9-3 anniversay SAT NAV touch screen fault

[sean]

Hi All,

I have had a new sat nav laser, and a cd laser fitted to my head unit, now the bleedin touch screen doesn't work!!!

I have spoke to the compnay that replaced the lasers and they are not much help

just to confirm the screen lights up fine etc... just doesnt repond to being touched, can only use hard wired button on the sides

Has anyone else been affected by this, the screen looks perfectly fine, I have took the unit out and checked all leads including the ribbon wire, seems all ok?

Or does anybody know where these can be repaired, thanks all, its the Delphi grundig one.

I have attached a few pics

thanks


Sean

[sgould]

If the whole touch screen doesn't work, it maybe that they have dislodged a ribbon or connector in there when they did the work.  How long between the new laser and the fault occurring?

If it was me, I would be inside the unit having a quick look.  when i took my Denso unit apart on the 9-5, I marked all the screws and their holes with different coloured permanent markers.  There were so many.....

[sean]

I might have a look then there millions of screws!, the unit was ok for a few weeks before it played up, saying that though the suspension on this car is rock hard and it may have dislodged internally?

On the suspension issue, how come its so stiff on the anniversay sport?, I know it has the aero body skirts etc.. whether the suspension was also changed on this model, my previous 9-3 (2006) vector sport wasn't as stiff a ride as my one,can the suspension be softened?

mines the 9-3 1.9Tid vector sport anniversay 2007

Cheers

[sgould]

We have the early car - 2003 model.  I felt that the suspension was harsh and fitted the Hirsch springs.  They are made by Eibach and the Eibach Pro springs are said to be the same and a lot cheaper.  Ride is much better and the car is a bit lower...

[pvw10]

If the whole touch screen doesn't work, it maybe that they have dislodged a ribbon or connector in there when they did the work.  How long between the new laser and the fault occurring?

If it was me, I would be inside the unit having a quick look.  when i took my Denso unit apart on the 9-5, I marked all the screws and their holes with different coloured permanent markers.  There were so many.....

Hi there could you advise where and at what cost you had your repaired please as my 2011 jobby is failing to read the dvds ?
Many thanks
Paul

[sgould]

Welcome!

I never got mine repaired!  I found that the likely cost of fixing the original unit would be too much.  I might have needed a laser and a DVD player.  DVD for the Denso unit could only be found in Germany and that was €350 and the laser was around £100.

I didn't like the unit as it was very basic.  I had a Parrot bluetooth phone kit and a DAB radio unit add-on.  I bought a new Kenwood unit with the radio/DVD/phone/DAB/satnav all in one. 

After about six months with the new unit, my advice would be to avoid buying a Kenwood.  It's quite disappointing.  It does what it says it will do, more or less, but the software is very unreliable.  I bought it in April and fitted it in May.  A day or two after I fitted it, there was a software upgrade.  I installed it.  Two days later, Kenwood withdrew it.  The unit would do random restarts, usually at critical moments. It would randomly lose satellites and the phone rarely connects automatically each time you get in the car.

I wish I had done more research and gone for a different make.  Alpine?

The cost of repair of the original unit was a lot, but a new unit from Saab would have been £3200!!!!!!

If you have a 9-3 Sport Saloon from 2007 onwards, there is a special Saab update unit, but it will cost £1000.

[ScarbSaab]

Hi there could you advise where and at what cost you had your repaired please as my 2011 jobby is failing to read the dvds ?

This may be a blind alley, but I recently had a problem with our house DVD player failing to read disks. After running it with the top off I found the drive motor was failing. (What is the world coming to? I paid £30 for it 7 years ago and it's packing up already.  ) I had another one which wasn't as good on the picture output and decided to try a transplant of the mechanism. Turned out to be incompatible, but I found that the drive motor could be swapped - it just needed the power leads soldering on. This solved the problem, so it might be worth investigating this first rather than assuming it's the laser.

I'm not sure how you could get to see inside whilst it is powered, but I also found that the failing motor would stop almost immediately, whereas the good motors spin on for a while with a disk on them. So you might be able to check for the bearing seizing up if you can figure a way to hand spin a disk on the drive motor.

[pvw10]

Hi there could you advise where and at what cost you had your repaired please as my 2011 jobby is failing to read the dvds ?

This may be a blind alley, but I recently had a problem with our house DVD player failing to read disks. After running it with the top off I found the drive motor was failing. (What is the world coming to? I paid £30 for it 7 years ago and it's packing up already.  ) I had another one which wasn't as good on the picture output and decided to try a transplant of the mechanism. Turned out to be incompatible, but I found that the drive motor could be swapped - it just needed the power leads soldering on. This solved the problem, so it might be worth investigating this first rather than assuming it's the laser.

I'm not sure how you could get to see inside whilst it is powered, but I also found that the failing motor would stop almost immediately, whereas the good motors spin on for a while with a disk on them. So you might be able to check for the bearing seizing up if you can figure a way to hand spin a disk on the drive motor.

Mmm thats  a good shout thanks.

Its a great car with Hirsch edu etc and love it but think i will find a repairer here in UK to check it out and advise the cost, at that point i can either pay or scrap it. Can anybody recommend a trustworthy repairer ?

Thanks
Paul