20 Most Recent Sony CDX-L480X CD Player Questions & Answers

It sounds like the volume button may be jammed or the volume up switch may be bad. If the switch is open just enough to let some voltage through it locks up the microprocessor. Unless you have a multimeter and know how to check resistance on a switch you would be better having a professional repair person check it out.

ok that will work fine please tell me what the problem is genrally if ir caravan had a tape player the plug should be the same as this unit uses a uni plug if not there will be a converter for under 5 pounds

Yellow: battery constant 12v Red: Ignition 12v Black: GND ground White and White with Black stripe: Left front speaker. White is positive (+) Grey and Grey with Black stripe: Right front speaker. Grey is positive. (+) Green and Green with Black stripe: Left rear speaker. Green is positive. (+) Purple and Purple with Black stripe: Right rear speaker. Purple is positive. (+) Blue: Antena remote turn on. Blue with Wite stripe: Amplifier remote turn on. I think thats all of them. Make sure to connect your positives and negative correctly or you will have phasing problems. dreamsystems

Hi,
Click Sony Support link and download installation guide for CDX-L480X that has wires color details.
Thanks.

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Please try to put in an ordinary audio CD track and see if this is detected. If yes the optical is working, if not there is no laser scanning ,then the possibility of the head being faulty is high.
Now certain cleaner disks are not read and so will not be tracked. Hence it could reject but the best is do a cleaning manually of the laser head eye with a cotton bud very softly and without any pressing of the lens eye.
If there is still no result then watch the CD if it spins or tries to spin. If the head unit moves up or down to focus or in and out of the drive, if so the board seems to work correctly and the possibility of the optical head being the suspected fault is closer.
But if any of the above seems otherwise we must recheck with possibilities of the processor board

as far as i know, very few sony radios are code protected.

The Manual is downloadable from Sony at

http://pdf.crse.com/manuals/3247340121.pdf

Avulon

I had the same problem, CD not accepted by unit and pressing source button to select CD player causes unit to display reset.
Using reset button just causes unit to 'whir' for a while, problem is not solved. Firstly with unit switched off, and the ignition off I inserted a CD using some gentle force, I then inserted a second CD, forcing it in over the top of the first. Next I pressed and held the reset button for a short time before releasing it. Both CDs were ejected, when the unit had stopped I took the CDs out, replaced the front panel and turned on the ignition, The unit will now accept CDs and eject them O.K.

(This did take two attempts to get right). Seems to reset the eject status of the CD player.

Avulon