Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 04:06 pm, by: Michael White(Zeph312)
This isn't a fix for everyone cause Factory CD changers are subject to electronic failure but I managed to get it working again flawlessly.
Had a bit of time on my hands the other day and wanted to tinker with something so pulled the changer out of the car to see how it works and understand why it skips every 3 seconds.
I stripped the top, bottom and side plastic parts off, so I could get at the internals. Used a little vacum thing from a computer to suck out all dusk, crap, etc. (didn't strip it far enough to get to reader, wasn't that game) then put it all back together clean and neat.
Went to jaycar and bought a lense cleaning cd (thing with little brush to clean the cd reader. Stuck that in the top slot of the cartridge and let the player chew on that for 10 mins.
Finally I loaded all the CDs back in the cartridge and let it load. Then once it had checked all the disks with cartridge still in it I pressed and held reset button for 15 seconds (if you do this with top part of casing still off you can watch when you release reset after 15 seconds it moves all the control arms and resets their positions and stuff.
Anyway the end result was not one skip anywhere, I even picked it up and shook it to make it skip. So then I took my other spare changer out of the garage (which was even worse) and did same thing to that one with same results. 2 perfect cd changers now, how good is that?!?!
I am not saying every changer can be fixed with a clean and a reset and I know many of you have done away with them completely but for the cost of a cleaning cd at jaycar($10.95) and a bit of time taking it apart and cleaning it has gotta be worth a go.
I was so blown away with the results I thought I should post this cause it might help at least one person out.
Nothing more frustrating than a skipping CD hey??
If this does help anyone let me know cause I don't believe I am just that lucky
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 04:16 pm, by: Michael White(Zeph312)
Oh yeah and I forgot to mention if you are still using a changer, do yourself a favour, take off the top section(only 5 screws, 4 inside the top slide and 1 at far end) and bypass the stupid switch that tells the unit when the top slide is shut. Either the plastic breaks or the switch on all the changers I have had and it makes no difference what so ever to have the switch set so it always thinks the slide is closed.
Previous
