I just got a new car today, and it came with a 6 cd changer in the trunk..

 

 

 

I loaded it up with CDs, and, apart from being a bit slow (IMO), it worked perfectly fine for a while. Then it started skipping really badly, though, and now it won't work at all..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone have any ideas?

new car? take it back tell them whats wrong..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

used car.. your sol...

Probably a broken cd changer or sterio, thats why they didnt take it out to sell. :P

Used car from a large dealer.. they better fix it if it is broken..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I blew in the cd changer and the magazine, that fixed it temporarily. I'm just gonna get a can of air and blow it out really good and see if that helps me.

If blowing in it made it start working again it could just be so dusty in there that the eye can't read the cd's through the dust. After you get a can of compressed air and blow it out, try buying a cleaning cd that has a little brush on the cd to clean the lens and run that through the thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As far as I know there's nothing you can do about skipping though, you hit a bump, it's gonna skip. The only thing that compensates for this is if your changer has a skip delay where it reads ahead of what is playing and stores it in a buffer so that it isn't directly playing whats on the cd. That way a shock won't disrupt the playing and the cd reader eye has a chance to find where it was reading again and start reading once more. That's why if you have a portable cd player with like a 20 second skip delay, you can bang on it and drop it and it won't skip, but if you go jogging with it and it's subjected to numerous shocks in succession it will start to skip, because the buffer runs out of music to play and the laser eye isn't able to continue feeding more data into the buffer. If your cd changer doesn't have a skip delay built in I don't think there's anything you can do to add it, you just have to buy a newer one with that feature.

get a ipod :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or get one of those new mp3 cd car players.. i saw one at wallyworld (wallmart for the uninitiated) for like $100 or so

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it takes flash drives and plays mp3's on them.. and has inputs for other mp3 players to play though the deal..

Used car from a large dealer.. they better fix it if it is broken..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I blew in the cd changer and the magazine, that fixed it temporarily. I'm just gonna get a can of air and blow it out really good and see if that helps me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Third party audio equipment is very rarely covered under warrenty. good luck getting them to fix it

The CD changers that are boot mounted (or trunk mounted) do tend to skip a lot, because of their placement, which is usually over the rear axel. Not sure what to suggest really as i've never owned one myself, but try talking to the people who sold you the car. Unfortunately, i think what matt said is probably right, unless you have some kind of warranty which covers audio equipment.

I have one in the car I bought, and I had some skipping issues. I blamed it on being 8 years old (the car is 12) and low quality equipment. I put a new deck in and left the CD's in the player and now I can't get them out though, apparently there's no manual removal of the magazine. Don't make that mistake...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAybe run one of those cleaning disks through it? It could just be fairly dirty. Also things like that tend to pick up on any imperfections in the CD so make sure your disks are clean.