radio not working

[FaultCode]

Hello I'm new here and thought this looks like a good place to ask a question that I have been asking a lot but have had no answers, so here it is.

I bought a second hand (because this unit is no longer available in the shops) Sony MDX-C800REC, because I wanted to record onto minidisc in the car from the radio.

The trouble is the MW and LW frequences work fine but FM - the one I listen to most does not. The symptoms are: I set the unit to search automaticaly or manualy for stations and it beeps as if to confirm that it has found and stored some. I press a preset number to listen to what has been stored only to find nothing there but a VERY faint noise of voices or music or whatever should be loud and clear. If I pull out the antena lead from the back of the unit it disapears as you might expect, but if I only half insert it I get a better but still bareley audiable sound of that station, if I push the plug fully home the sound gets worse and loses bass. I know the problem is not the antena as I have tried an aiwa unit on it and it works fine. I have also tried the Sony on a 'known to be good' antena in another car.

Does anyone have any ideas about what this could be, can it be fixed or had this problem themselves?

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[Montypup 10+ year member]

sounds like you need to get it warrantied, see if you can get the original sales reciept from the first owner

 

[FaultCode]

sounds like you need to get it warrantied, see if you can get the original sales reciept from the first owner

Thanks for the reply but that unfortunately is not possible.

Looks like if I want to continue using it (for the recording facility) I am going to have to use another head unit for the FM and feed it into the 800REC via something like a Sony XA300. Then of course if I use a tape deck I could transfer my old tapes to MD whilst in the car.

I am assuming that if I want to use the 800REC as a recorder that it will have to be the last head unit in line before the speakers.