CD Player Blues

[jerrym3]

Re: CD Player Blues

Mine stuck the other day. Used a credit card, and the CD came right out.

[Sealy]

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Mine hasn't stuck in a long time. Then again, it's sitting on a shelf in the basement.

[tbird6t4]

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Well the A/C suggestion didn't work, nor did the eject all so after several frustrating weeks, I peaked into the slot and could see the jambed CD and pushed it with a small pen knife while holding the load button and BINGO!

I am back in business, but just in case I burned another copy of the offending disk. It was Choo Choo Thunder of all things sure didn't want to lose that one since it a great reminder of our trip to Chattanooga.

I guess when the weather gets up into that 90 plus range I should forget about ejecting any CD until night fall or early morning when it is a little cooler.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Gord

[Gobird]

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Sooner or later you'll all have to do what I did if you want to keep the stock unit and that's send it out and have it rebuilt. They will all have these problems if they are used a lot. I dealt with this for about 2 years before it stopped working altogether.

[Ol'Dave]

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New FORD's = NO CD's

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/fo...ars-37400.html

[MerlotBlue]

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Ah, the "fun" of the new antique that is music recorded on CD.

Just one more reason to love my little 16GB flash "thumb drives" I use now in the T-Birds. (having the contents of near 100 CDs is pretty cool too)

It was about a year ago that I last dealt with this issue, in my Ford truck. (Still haven't converted that one)

Honestly? I'm kinda surprised we don't deal with this problem more often. Multi disc changers just have so many moving parts that could potentially screw up.

Someone suggested tweezers? Probably a good idea. I managed to retrieve my stuck disc with a little gentle prodding of the disc with a screw driver but either way it still worries my for the idea that I might bend or break something as I lever or pull at the disc.

Gotta be really gentle and patient.......this is no job for the ticked off music lover!

[V8 Cat]

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Flash drives/memory sticks OK, but what I don't want is a hard drive in the dash. I can't imagine how much it would cost to get one of those replaced and all of the data moved to the new hard drive. I guess my point is with all of the heat generated in the car while moving or baking in the sun with the windows closed and/or extreme cold in the winter, how long do you think it would be before you have problems with a hard drive? Does any car company even put hard drives in autos? I know the Jag I have has a cooling fan in the dash to keep the electronics/touch screen cool now.

[MerlotBlue]

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Flash drives/memory sticks OK, but what I don't want is a hard drive in the dash. I can't imagine how much it would cost to get one of those replaced and all of the data moved to the new hard drive. I guess my point is with all of the heat generated in the car while moving or baking in the sun with the windows closed and/or extreme cold in the winter, how long do you think it would be before you have problems with a hard drive? Does any car company even put hard drives in autos? I know the Jag I have has a cooling fan in the dash to keep the electronics/touch screen cool now.

Yeah, I think the whole idea of "hard drives" came and went away in the blink of an eye.

Most folks probably don't even realize that idea was ever implemented.

Today it's all thumb drives.

I use a Kenwood in dash navigation and receiver in the T-Birds now. These units don't come especially cheap but the "pig-tail" in my glove box accepts the removable memory and seems like the way to go now.

It isn't necessary to buy and expensive unit though.

On the other side of the economic scale is the Alpine unit I put in a '79 Corvette that wouldn't accommodate a double-din unit anyway. It was very inexpensive. Less than $200. It looks just like the 20 year old Pioneer CD player it replaced but for the USB port on the front that accepts the same thumb drives I use in the T-Birds.

I can't even begin to describe how much better it is having access to .....again near 100 CDs, all on this one little drive.

My CDs are now really nothing more than a Library of music that never get actually played anymore. They simply take up space in a closet now.