No sound!
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2008 C63 AMG, 2007 B170
No sound!
Hi all,
Sad to have this as my first post but what the heck.
Recently, the OEM Bose speakers in the wife's SLK200 just stopped working. She was commuting to work one day listening to the radio and the sound just suddenly cut out. The headunit looks fine, it's not dead or anything like that, and CDs will play on it, it's just that there's no sound. We took it to the dealer for servicing one day and asked them to look at it, and they couldn't find anything wrong with it and recommended getting a replacement at US$1500!!
Now with that kind of money we could get a completely new soundsystem, but my wife wants to keep the original headunit. Anybody experience anything similar? Thanks all and appreciate any thoughts.
Sad to have this as my first post but what the heck.
Recently, the OEM Bose speakers in the wife's SLK200 just stopped working. She was commuting to work one day listening to the radio and the sound just suddenly cut out. The headunit looks fine, it's not dead or anything like that, and CDs will play on it, it's just that there's no sound. We took it to the dealer for servicing one day and asked them to look at it, and they couldn't find anything wrong with it and recommended getting a replacement at US$1500!!
Now with that kind of money we could get a completely new soundsystem, but my wife wants to keep the original headunit. Anybody experience anything similar? Thanks all and appreciate any thoughts.
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Hi all,
Sad to have this as my first post but what the heck.
Recently, the OEM Bose speakers in the wife's SLK200 just stopped working. She was commuting to work one day listening to the radio and the sound just suddenly cut out. The headunit looks fine, it's not dead or anything like that, and CDs will play on it, it's just that there's no sound. We took it to the dealer for servicing one day and asked them to look at it, and they couldn't find anything wrong with it and recommended getting a replacement at US$1500!!
Now with that kind of money we could get a completely new soundsystem, but my wife wants to keep the original headunit. Anybody experience anything similar? Thanks all and appreciate any thoughts.
Sad to have this as my first post but what the heck.
Recently, the OEM Bose speakers in the wife's SLK200 just stopped working. She was commuting to work one day listening to the radio and the sound just suddenly cut out. The headunit looks fine, it's not dead or anything like that, and CDs will play on it, it's just that there's no sound. We took it to the dealer for servicing one day and asked them to look at it, and they couldn't find anything wrong with it and recommended getting a replacement at US$1500!!
Now with that kind of money we could get a completely new soundsystem, but my wife wants to keep the original headunit. Anybody experience anything similar? Thanks all and appreciate any thoughts.
without a better diagnosis all we can really do is guess at this point which is not going to help you get you car fixed.
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2008 C63 AMG, 2007 B170
My thoughts exactly, but I wasn't around when the wife sent and collected the car. All they told her was that she had to get a replacement HU and that they couldn't trace the problem.
Thanks for the advice, I have to admit I don't know much about Benz's, and didn't even know it had optic cables! Does this mean a run-of-the-mill garage won't be able to diagnose the problem?
Thanks for the advice, I have to admit I don't know much about Benz's, and didn't even know it had optic cables! Does this mean a run-of-the-mill garage won't be able to diagnose the problem?
Last edited by Gurlfren; May 31, 2007 at 07:23 AM.
