Tape Player Clicking! Options

[aspen]

I've got the 8 speaker sound system in my Celica, with the premium headunit.

The tape player will occasionally click when I'm listening to my iPhone, which is really annoying.(It's very loud.)


Is there a fix? Something I can do?

I refuse to buy another headunit(unless it's another OEM one identical to what I have(and if you want to sell yours, PM me, I want a spare)) because I don't want a disco ball in my cockpit.


Thanks!

[aspen]

2Hz loud mechanical clicking coming from the deck. I use a 1/8 to Tape adapter.

It only clicks sometimes.


Unfortunately, everything's integrated, so I guess I could go sniffing traces on the radio...

[solidxsnake]

2Hz loud mechanical clicking coming from the deck. I use a 1/8 to Tape adapter.

It only clicks sometimes.


Unfortunately, everything's integrated, so I guess I could go sniffing traces on the radio...

As long as that tape is in the deck, it will click. I've never seen a tape-deck that doesn't make that sound.

What do you mean "everything's integrated?" There's no built-in AUX-In in the stock head-unit, you'll need to tap into the amplifier's line-in by sniffing traces. However, you'd have to use the radio's input, not the tape-deck's. If you tap into the tape-deck's output to the amp, then you'll still get clicking, just no tape-hiss. Either way, you'll render whatever you tap into useless unless you build yourself a switching circuit.