u/Fortunate-Fete

Image 1 — Car flooded, now audio isn't working - 2016 Mazda CX-9 Grand Touring
Image 2 — Car flooded, now audio isn't working - 2016 Mazda CX-9 Grand Touring
Image 3 — Car flooded, now audio isn't working - 2016 Mazda CX-9 Grand Touring
Image 4 — Car flooded, now audio isn't working - 2016 Mazda CX-9 Grand Touring
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Car flooded, now audio isn't working - 2016 Mazda CX-9 Grand Touring

The car has been completely aired out, all carpets and sub-carpets removed for 3 weeks. I am not asking for flood advice (unless you can tell me how to get rid of the river smell), I just need help restoring audio.

I bought fuses off of Amazon, so idk if they're shitty quality and that's the issue, but every fuse related to audio has been replaced (2 in cabin labeled Audio and Interior) and 3 or 4 in the engine bay. Still nothing.

I took apart the doors and verified that no water actually got into the speakers or any wiring within the doors, so I'm wondering if floorboard wiring has any connection to the speakers? Everything else electrical works. I also used dialectric grease for any connections that were under water.

The audio system has been reset to factory settings. The radio and bluetooth both do not emit any sound whatsoever.

Honestly, my mind is fucking boggled. I'll take it to the audio guys soon, but as I'm unemployed, I'd like to try at home first, so any help is deeply appreciated.

u/Fortunate-Fete — 2 days ago

D101 crashout - just fully annoyed and wanted to voice it somewhere.

I'm in D101, which I know will already have some people cringing at the thought of that class, but I actually enjoy the material. It has me thinking that I might pursue a CMA after graduation.

  • What pisses me off is all the typos in the material and quizzes.
  • The tables are set up differently for the PA than the in-material videos, so there's basically no point in trying to memorize.
  • The supplementary videos they provide that are made by actual WGU staff are literally just bored voices reading directly from slides, word-for-word- they can't even be bothered to show you the math step-by-step.
  • We get max 2 examples in the material each lesson and nothing else to practice with. No worksheets, nada.
  • The PA doesn't give explanations for wrong answers like quizzes do, which sucks because they present info differently on the PA than the quizzes.
  • In some lessons where we'd really benefit from videos, there are none!

And so on and so on.

It amazes me that they've basically paid the accounting guy to use his videos and then slapped some sample questions together for quizzes and have some crappy, low-effort videos.

WHY AM I PAYING FOR THIS!? I'm not a dunce, either, I could pass the exam today but I'm trying to review the areas that I want to know more about so I can go in confidently and it's just reminding me that the material is so fucking low effort, it's almost a crime. They could do so much better. I'm fully offended by the mistakes and typos and crappy videos, it's almost disrespectful.

Yes, I'm learning. Yes, I'd still recommend this school to others who want an online format or who want to accelerate, but I honestly feel like I'm paying too much and not receiving enough in return.

Anyway, that's my crashout.

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u/Fortunate-Fete — 3 days ago