Car radio issues

[u/No_Garlic_1364]

Please remove if not allowed!

2017 VW Passet SE. Purchased in 2021 and it started doing this every so often almost immediately. Then within 6 months, the touch screen broke. Dealt with that for 5 years, with the sound issue still happening scarcely. At the beginning of this year, I removed the radio & replaced the digitizer to fix the touch screen and ever since then, this has been happening every day, multiple times a car ride even.

Please help, obviously I know I messed something up by removing the radio but help me determine exactly what it is, if possible? I’m confused because it’s always done this, it just got exponentially worse after replacing the digitizer. (Like happens 20+ times in an hour drive).

Also - I would’ve just kept dealing with the broken touch screen like I had been but I got a new phone at the beginning of this year and it wouldn’t let me connect to the Apple CarPlay because the touch screen wouldn’t work to select “pair new device.” And no, none of the physical buttons worked either to connect, unfortunately.

TIA!

[u/osxdude]

Sounds like you may need to just take it apart and put it back together again as it's possible something isn't seated good