Infinity Radio Problem

[turbokid]

96 LHS will have that radio and you can find them with cd players.

[ke6960]

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Originally Posted by turbokid 96 LHS will have that radio and you can find them with cd players.

alot of those radios had problems my mothers old (sold) 96 lhs radio had a short or something and never acted right (got the car used though) and my dads 02 ram if you are listening to a burnt cd and try to change the song to any number over 4 or 5 it takes forever to start and sometimes dosnt unless you eject the cd and play a lower number (however if you listen to the cd all the way through it has no problems) they had the same radio (as far as you could tell from the front)

[kermit]

LOL...just buy a cd player...

I believe that later chryslers (1st gen neons, stratus...) have similar style radio and the same connectors. If you are having a hard time finding a radio from one of those, then you just plan aren't looking hard enough.

[Oklahoma Wolf]

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Originally Posted by ke6960 alot of those radios had problems my mothers old (sold) 96 lhs radio had a short or something and never acted right

Yeah, there's a few common issues with the CD/cassette combo decks. Most of the time it's either the buttons don't register being pushed or control the wrong functions, the CD laser goes out of alignment and spits out CDs, or the volume pot gets dirty and goes erratic. Less common is the FM tuner going out due to bad solder joints.

I was actually doing pretty well for a while buying these flaky combo decks off eBay, fixing them up, and selling them again for profit. The last one I did had an Infinity logo on it - those are hard to come by as Chrysler stopped putting that logo on their radios around the time these were introduced.

Stopped doing that when I tried to extend that little side business to GM CD players and one only worked for a week after I fixed it.

[newmember]

Well I'm looking pretty hard and can tell you where 5 neons sit in a junkyard, and each one is minus the radio. Not too worried about it because I stumbled upon a 93 caravan this afternoon and might be able to get the whole interior for free(radio included). Thanks for all the info and help.

[kermit]

Did you try posting on here for one in the wtb section, or looking thru the for sale ads...they turn up now and then. There are so many of these cars I find it hard to believe that you can't get your hands on a 10 to 20 year old radio.

[kermit]

Hmmmm... Yeah, you're right. There are hardly any of these thing left, and they are so expensive, lol.

Radios:NOS and Reman 1997-2004 $20.00

[EvilcowRoland]

^ 5 of the 6 of those are the newer style with the round faceplate. But those are pretty common too now. I found a CD/Cassette combo with the round face at a thrift store of all places. Paid $30 for it with the factory 6x9 speakers. No idea what I'm going to do with it. I guess hang on to it in case I ever get a newer car. It played great in my Daytona, just doesn't mount the same.

I actually have 2 of the older style CD players with the face plate/button problem. And I have one that works prefectly (so 3 total). The other 2 seem to play fine but the buttons don't always work and the faceplate won't light up properly. The 2 broken ones are different from my working one though. I recall reading that there were 2 different makes of CD player for Chrysler from that time period. One is made by Mitsubishi. Don't remember the other one. But the Cassette players were mostly low-end units made by Alpine. Don't know who makes the new ones though.

[EvilcowRoland]

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Originally Posted by ke6960 my dads 02 ram if you are listening to a burnt cd and try to change the song to any number over 4 or 5 it takes forever to start and sometimes dosnt unless you eject the cd and play a lower number (however if you listen to the cd all the way through it has no problems) they had the same radio (as far as you could tell from the front)

It actually takes more power for the laser to read a CD-R. The factory units are typically low power and have a hard time with them (not just Chrysler). There is a way to go in and up the power on the laser, but it's easy to burn it out too if you adjust it too high. Your best bet is to just get an aftermarket radio meant for playing CD-R's or use an FM transmitter and an external CD player (did this in my work truck for a long time).

[Oklahoma Wolf]

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Originally Posted by EvilcowRoland I found a CD/Cassette combo with the round face at a thrift store of all places. Paid $30 for it with the factory 6x9 speakers. No idea what I'm going to do with it. I guess hang on to it in case I ever get a newer car. It played great in my Daytona, just doesn't mount the same.

RDS model? Those ones are Alpine built

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I recall reading that there were 2 different makes of CD player for Chrysler from that time period. One is made by Mitsubishi. Don't remember the other one. But the Cassette players were mostly low-end units made by Alpine. Don't know who makes the new ones though.

Not quite. Alpine never made the tape decks as far as I've been able to tell. From what I've been able to find out, the supplier codes are:

7902 - Chrysler Huntsville (Infinity I, some of the quartz lock decks, some Infinity III)
28046 - Mitsubishi (some old Quartz Lock, Ultimate Infinity, Infinity II, slave CD, most Infinity III's, combo decks)
26777 - Alpine (Infinity IV, navigation decks, some recent RDS enabled combo decks)

There are others, but I haven't pinpointed them to a specific company. Chrysler also had dealings with Clarion and Audiovox. There is still some hearsay pointing to 7902 being Clarion, but I tend to doubt it as I've seen other Chrysler electronics modules with that code on them. Most Chrysler car audio decks are Mitsubishi. The Ultimate Infinity I mentioned is the third picture in my other post and is probably the rarest of them all. Took me 3 years of ebay watching to find that one. They only came in 1987 New Yorkers in the silver.

My collection thus far (minus the decks in use and my parts CD/cassette deck):



Edit - now that I think about it, I have them grouped by OEM in that pic. Mitsubishi, the one Alpine CD deck, and the two Chrysler Huntsville.

[newmember]

Well Kermit I appreciate all your help in locating radios and such. Though I rather see if I could have fixed my own radio, because aside from my tape not staying in, that is the only problem.

[EvilcowRoland]

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Originally Posted by Oklahoma Wolf RDS model? Those ones are Alpine built

No idea what RDS means, but the combo deck sounds fantastic. Honestly, the sound was better than the Infinity CD player I was running. But I have an aftermarket CD player in there now with MP3 playback etc.

I had been told that the Infinity 2 cassette decks were sourced from Alpine. But I never double checked that. Anyways, I have one like the third in your last pic (the curved buttons with the slider 5-band EQ). That came in my Daytona Shelby and has the plug on the back for the slave CD player. It works fine, I just wanted a CD player and didn't have the plug in.

You can tell which CD player is which because one has a door covering the opening and the other has a felt liner. As to which is which I have no idea. I'd have to look it up.

[Oklahoma Wolf]

RDS is Radio Data System - if equipped the deck would have a dot matrix display on it to show you information transmitted by compatible stations. There would also be a big RDS logo on the cassette door. Kind of a neat toy when you have stations nearby that support it (I don't).

The Infinity II (my first two decks on the left of the pic) is definitely Mitsubishi - all 3 of mine have Mitsubishi written all over the insides and label, as well as their supplier code. The one in the pic that's the third one in came from a '99 LHS taxi - it's a changer control deck that wasn't released until '95 or so. I posted a closeup earlier in the thread. Very good sounding deck - I wish mine worked 100%. It did at first, but now the fader won't work and you can't set the time. Never did figure out what was wrong with it - neither Chrysler nor their authorized service centers will let me have the schematics.

Next item I plan to add to the collection is the Infinity III - never had one of them yet. Came close on the last yard run though. They look a lot like my CD changer deck, except they can't control a changer (slave CD only) and have two rocker switches instead of one on the right side of the display.

My Infinity IV CD player in that pic is an Alpine for sure - their name's all over the guts. The CD has been tweaked to read CDR's - that took a sizeable bump in laser power to do. Unfortunately, mine has power supply issues and has been put on the shelf because I can't get the schematics to fix it. That deck is the reason I went aftermarket too - I got sick of fixing Chrysler CD players only to have them act up again right away.