1999 Ford Taurus SE Cassette Deck?

Question

I recently got a car cassette adapter for my MP3 player and technically everything would have been good but the cassette player won't play correctly. It will begin to play but then it ejects the cassette. I tried using another adapter and it does the same thing. I was told removing the gears and access junk in it might help, but now it just spins without stopping. I pulled the panel off in attempt to clean the cassette deck, but even after removing all the screws I can seperate the frames. It appears to be held together by something inside. As a last resort I figured I could just buy a replacement one on ebay. I saw a cheap replacement panel with the cassette deck for a cheap price, but it's rotary knobs not digital push buttons. I was wondering if anyone knew if the rotary knobs would work inexchange for the digit buttons? The panel is for the same 1999 Ford Taurus so I figured it would be okay but read otherwise. Can anyone offer any advise otherwise for me to do to repair or replace

I wanted to add that when it reads the cassette, the display of what the cassette playing is reading switches from side 1 to side 2 over and over again, almost as if it can't find anything. Also it will play it from time to time but every 5-10 seconds it will make that noise after if it is ejecting then inserting the cassette, at which it starts to play again.

I read somewhere that 1999 Ford Taurus have a void on cassettes that exceed 80 minutes, and it won't play them correctly. Maybe I misunderstood though.

I have no interest of spending 100-200 on a new face plate that has a mp3 AUX. I don't mind the sound quality of a cassette whatsoever.

I have yet to try a regular cassette in my player, but I will do that and try a sony one as well.

Also I have both the cassette and the cd changed, but I did not want to buy an extra 60+ dollar hookup, because I don't know how much longer I will have this car.

Answer 1

The rotary-knob style radio/climate control panel has separate climate control switch modules mounted to the back of the plate, while the digital panel has the switches built into the panel. If you bought a replacement with rotary knobs, you'd have to go to a dealer and purchase the switch modules separately; they won't be included with the panel. This assumes that both use the same type of plugs and harnesses behind the climate controls; I don't know if they do.

You don't say if your cassette player will play a standard cassette without any problems. There's a good chance that the problem is the adapter; some factory radios just don't work well with them. You can try purchasing a cassette adapter made by Sony. I've seen them work in cases where nothing else will, but make sure you buy it somewhere that you can return it if it doesn't work.

Answer 2

The best bet would find an aftermarket CD player with the MP3 hookup. It would be alot cheaper and easier too. With the adapters you music is going to sound muffled and distorted. You can get a very good CD player with the hookup you need for under $200. This will save you a ton of headaches and problems later on.

Answer 3

wow this is the same problem I am having I have even tried getting an adapter that suppose to find a radio station you can connect to and that didn't work I listen to a lot of music but my tape deck keeps reading TDY what does this mean and is there any way around this it does this regular tapes as well as the tape adapter.

Answer 4

what you are doing is wasting a lot of time ,there is nothitng you can do to stop the tape there are sensors inside that stop if the tape is damage or if is been over 90 minutes the radio with the other controls that you saw will work in your vehicle but why will you lose your nice ac controls to go to the old version makes no sense people are getting the ac controls that you have now
anyways the best way to input audio in to your radio is this way

http://www.oemautosound.com/pc-301-86-pie-frdr-aux-ford-auxiliary-taurus-sable-lincoln.aspx

if you have a cd changer go with this

http://www.oemautosound.com/pc-392-86-pie-x3-frdw-triple-input-auxiliary-interface-ford-1995-2005.aspx

Answer 5

my cassette player say there is no tape when it clearly has one in there. Can anyone tell me how to fix my player so that it will work again?