Blau Toronto LED problem ?

[Brett Dikeman]

At 8:16 AM -0600 5/20/02, Barry McInnes wrote:
>Hi,
>Just wondering if this is a common problem. I put the Totonto
>in an 89 299TQ in 1999. Worked and looked great until the LED
>display started to not display properly. It would miss lines
>on the display then work OK, then miss different lines.
>Is there a cheap fix anyone has worked out
>instead of replacing the LED display
>which looks like $120 part ?
>I have taken it out and the connectors and parts look OK
>on the front section....

I bought a Blaupunkt Tokyo unit 7-8 months ago...Several electrolytic
capacitors inside have let go, and to top it all off, the mechanism
just went south, kept eating my CDs.  Crutchfield had heavily
discounted it, and now I know why.  Part of me wants to sue the pants
off them, because it's obvious they knew they were selling defective
goods.

Crutchfield basically told me to go take a long walk off a short pier
because the unit was 7-8 months old, that I'd have to get it repaired
via Blaupunkt.

Thankfully under warrantee, but it'll cost $$ to ship out for repair,
and the repair place has said that turnaround time is 2-3 weeks.  And
who knows if it'll break again in a few months?

I never particularly liked the unit anyway...the front end sticks out
-really- far from the dash(every other player on the market is flush,
pretty much.)

Still, it was better than most of the racer-boy-crap out there.  I
don't want flashing lights, I don't want meaningless zoomy
bar-graphs, I don't want a bright silver paintjob.

   Black plastic.  Red backlighting.  Simple, ergonomic button layout.
Good CD s/n ratio and a nice FM tuner.

That's it, that's all I want...

Brett
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