Bleach

I replaced that black box on my turbo Z today. Now "The Voice" aka, talking lady works quite well.

I took the old one apart. It had quite a bit of water damage. Lots of rust and corrosion.

The white disc is the record.... got 1 turntable and a micro-tire.

a small electric motor spins a rubber band that spins the disc. High tech!

NismoPick

Water damage? Quite a hard place to get water up to... Is your spare tire well rusted out?

lww

Probably from a leaky hatch seal.

Bleach

not too bad actually. The spare tire is in place. The bottom area has lots of surface rust, no plug, but no rot through.
The tire may have been removed at one point and then put back though.... still hard to get water up there.

zfreak1981

my talking lady stopped working once. My problem was that the parking/running lights would not work half of the time. so when the park/run lights didnt work, neither did the voice lady. it was my headlight switch and it fixed the problem with mine.

BlueKitsune

Is there really moving parts in that? Darn I wish I grabbed that one I found today, Id take it apart and maybe figure out why mine says "Lights ah arn!"


Oh I didnt see that one post of it taken apart! NEVERMIND! my bad...

NismoPick

^^^ There he is! I met Blue yesterday at the Pick n Pull.

FubarI33t

it will sound like a repeating humm sound. if not connected to speakers

SloppyGoat

Haha! I'm so glad my Z doesn't have that. I had a Maxima that had the talking lady, and it drove me insane! I was always contemplating ripping the thing out. If it had one, I'd definitely remove it, or at least put a switch on it to turn it off.

Bleach

It only says something when you're doing something wrong! why would it be talking all the time?
Its saved me a few times from leaving my lights on and its not loud.

oneadvent

If I pull one of these out of an 83, will it work in my 81?

NismoPick

It was only an option in the 82-83 model. So your 81 is not wired for it. Technically you could probably get it all wired up, but the 10's or 100's of hours spent doing so would not be worth it.

oneadvent

What would i have to get so it is? Is it really worth it, I have never even heard one, so I dont know what it says/does really, but I have a spare black box sitting in my parts box.

NismoPick

You need the box & wiring harness. Then run all the wires to each of the sensors (lights, e-brake, fuel, speed, doors) then run the power, and to the speakers. I split apart the wiring harness for the box one time & labeled most of the wires. By the time I got done dividing & labeling them, I knew it was not worth my time to try to manually hook one up.

And... most people hate the box & remove it anyway.

If you are dying to hear the lady "bitch" at you when you leave a door open, lights on, or run out of fuel, buy an 82-83 zx.

oneadvent

lol thats funny, alright I will skip on all that then. Too bad thats all that work. Is there anywhere online that I can here what the "she-z" would say? It just really bugs me now.

lilt304

My talking lady worked. Then i unpluged to radio and speakers and you can barely hear her. I think im going to remove it totally. She annoys me!

oneadvent

But what does she say? See thats whats killing me...maybe I'll just give mine some power and see what it does.

Warren

Left door is open
Right door is open
Park brake is set
Fuel is low
Lights are on

That's all she says.

Alot of people think she says AJAR instead of OPEN, but nope, it''s OPEN.

oneadvent

Does it repeat or does it just say it once?

Sorry but this feature sounds so interesting...(and annoying)

ZBRICK

If you are dying to hear the lady "bitch" at you when you leave a door open, lights on, or run out of fuel, buy an 82-83 zx. [/QUOTE]

Or just get married

Warren

Repeats all but fuel is low every few seconds until the condition is corrected. Fuel is low is repeated about every 3 minutes.

lilt304

It repeats over and over and over.

oneadvent

lol alright thanks for the information guys. She does sound very annoying.

lilt304

Like a nagging girlfriend.

NismoPick

In case you haven't fixed yours yet, here's a sound clip I made. Now you'll know why it's cool for about 3 seconds.