CD player
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jan 2009
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From: Miami FL
You didn't provide much info. Is this happening to a daily driver, or to a car that is not frequently driven? If it is not a daily driver, do you keep a battery tender on it? How is the "health" of your battery?
The reason I ask all this is because if the battery is not fully charged, or if it is beginning to go down hill, it's possible that when cranking the engine its voltage might fall below a certain threshold, triggering the initialization process in the remote CD changer.
Normally, when the changer gets energized, or a magazine is inserted, it goes through an initialization process that includes scanning all the magazine trays. If power is interrupted, or falls below the acceptable threshold while cranking the engine, this routine gets launched every time. It could even get triggered again while already going through it, which might cause that a tray could be caught midway between the magazine and the playing area. Sometimes, when power is restored, the mechanism is not able to recover from that.
Using a battery tender and removing the magazine when the car is not going to be regularly driven will help prevent this problem.
Last edited by GCG; Apr 17, 2020 at 09:42 PM.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Sep 2013
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From: Wisconsin
I have 3 magazines I rotate in. My player has been running continuously for the last 30K miles without a problem. Perhaps if you can find another magazine you could try it. They are getting hard to find. Maybe a member has one on the shelf.
I do remove magazine when I store car over the winter. That might help to keep it working.
I do use a battery tender, too.
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I do remove magazine when I store car over the winter. That might help to keep it working.
I do use a battery tender, too.
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Last edited by JR-01; Apr 14, 2020 at 12:13 PM.
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Heel & Toe
Joined: Feb 2020
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From: Jackson, NJ
I bought the car 3 weeks ago. It's a 99 with only 7200 miles. So not used much. Also the CD disc holder was still in the plastic and never used since1999. So I don't know if it's because it was never used or maybe the belt just stretched out from never being used.
Le Mans Master
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Not being used for 21 years may have something to do with it.
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