# 2002 hyundai cassette player

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-hyundai-cassette-player/38344>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** hyundai\
**Created:** [October 19, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-hyundai-cassette-player/38344 "2009-10-19T23:20:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![joecoop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7cd45c/32.png) [@joecoop](https://community.cartalk.com/u/joecoop)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-hyundai-cassette-player/38344/1 "2009-10-19T23:20:57Z")

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Tape is stuck! How to remove it or remove the face plate to get to it?

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**Author:** ![galant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/77aa72/32.png) [@galant](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galant)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-hyundai-cassette-player/38344/2 "2009-10-20T03:38:55Z")

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Do you really need the tape? For the most part these players are really disposable, so when one goes bad your best move is to put a new one in, that is if the car is in decent shape otherwise.

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**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 11:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-hyundai-cassette-player/38344/3 "2009-10-20T11:49:18Z")

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You’ll probably have to remove the entire radio/cassette player and disassemble it to get the tape back. I doubt the faceplate can be removed while the unit is still in the dashboard.

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**Author:** ![joecoop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7cd45c/32.png) [@joecoop](https://community.cartalk.com/u/joecoop)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-hyundai-cassette-player/38344/4 "2009-10-20T22:52:58Z")

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The tape is not important but I would like to remove it from the unit.

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**Author:** ![galant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/77aa72/32.png) [@galant](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galant)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-hyundai-cassette-player/38344/5 "2009-10-21T05:53:22Z")

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You can try a long and thin screw driver or something like that and use it as a lever under the cassette and see if it will pop out. Usually you can try this with the player in different modes, on/off/play/rewind etc. By doing this you might break the unit or tear the cassette, but probably less work than taking the whole unit out.