OK, here is an Easter Egg for you.

With your radio ON (FM/AM modes only), press and hold your preset stations #3 and #6 simultaneously. After about a second, "speaker walkaround" and diag mode comes up!

Full details in the attached PDF.

 

Pretty cool. Now only if there was an easter egg to get the stereo to play cd's properly.

 

Well, run the freakin diagnostics!

Mine's been playing MP3 CDs perfectly since day one.

 

This has been a Ford corporate trick for years. I used to play around with it in the Villagers of the early nineties.

If you just found it, good for you. But it's not a secret. Almost all ford's radios do this.

 

HammyZTS:

Since it isn't documented in owners manual, I thought I'd pass it along.

In fact, MOST of the facts that people find on this site aren't SECRET. The purpose of this site is to pass along information that is otherwise hard to find. If you have a problem with that, then you are probably on the wrong board.

 

haha, i love a little playful banter back and forth.....i wasn't aware of it so thanks for the info.....would be nice if it played cd's better....mine skips at some point on every track of every disk i've put in it pretty much.....shame as i expected better after all the pub on the system...

 

Swingle-
It really sounds like Ford has some TSBs coming on the Shaker. Have you brought it back to the dealer?

Hammy- I didn't mean to sound so heavy handed, you probably didn't either.

 

M1 for what its worth I think you are cool.

 

How about sending us all of that manual!

 

Second vote for an .ISO file of that DVD please

 

So will this work on my 03 with the Mach 460?

 

I thank you for the tip, I'll be on it tomorrow!

I've only had the occasional skip of a CD, whether store-bought or self-burnt. But, hopefully that too can be eliminated eventually.

 

Thanks, I played around with this and now I have a question. For those that have the Shaker 500 what did it display for the subwoofers? During the speaker walkaround I noticed that it only displayed subwoofer 1 which was the driver side. Shouldn't subwoofer 2 be the passenger side

 

M1 for what its worth I think you are cool.
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Maybe you two wanna get together and hold hands & sing "Kum Bi Ya"?

LMAO don't get all bent out of shape now....
Jokes jokes jokes... I'm j/k!
but seriously thanks for the tip M1. Would this actually help fix the MP3 problem a lot of Shakers are experiencing or just tell me what we already know,
" Your Shaker is @#$%ed get a new one dumb hiney!"

I love this site, you guys with your info. make it what it is and it's appreciated! $15 well spent!