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Default Weird problem with car radio in VW Golf

I hope this is the correct forum to post this. If not, please don't
shoot!
Here goes. I recently got me a VW Golf (2001). The previous owner took
out the radio so I bought a new one: A lenco CS-174. It's a very cheap
radio so my expectations about quality are quite low.

Anyway, what I am experiencing is very weird to me. I must be doing
something very wrong. The manual gives no clues whatsoever:
http://www.lenco-audiovideo.com/manu...CS-174_ENG.pdf

I have a problem with the radio and another one with the CD/MP3 player.

Radio:
I could not immediately hook up my radio. I needed a DIN to ISO cable.
I got one that can amplify and the dealer told me to shove the contact
into the blue/white wire in the connector (Connector A wire 5). There
was already the wire from the Golf in that socket. When I additionally
put the amplifier wire in I noticed the reception got much better.
After 1 day I could not receive anything anymore. Even if I
detach/reattach the car radio I can receive nothing.

CD/MP3 music:
After I hook up the radio the sound starts out fine. After a day or 2
the sound level starts to drop and more and more noise gets introduced.
In the end I can hardly make out the music from the noise and the sound
level is very low even if I put the volume to MAX.

I'm confident I hooked up the radio correctly. What could I have done
wrong? The connectors from my golf only fit in one place. Strange
enough there is no ground wire coming out of my golf. Could it be the
radio slowly gets charged or something and that detaching the radio
leaks the charge? Actually, I'm not sure if my radio is the problem.
Maybe the car causes the trouble. Unfortunately I have only 1 car and 1
radio, so I cannot rule out any possibility.

Is there an electical engineer or kick-arse hobbyist out there that
knows what I could do? Many thanks for any comment.

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on-bekend wrote:
I got one that can amplify and the dealer told me to shove the contact
into the blue/white wire in the connector (Connector A wire 5). There
was already the wire from the Golf in that socket. When I additionally
put the amplifier wire in I noticed the reception got much better.
After 1 day I could not receive anything anymore. Even if I
detach/reattach the car radio I can receive nothing.


A harness adapter that can "amplifiy"? That doesn't seem right... Also,
that sounds like you might have blown something b/c you did something
that was not listed in the manual to do. Just my 2 cents.


And it seems like there's been a lot of VW Golf question lately doesn't it?
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on-bekend schreef:

I hope this is the correct forum to post this. If not, please don't
shoot!
Here goes. I recently got me a VW Golf (2001). The previous owner took
out the radio so I bought a new one: A lenco CS-174. It's a very cheap
radio so my expectations about quality are quite low.

Anyway, what I am experiencing is very weird to me. I must be doing
something very wrong. The manual gives no clues whatsoever:
http://www.lenco-audiovideo.com/manu...CS-174_ENG.pdf

I have a problem with the radio and another one with the CD/MP3 player.

Radio:
I could not immediately hook up my radio. I needed a DIN to ISO cable.
I got one that can amplify and the dealer told me to shove the contact
into the blue/white wire in the connector (Connector A wire 5). There
was already the wire from the Golf in that socket. When I additionally
put the amplifier wire in I noticed the reception got much better.
After 1 day I could not receive anything anymore. Even if I
detach/reattach the car radio I can receive nothing.

CD/MP3 music:
After I hook up the radio the sound starts out fine. After a day or 2
the sound level starts to drop and more and more noise gets introduced.
In the end I can hardly make out the music from the noise and the sound
level is very low even if I put the volume to MAX.

I'm confident I hooked up the radio correctly. What could I have done
wrong? The connectors from my golf only fit in one place. Strange
enough there is no ground wire coming out of my golf. Could it be the
radio slowly gets charged or something and that detaching the radio
leaks the charge? Actually, I'm not sure if my radio is the problem.
Maybe the car causes the trouble. Unfortunately I have only 1 car and 1
radio, so I cannot rule out any possibility.

Is there an electical engineer or kick-arse hobbyist out there that
knows what I could do? Many thanks for any comment.


I have a LENCO CS-176, same as CS-174 but then it came with USB-stick.
I have more or less the same weird symptome. Sound from USB-stick or
MP3 cd is okay. But the radio is not working properly anymore. After a
day or 5 it started to behave weird. Now (a few days later) I can not
tune to a single radio station anymore. When I turn the volume to 45
(max) I do hear some noise, but it much. First resetting made some
difference, later I pushed all buttons for a longer period and that
sometimes did the trick. But since I have read the manual nothing seems
to work anymore. I understand AF/PTY/REG and so on, but I guess it's
broken. By the way what does EON do ?(it's not mentioned in the
manual)...

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