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New CD/MP3 player in the Mazda

darrenlambert — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:15:02 +0000

My new Mazda 323f has an old Clarion cassette player, which although sounds quite good, was not up to the job of playing CDs. After a bit of internet research I decided to buy a new CD player with an MP3 AUX connection on the front. I went for a Sony, that costs just £50.

Today I went to fit the unit. First thing was to remove the Clarion. I had an old tool which seemed to fit the holes, but it wouldn’t budge. I tried all sorts of things but struggled to get it out. Eventually I used a dinner knife to fold back the tabs that hold the entire assembly in the space. Not the most elegant technique, but I got the whole unit out without any damage.

The new Sony unit went straight in and all the connectors matched perfectly.

So now I have a great sounding CD player that I can plug my MP3 player into.

New car

darrenlambert — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:25:28 +0000

I have bought myself a new car, a Mazda 323f. I’ve always liked these cars and am really enjoying it. I did a lot of research when I got back from my travels, and settled on a few different cars to buy. Peugeot 306′s had some good reviews and quite a few bad, Honda Civics got generally good reviews, but the Mazda definitely had the best reviews.

I looked at 2 323s before I bought this one. It has FSH and has just been serviced and MOT’d. It drives really well. It has a couple of marks on the body work, but I can sort that fairly easily.

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