The more often you play tapes in your car’s cassette player, the more debris accumulates. The tape in a cassette sheds oxide that builds up on the tape heads and guides. Over time, this build-up affects the sound quality of the tapes. Dirty tape players may emit a low, fluttering or static sound. Because a car cassette player’s parts are internal, the best way to clean it is with a head cleaning tape. This cleaner comes in cassette form and can simply be inserted into the player to clean those parts that are hard to see and access without taking the player apart and voiding the warranty. Writer Bio

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