Anyone recommend a local place for getting an OEM Ford stereo repaired?
Before you suggest, “just get an aftermarket unit”, realize this is in my Expedition and it controls the built in 6 disk changer as well supporting the rear seat controls. I’d rather just get this fixed than lose the existing functionality. Plus it’s a double DIN and many of the aftermarket double DIN units are either real expensive because they have a ton of features I don’t want or look like crap.
It seems like it would be a simple repair. What’s happening is when you turn the volume up it works just fine, but when you turn it down the volume fluctuates between going down and going up. If you spin it enough eventually it does go down but watching the digital bar graph that represents the volume for every 2 clicks it goes down it goes 1.5 back up. I know it’s the knob because it turns down perfectly using the rear seat controls.
the one in my xterra does the same thing. Mine works better if you go slow. I don’t want an aftermarket double din because they don’t have removable face-plates either.
2000 Expedition. I’ll remove it tonight so I can get a look at what kind of connections it has on the back to start comparing it to the eBay ones. I wouldn’t really care if I lost the rear seat controls but my life really likes the CD changer.
May end up with a 6 disk console mount changer FS soon.
