Headunit wont eject.

Retro coolness.

Forget how to repair the headunit.

How the hell do i get it out now.

For some reason i treat this car with kid gloves.

Sorted it.

Managed to get it out, after taking everything i could off the left side of the dash.

Took the headunit appart and couldn't see any issues, so i've lubricated the eject mechanism and all seems to be O.K.

OEM tape HU's. OK for the look - but that's where it ends IMO.

Yep, and that's why i want it to work.

Keep the car as original as possible. Not worried about sound quality, i have my system in my daily driver for that.

Also, i have a large selection of 80's/90's tapes and have no tape player at home.

So driving the Nova (and Lotus Carlton) gives me chance to listen to them. :thumb:

Picked a spare Philips SC804 up today at the VBOA spares day just in case....:p

i had this prob on an old sony unit of mine last week, had to take it apart to get the cassette out.

it still works but the automatic mechanism's far from smooth now, and you have to help the tape in and out.

i dont know how many times it'll be able to cycle in and out before it kills itself, so im leaving tapes in there a week at a time to try get the most out of it lol

doesn't the lotus carlton have a cd player ????? lol

proper retro tape player,i couldn't have one in my sr it would do my nut inlol

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Originally Posted by Joe Richardson

doesn't the lotus carlton have a cd player ?????

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Yes, it does. It's a single CD unit under the standard tape Headunit.