On my way back from Brooklands last Saturday, I slipped the home-made CD of the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest into my 131's Kenwood CD player and after a couple of songs I was just getting into the spirit of it and singing along
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when the CD player stopped and threw out the CD
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And that was the end of the CD player
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it refused to play any CD after that
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So last night I decided to change the Radio CD unit in the 131 as the Kenwood unit never sounded too good and the buttons and writing were so small I couldn't read them without reading glasses on and I can't see to drive while wearing reading glasses! (all you young people out there reading this and thinking "what's he on about?" just wait and you will find out in a few years time!).
I have a few spare units most of which are radio cassette units but who listens to cassettes these days! So I decided to fit the Blaupunkt Alicante unit that I had lying around. It looks a bit too "modern" in the 131 and the blue and red lighting are definately not as nice as the plain green lighting I had with the Kenwood. But it works and quite well too (although I haven't tried playing the Eurovision Song Contest CD yet
![Grin](http://131mirafiori.com/smf/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
) plus it has the added bonus of RDS, PTY etc that come with modern units. It doesn't sound as well as I remember it when it was fitted to my daughter's Peugeot 106 and in fact the sound is on par with the Kenwood unit so I suspect the speakers are not that great. I have a few spare speaker sets lying around so might be changing those tonight. But at least I now have a working CD player and therefore my choice of sounds for the 3ma...
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