Mark Hubley

About two years ago I installed a Blaupunkt Honolulu in my 944. I have been very happy with it, but recently I have had problems with the rotary volume control. Turning the thing clockwise is supposed to increase the volume. However, turning the thing clockwise will now randomly either decrease or increase the volume. Fortunately, the probability of increasing volume is greater than the probability of decreasing volume, so enough turns will eventually get the volume increased to where I want it; but it is annoying!

Blaupunkt wants $90 for a new faceplate. I'm concerned about spending that much $$$ for a new faceplate when I paid only $160 for the entire unit. For another $160 I could get a new and better CD/receiver. I am also concerned that my problem may result from a design flaw with the rotary control.

Does anybody out there have a Blaupunkt with a rotary control. Had any problems?

Mark

user 8430

I have the exact unit with the EXACT same problem, and mine is only a couple months old. I am happy with the styling and functions of this unit, but not happy with many small problems, like the volume control, also many times the display screws up, and the display blanks out and pressing any buttns don't work until you restart it with the ignition.

iloveporsches

I used to have an Aiwa bookshelf system in my room, and it had the same problems. Turning the dial up would increase and decrease it, so you just had to turn it about 5 times the normal amount to get it up. Trying to turn it down, though, was major pain. Someone would be calling my name, so I'd spin the dial to turn it down, and it'd crank it up to almost full volume! I just had to make sure I had my remote near by...

Mark Hubley

Hmmmmm, interesting.

I wonder if there is anything we can do to persuade Blaupunkt that this is a problem with their design/manufacturing, and they should give us a break on replacing the bad parts?