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CD player won't read CDs anymore. Repairable?
I assume this kind of question is as applicable to non-car audio but
i'm sure repair costs are quite different. Our car deck (default 2001 Toyota Corolla CD/Radio) has stopped recognising CDs, or is at least very spotty about it. You put a disk in, it scans it for longer than usual, then comes up with Err instead of showing the track and time index that it would if it had started playing. This happens with both original and burnt disks. Sometimes ejecting and re-inserting will work. Sometimes when it is currently working, skipping forward a couple tracks causes it to lose tracking and fail. To me it seem to be on the verge of failing since i can't reliably make it fail nor reliably fix it if it just doesn't want to read cds that day. I tried a cd lens cleaner and that didn't seem to help at all so i assume it's a case of the lens being out of alignment or something like that. Not hard to believe with all the vibration/bouncing that goes on in a car. Is this a common problem that anyone can remedy by taking the radio apart and tightening a screw or something? Or is this something that needs to be done by a 'professional' and therefore i'm better off just buying a new deck? p.s. I was all set to buy a new deck so i took this one out to check the wiring and antenna plug. After re-inserting it doesn't fail as often. But it still does sometimes. This is what got me thinking that maybe it's repairable instead of a completel writeoff. Any thoughts appreciated. |
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CD player won't read CDs anymore. Repairable?
"kevins_news" wrote in message
... I assume this kind of question is as applicable to non-car audio but i'm sure repair costs are quite different. Our car deck (default 2001 Toyota Corolla CD/Radio) has stopped recognising CDs, or is at least very spotty about it. You put a disk in, it scans it for longer than usual, then comes up with Err instead of showing the track and time index that it would if it had started playing. This happens with both original and burnt disks. Sometimes ejecting and re-inserting will work. Sometimes when it is currently working, skipping forward a couple tracks causes it to lose tracking and fail. To me it seem to be on the verge of failing since i can't reliably make it fail nor reliably fix it if it just doesn't want to read cds that day. I tried a cd lens cleaner and that didn't seem to help at all so i assume it's a case of the lens being out of alignment or something like that. Not hard to believe with all the vibration/bouncing that goes on in a car. Is this a common problem that anyone can remedy by taking the radio apart and tightening a screw or something? Or is this something that needs to be done by a 'professional' and therefore i'm better off just buying a new deck? p.s. I was all set to buy a new deck so i took this one out to check the wiring and antenna plug. After re-inserting it doesn't fail as often. But it still does sometimes. This is what got me thinking that maybe it's repairable instead of a completel writeoff. Any thoughts appreciated. depending on it's in-service date it may still be under warranty, it not how much do you want to spend on a HU?? |
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CD player won't read CDs anymore. Repairable?
"kevins_news" wrote in message
I assume this kind of question is as applicable to non-car audio but i'm sure repair costs are quite different. Our car deck (default 2001 Toyota Corolla CD/Radio) has stopped recognising CDs, or is at least very spotty about it. You put a disk in, it scans it for longer than usual, then comes up with Err instead of showing the track and time index that it would if it had started playing. This happens with both original and burnt disks. Sometimes ejecting and re-inserting will work. Sometimes when it is currently working, skipping forward a couple tracks causes it to lose tracking and fail. To me it seem to be on the verge of failing since i can't reliably make it fail nor reliably fix it if it just doesn't want to read cds that day. I tried a cd lens cleaner and that didn't seem to help at all so i assume it's a case of the lens being out of alignment or something like that. Not hard to believe with all the vibration/bouncing that goes on in a car. Is this a common problem that anyone can remedy by taking the radio apart and tightening a screw or something? Or is this something that needs to be done by a 'professional' and therefore i'm better off just buying a new deck? p.s. I was all set to buy a new deck so i took this one out to check the wiring and antenna plug. After re-inserting it doesn't fail as often. But it still does sometimes. This is what got me thinking that maybe it's repairable instead of a completel writeoff. Any thoughts appreciated. Have you tried cleaning the lense? Adair |
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CD player won't read CDs anymore. Repairable?
"Tha Ghee" wrote in message ...
"kevins_news" wrote in message ... I assume this kind of question is as applicable to non-car audio but i'm sure repair costs are quite different. Our car deck (default 2001 Toyota Corolla CD/Radio) has stopped recognising CDs, or is at least very spotty about it. You put a disk in, it scans it for longer than usual, then comes up with Err instead of showing the track and time index that it would if it had started playing. This happens with both original and burnt disks. Sometimes ejecting and re-inserting will work. Sometimes when it is currently working, skipping forward a couple tracks causes it to lose tracking and fail. To me it seem to be on the verge of failing since i can't reliably make it fail nor reliably fix it if it just doesn't want to read cds that day. I tried a cd lens cleaner and that didn't seem to help at all so i assume it's a case of the lens being out of alignment or something like that. Not hard to believe with all the vibration/bouncing that goes on in a car. Is this a common problem that anyone can remedy by taking the radio apart and tightening a screw or something? Or is this something that needs to be done by a 'professional' and therefore i'm better off just buying a new deck? p.s. I was all set to buy a new deck so i took this one out to check the wiring and antenna plug. After re-inserting it doesn't fail as often. But it still does sometimes. This is what got me thinking that maybe it's repairable instead of a completel writeoff. Any thoughts appreciated. depending on it's in-service date it may still be under warranty, it not how much do you want to spend on a HU?? 60,000Km or 4 years. I'm at 65,000. And Toyota says they can find me another 2001 Corolla radio. It costs $600CAN?!?!?!? I didn't even bother asking why it was so much. Maybe it's an obsolete model and a special order. Who knows. Instead I found the JVC-s890 with mp3 compatability for $199CAN at bestbuy and it looks like i'm going to just go with that other than deal with the hassle of repairs. Luckily this is the cheapest mp3 compatable HU i can find and it also ends up being the one i like best. I don't want to have to flip the face to insert cds and i like the button layout. |
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