FM band repair

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There is so much knowledge and experience here but why hasn't someone done a write up on how to fix the FM band problem in the stock radio? I have a Marauder head unit in my CV sport and I want to keep it in there, unfortunately last night I lost FM, CD still worked. I understand its a solder problem. If someone can point in the right direction I'd be glad to fix it myself.
 
No one has done it because you can't get to the area affected. I'd just get the Escape unit. It's much better than the original.
 
Thats a same, everything is repairable! I thought about the escape radio but the Marauder radio looks like the original that came out of my sport. On a side note FM started working again for me so I guess I have a little longer with it.
 
Pull it out and send it to United Radio. They can fix it. Google them, they have two locations, one north, one south. Mine did the same thing, but I prefer Sirius so I am just using that through the tape player. Have been for a few years now.
 
Ford Audiophile unit to replace stock MM.
P/N: 6L8T-18C815-FD
Runs the factory sub and there is no need for the stock changer as the audiophile system has an integrated 6-disc unit. Everything is right at your fingertips including steering wheel control function.
 
fastblackmerc said:
Ford Audiophile unit to replace stock MM.

P/N: 6L8T-18C815-FD

Runs the factory sub and there is no need for the stock changer as the audiophile system has an integrated 6-disc unit. Everything is right at your fingertips including steering wheel control function.
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I think thats the one I have in the car now, but the CD player stopped working in it.
 
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If its this one, thats what I have in the car now.
 
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After getting home and looking, I have the one y'all are talking about. The cd player quit working is there a reset process I can do or do I need to just get a new one?
 
I thought I saw somewhere the CD player guts are the same as factory radio and may be able to be swapped into the Escape unit.....You'll have to verify, don't have time to search at moment.
 
Crashed Audiophile CD player

It is possible to crash the firmware in this CD player, requiring a full power cycle (battery disconnect) to reset it. I've done this, and repeated this, by burning CD's with MP3s on it with a file format that the player doesn't understand. In fact, the problem caused me to go buy another one, then I crashed that one too...and realized what was going on, so I wrote an instructable on how to properly burn MP3 data CDs for this player that won't crash the firmware.

Specifically, inserting a disk burned in UDF format will crash it. It will do nothing useful with CDs after that unless you completely cold boot the unit by removing all power.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Ford-Audiophile-Stereo-Radio-Play-Mp/

To reset the situation, either pull it out of the dash and unplug it for a minute or two, or disconnect the battery and turn on your headlights for a minute or two or pull the radio fuse and let it sit for 10 minutes. When you reconnect power, make sure the first thing you do is eject the CD. Don't hit play, or you'll crash it again.

Of course, it's entirely possible that this isn't what caused yours to crash. I hope it is. It's easily fixed.
 
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