CD Player Problems

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I know this isn't an uprating question, and it has to do with electricity. My factory CD Player quit accepting CD's tonight. This is the second one that I have had in the truck in about two months. It was broken when I picked it up from the dealer, and they gladly swapped it with one from another vehicle. Now it doesn't work again. Has anyone else had this problem? Should I just buy a new aftermarket CD player?

It seems like the disk sensor is either broken or bad, because it will eject if you shove the disk in part of the way. Has anyone taken one apart??

BTW good work everyone for keeping the post count up. If not for Joe Donnelly where would we be?

Brian

 

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Yep I have had the same problem. But the seems to fix it self after a couple of weeks of me not trying to insert a CD. I think it all started when acidently jamed the CD when it was trying to eject these truck don't ride like Cadillacs. So take a break from playing CDs and try after about a week and don't upset the CD mechanism while it is doing it's job, also false insert seems to do the seem thing. Hope this helps.

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97' 3500 CC 4x2
Cummins,TSTed Auto, Bright
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That is probably what happened last night. I had the cup holder out and reached for the tune button but accidently hit eject. The CD probably hit my finger or something on the way out. Thanks for your help?

Brian

 

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Brian, if you do decide to put another one in, go with aftermarket. Mine acts up all the time. If I have a CD in while listening to the radio and hit any button in particular, it may decide to spit the CD out. Playing a CD and want to change track? Hit seek up and sometimes it goes down. Sometimes it goes up and sometimes it ejects it. #ad
It basically does what it wants, when it wants. Haven't had your problem and I think the sound is pretty good, but I'd never fool with another factory unit.

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Chris
95 3500 CC SLT Cummins auto
TST 230hp kit, TC lockup switch, TransGo.
Isspro EGT, trans/rearend temp, boost gauges
A-Pillar Mounted
Scotty Air System, Factory Cat-Delete Pipe

 

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I had mine replaced under warranty and it has worked well for three years now. The original went out within the first few months(mid '96). If the dealer just took out one from another truck, then you probably got another one made in the bad run of production. My dealer had to order in a replacement and they said they were improved, due to all the troubles with a 'bad run' in production. My replacement is fine and I play the HELL out of some CD's!!

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1996 White, Extra-cab, 4X4, 5-speed, 4. 10 Model 80 rear, Laramie Pkg, Rickson Truck Accessories 19. 5" wheels with Michelin XZT load range 'G' mud type tires, Full straight-pipe exhaust, Mopar brush guard, K&N air filter, removed turbo silencer ring, Banks Boost & Pyro Guages (pillar mounted) 'tweaked' injector pump (cam plate all the way forward, AFC control run all the way in), well over 120k miles, lots of GOOD, BLACK SMOKE!!, Rollin'-S 25-foot, 10 ton flatbed trailer, with Vacuum/Hydraulic brakes, 16. 5" tandem dual Dexter axles

On order: 4" down pipe, 4" stack, "PSYCHOTTY AIR", ... . Can't wait!!!

 

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Well, I waited over a month and the CD player still wasn't working. I decided to open it up and see if there was anything obvious wrong with the unit. I figured out how the loading mech. worked and loaded one of my burnt CD's thinking 1 CD is better than none.

I loaded that CD by pushing it in with a screwdriver and then using a small screwdriver to rotate the white plastic gears on the right side of the radio (under the top cover). This pushes a plastic rack towards the rear of the radio lowering the CD onto the drive. I plugged the radio back up and the CD played. I decided to see if the loader worked again and it did also. That saved me a lot of money.

I took the muffler out of my 4" system for a few days this weekend. It sounded cool, but I don't think I would get away with driving it in downtown Louisville for long.

Thanks for all the replies. I hope someone else will use this info and save the cost of a radio.

Brian

 

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I had problems with mine too. I decided to get a CD changer to mount under the front seat. It works through my factory radio via the antenna. It lets you keep the factory radio and sound. It was real easy to install and works great. Now I can keep 10 CD's goin. With it being under the seat it is easy to load and unload the cartridge. Jost my 2 cents.

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1994 Ram 2500 Laramie SLT, Cummins turbo diesel, 2WD, Automatic(beefed up after a few rebuilds) Ranch Hand steel brush guard, Westin Step bars. sprayed in liner. silencer ring removed, Flowmaster muffler, chrome turn down pipe out the side, Velvet ride shackles. www.gitchesumatfreeweb.com/curtis.htm

 

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I'm moving this over to the 2nd Gen Ram forum. It's not really 12V specific, nor a drivetrain topic.

Thanks guys

Mark

 

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Glad you could get your CD player working again, but I wouldn't trust it any farther than I could throw it. I am planning on getting a new truck in October, and the only reason I am getting the tape player is because I can't get the truck without a radio. The day it leaves the lot, the factory radio goes on the shelf next to the factory units from my '91 W150 and my brother's Dakota, as well as several others. You can get so much more out of an aftermarket stereo it's unreal. I guess being a musician makes me appreciate my music more, and having a brother who works for a stereo shop helps even more. The only factory system I know of that is good is what they put in the McLauren F1, but those cars are custom fit to the driver and cost a cool mil. The system I have in the '91 cost me about $6-700, and it sounds a lot better than any factory system I have heard.

I would reccomend Clarion, Alpine, or Kenwood. I had an old Alpine in my rough-riding '91, and I had a hard time getting it to skip. I basically had to hit something REALLY HARD to make it skip. Most players will skip going across railroad tracks. Check out the truck page on my website to see what all I have in there (I think it's current). Yes it's a gasser; I don't have the money yet to get a Cummins. ccwf. cc. utexas. edu/~jwgary

 

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If you think installing a radio in a truck is dificult, try a pumpkin! #ad
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This is the Alpine radio I used to have in my truck, and I believe the factory speakers from my brother's dakota. My brother won a pumpkin carving contest with this one, and even got it published in a national car audio magazine

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You rember my radio, right?? It is a pioneer DEH-P75DH. I have yet to get it to skip, and you saw all of the mud splashed on the bottom side of the hood. I got it at HHGreg in Clarksville. And it has a remote too, for all of those times you are too far from the truck. It is a tall one that fits neatly in the hole without any spacer plate.

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Its out of the body shop and back home!!!
1996 2500 ST regular cab,long bed, 4x4, 5 speed, Rhino Liner Scotty Air
Stock plate must have slid forward when I hit the brakes
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I think I will stick with my current radio for a while longer. I need to get a new clutch in soon, and I need to try to get up some money to buy Rickson's before winter. Now that I am not in school anymore I don't really need it. I don't take very long trips.

Brian

 

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I am on my second Ram now, and have put a 6 disk cd changer in both. The first was due to finding a friend of a good friend worked the parts counter at a local Dodge dealer.
The six disk CD changers are Alpine, and are cheaper from Dodge than after market.
I had few problems with it, so when I ordered my '99, I made sure to get the radio/tape with the CD controls. I had the CD changer in hand before the Pickup came, and It was the first mod to the truck. It was not easy to convince the salesman why I wanted that particular radio, but the Alpine/Dodge changer works well, though the new one does skip occasionally.

 

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I think you will find that most of the most recent CD players almost NEVER skip unless you put them in a paint shaker.

This is due to advancements in technology. What is done now, is basically a "look-ahead" system, where the player is reading data "ahead" of where you are listening, and storing that data to memory. It is looking a LONG time ahead of when you actually hear it.

This way, when you hit a bump, that skip happens LONG before you hear it, and the CD player detects an error, and then has time to re-read it properly, store it to memory again, and carry on reading. By the time YOU hear the music, all the errors are corrected and skips re-read.

Ah, the glory of hi-tech, EH?

Shawn

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'99 2500 ISB QC 4x4 5spd SB, Camper Special, Tow package, Intense Blue, 275 Injectors, Armourthane color matched box liner, Reese 14K slider, Tekonsha Voyager.