Some scrote just nicked my car radio - a several-years-old Aggros £25
special-offer job. Wish them luck getting anything for it but at least
they didn't smash a window to get in: I found the car unlocked and the
battery flat. Puzzled how they got in. I don't know if the motor (Daewoo
Tacuma) would unlock if it sensed the battery getting low? I didn't seem
to have left the lights on or anything. Though it had been standing
unused for probably a couple or more weeks, so maybe it's losing
capacity. And maybe opportunistic scrote just found it unlocked and
helped themself.

Incidentally while prodding around to find why there was no power I
noticed hanging down beneath the dash, over the footwell, an unplugged
sort of code plug - plastic cap with 2 contacts inside with a resistor
soldered between them. Wonder what that does?

Anyway it's a new radio I'm after, but there don't seem to be any £25
ones anywhere I've looked - seem to start at £50. Any clues? Just want FM
radio, SD and/or USB play (preferably both) and a line-in would be nice.
Sort of thing one sees at independents occasionally (I'm in Reading).

--
John Stumbles

I used to think the brain was the most interesting part of the body
- until I realised what was telling me that

John Stumbles wrote:
Some scrote just nicked my car radio - a several-years-old Aggros £25
special-offer job. Wish them luck getting anything for it but at least
they didn't smash a window to get in: I found the car unlocked and the
battery flat. Puzzled how they got in. I don't know if the motor
(Daewoo Tacuma) would unlock if it sensed the battery getting low? I
didn't seem to have left the lights on or anything. Though it had
been standing unused for probably a couple or more weeks, so maybe
it's losing capacity. And maybe opportunistic scrote just found it
unlocked and helped themself.

Incidentally while prodding around to find why there was no power I
noticed hanging down beneath the dash, over the footwell, an unplugged
sort of code plug - plastic cap with 2 contacts inside with a resistor
soldered between them. Wonder what that does?

Anyway it's a new radio I'm after, but there don't seem to be any £25
ones anywhere I've looked - seem to start at £50. Any clues? Just
want FM radio, SD and/or USB play (preferably both) and a line-in
would be nice. Sort of thing one sees at independents occasionally
(I'm in Reading).

http://www.weareelectricals.com/prod...d-SD-slot.html

27GBP or 33 with VAT

http://www.weareelectricals.com/prod...d-SD-slot.html

26 GBP, 32 inc VAT

On Jun 24, 5:20*pm, John Stumbles wrote:
Some scrote just nicked my car radio - a several-years-old Aggros £25
special-offer job. Wish them luck getting anything for it but at least
they didn't smash a window to get in: I found the car unlocked and the
battery flat. Puzzled how they got in. I don't know if the motor (Daewoo
Tacuma) would unlock if it sensed the battery getting low? I didn't seem
to have left the lights on or anything. Though it had been standing
unused for probably a couple or more weeks, so maybe it's losing
capacity. And maybe opportunistic scrote just found it unlocked and
helped themself.

Incidentally while prodding around to find why there was no power I
noticed hanging down beneath the dash, over the footwell, an unplugged
sort of code plug - plastic cap with 2 contacts inside with a resistor
soldered between them. Wonder what that does?

Anyway it's a new radio I'm after, but there don't seem to be any £25
ones anywhere I've looked - seem to start at £50. Any clues? Just want FM
radio, SD and/or USB play (preferably both) and a line-in would be nice.
Sort of thing one sees at independents occasionally (I'm in Reading).

--
John Stumbles

I used to think the brain was the most interesting part of the body
* * * * * * * * * * * * - until I realised what was telling me that

Cheapest I can find quickly is 50 odd quid on Amazon, dunno if it's
any good or not:-

http://tinyurl.com/6l8vgd2

I bought a JVC one from Amazon a couple of years back for 50 notes but
that doesn't seem to be available any more.

In message , SteveH
writes
John Stumbles wrote:

Anyway it's a new radio I'm after, but there don't seem to be any £25
ones anywhere I've looked - seem to start at £50. Any clues? Just want FM
radio, SD and/or USB play (preferably both) and a line-in would be nice.
Sort of thing one sees at independents occasionally (I'm in Reading).

eBay.

I have one of these in my MX5:

http://search.ebay.co.uk/390325544665

Not cutting edge, but it works well enough - even streams music over
bluetooth from my iPhone and people have reported that the hands free is
OK even with the roof down at 50mph.

My last 2 came from the remainder area at Aldi. Put the first in the
pre-Defender 110 and after a few years it worked fine but got
Alzheimers, so had to be programmed every trip. Might have been the car
electrics anyway.
When we changed to the Disco, we treated it to the next remaindered. It
remembers which is good because I can't remember what the buttons do.
I think the first was 19.99, the second 29.99 or maybe less. Definitely
not more. Has sockets for cards etc.

They now seem to have less overstocking of these sort of things, but I
seem to remember seeing one a few weeks ago.
--
Bill

In article ,
John Stumbles wrote:
Anyway it's a new radio I'm after, but there don't seem to be any £25
ones anywhere I've looked - seem to start at £50. Any clues? Just want
FM radio, SD and/or USB play (preferably both) and a line-in would be
nice. Sort of thing one sees at independents occasionally (I'm in
Reading).

The Lidl/Aldi ones that come up every so often are pretty good - but
about 40 quid.

Or Ebay for a secondhand unit?

--
*Modulation in all things *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 25/06/2011 10:06, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In ,
John wrote:
Anyway it's a new radio I'm after, but there don't seem to be any £25
ones anywhere I've looked - seem to start at £50. Any clues? Just want
FM radio, SD and/or USB play (preferably both) and a line-in would be
nice. Sort of thing one sees at independents occasionally (I'm in
Reading).
The Lidl/Aldi ones that come up every so often are pretty good - but
about 40 quid.

Or Ebay for a secondhand unit?

Bought one from Aldi yesterday, £50, CD/mp3/usb/sd/bluetooth/aux input &
remote, stuck it in my motorhome yesterday, sounds good.

--
Corporal Jones
"Don't panic don't panic"
Life will go on albeit somewhat reduced

Corporal Jones wrote:

Bought one from Aldi yesterday, £50, CD/mp3/usb/sd/bluetooth/aux input &
remote, stuck it in my motorhome yesterday, sounds good.

I bought a similar spec Tokai LAR-209 for my caravan. It seemed
basically OK, but as I tried its various functions, problems
began to appear.

I contacted Pixmania, from whom I bought it, for clarification,
but they don't seem to be able to help. I enquired:

"Using one of my 8 GB USB sticks, only a small portion of the
tracks are recognised and played, despite all non-MP3 files,
including hidden ones, having been deleted. Some of the same
files on a 2GB SD card play without problems. Why is this?

A 32 GB USB stick is not recognised, "Error 15" is displayed.
What problem does this indicate?

Are SDHC cards (greater than 2GB) compatible with this unit?"

The manual states, rather unhelpfully "The MP3 formats acceptable
are limited." What does this mean in practice? Limited by what?
How does anybody discover which formats are acceptable?"

They initially just asked me to send it back, so I said

"You are now asking me to return the unit to you for your
examination. I do not understand how, if you are unable to answer
my queries, you are in any position to compare my radio's
performance with the manufacturer's specification, since you show
no evidence of having that specification."

After several further exchanges I said:

"To clarify yet again, it has never been my request to return the
radio, I simply need my questions answered. Surely it is cheaper
and quicker for all concerned to move information rather than
hardware?"

They said:
"Thank you for your e-mail and I would like to inform you that
only the manufacturer Tokai will be able to answer your
questions.
Please contact the manufacturer Tokai."

Which is pretty much full circle, as I have asked for Tokai
contact details several times. Previously they said

"I invite you to return your unit for repair as
you cannot get in touch with Tokai in the UK."

They have now gone silent.

The name is so common that I haven't had any luck Googling for
the manufacturer.

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

On 26/06/2011 08:32, Chris J Dixon wrote:

"I invite you to return your unit for repair as
you cannot get in touch with Tokai in the UK."

They have now gone silent.

The name is so common that I haven't had any luck Googling for
the manufacturer.

Pixmania have a huge european B2B operation supplying wholesalers and
other companies with that kind of product, which they have sourced in
the far east and branded themselves. They probably want to keep the name
of the OEM manufacturer quiet for business reasons, and you get drowned
out searching for "Tokai" in Google. Same as the old days of DSGi
(Pixmainia's owners) and the names Saisho, Matsui and Logik.

http://www.pixmania-pro.co.uk/gb/uk/homepage.html

--
Adrian C