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[Gatornapper]

Friends -

Posting this for a Porsche friend who has a late '80's 944 Turbo S that he has owned almost since it was new.

He emailed me, "Do you of anyone who can fix vintage Blaupunkt radio's. I have a bad left channel on my Monterey."

As it is original, he really does not want to replace it.

I'm betting someone here will know a repair service for his radio.

Thanks!

GN
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'87 944 S, looks & runs like new - sold my sweet 931; '76 914 2.0 mostly restored; 2011 Porsche Cayman S in Meteor Grey, 3.4L, Softronics ECU tune 355+hp , PDK w/Sport Chrono. Got this thing for Porsche's.......

[Gatornapper]

Guys on 914world.com had the answer.

Here.......

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=361242

GN
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'87 944 S, looks & runs like new - sold my sweet 931; '76 914 2.0 mostly restored; 2011 Porsche Cayman S in Meteor Grey, 3.4L, Softronics ECU tune 355+hp , PDK w/Sport Chrono. Got this thing for Porsche's.......

[Beartooth]

You might not have to go too far to find someone who could fix that. I've got a friend who's big into vintage electronics (8-tracks and reel-to-reels in particular), and it's pretty much par for the course to replace some components to get some things to work correctly (and sometimes to work at all). For every shop that can do that kind of thing, there are at least a dozen DIYers who know enough to help you fix such a thing. They're out there, but it's either a matter of luck or working in the right circles to find them.

I've done a little bit of work on such things: I had a capacitor fail and burn up a resistor on the speedo head on my Mercedes, and that wasn't hard to fix. For someone handy with a soldering iron, finding the problem is probably harder than fixing it. Usually, you start by exercising any potentiometers (volume, balance, fader, bass/treble, etc.; if that brings it back, then cleaning them out with something like this https://caig.com/fader-f-series/ should restore it). Next, you look for compromised solder joints, and then bad capacitors. Actually, a lot of audiophile types will just replace any electrolytic capacitors as a matter of course. Those are the cylindrical ones, and they tend to leak or dry out over time. In short, it should be relatively cheap and easy to fix if you find the right person to work on it. Sending it out to a shop that specializes is an option too, but prices vary wildly with them; definitely shop around if that's the route chosen.
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