i had a cassette adapter in my 96 disco and after about 6 months it started flipping sides constantly and would not play so i bought a new one and after about 3 months this one would only play out of one side. both were under 15 dollars and werent a big brand name such as sony or panasonic, they were scoshe and phillips. i tried these in a 96 ford contour and they both worked fine. do you think the problem is in my cars deck or the units themselves?

 

Could be either.
Run a cleaning cassette through your trucks cassette player.
If it is really dirty and it thinks it is at the end of the "tape" it will try and flip sides.

 

I tried using the cassette adapter and it would not work no matter how i tried with my tape deck. I ended up using a FM transmitter that plugs into the cigarette lighter and tuning the FM radio to catch the signal.

 

I tried a phillips wet cassette cleaner with no luck. Has anyone had thos problem but then bought a new
Adapter and had it work? If so what brand

 

Well I tried another cassette adapter and no luck so I'm just goona get a new headunit. If I were to buy one off of crutchfield
Would they give me everything needed to install it without losing my amp and subs? Also how hard is this to wire? I've
Installed headunits in a dodge, chevy and toyota with no problems but I'm positive this will be more difficult

 

From what i've read (researched replacing my stock HU), you will lose the factory amps and you should also wire the speakers directly; meaning not use the factory speaker connections/wires because of the factory amp issues. Check out Dweb or LRRForms, there have been lots of discussions on this topic. Good luck and keep us posted on what you end up doing.

 

well the headunit im buying comes with a amp integration harness as well so im hoping that i will not lose my rear subs, i replaced the stock 6.5's with some realy good 6.5's that run off the factory amp still

 

With that integration harness it should just "bolt" right up.

 

awesome, i will order it all up and tell you how it goes after install, thanks guys, just one more question, what thebest way to remove the factory radio? can i just use a coat hanger?

 

yeah you can use a coat hanger or a ford radio tool for removal......couple of nails will work too