[jordan314]

Thanks!! This has been bothering me for 12 years in my old car. Punching the dash and screaming at it never helped. :) My tape adapter is similar but less complicated. I just removed one of the gears that stopped it from only going in one direction. It makes a louder whirring noise now but is easily drowned out by my ipod! Woo!

[TheOnlyJon]

From my reply above (I have a Scosche adapter):

"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."

[jwheeler8]

yeah same here makes a louder whirling noise but cant hear it with my ipod turned up! XP

[unclebill]

i'll be darned.
i love an easy fix!
thank you!

[lordnasher2010]

i did what you said to do but it does not have any sound now. it plays the tape w/o flipping. turn the radio and the cd player up to maximum. or does this trick not even work for cd players

[psychick1331]

Thank you so much!  I got a very cheap cassette adapter because there was no way I was dropping $80 for a radio adapter, but soon after that irritating flipping began.  I followed your steps and lo and behold, no more flipping!  Several of my friends have asked me to do this trick as well, leading them to the mistaken impression that I'm mechanically handy- added bonus!

[Angus MacGyver]

Thanks a million. I bought one of those since I have lots of music on my Crackberry. Unfortunately the car stereo is a Bose (which did nothing but filp over). Now I can play the stuff in my phone. The only downside is that the quality isn't as good as patching into my home stereo but it's better than nothing.

[legitmik]

I too subjected my cassette adaptor to some dashboard impact maintenance and the 'swearing loudly in traffic' test, both to no avail. I did reckon someone had worked this out and google sent me here. This is my second one as the first is in a hedge somewhere between Belfast and Derry... Cheers.