[s-cars] Ray Tomlinson in need of CD changer assistance on the road

[Lee Levitt]

Bob writes:
>
>
> Fellow S-car owner Ray Tomlinson is on the road to Watkins Glen and is in
> dire need of assistance from the audiophiles on the list.  His CD changer
> has refused to work for the past 311 miles and Ray is about to shoot
> himself.  Apparently there is a dearth of music choices on the airwaves in
> central NY.  Ray has a '95.5 S6 with the wide face Delta radio and Alpine
> based 6 disc changer.  He gets a CD 00 ERR message on the radio
> display.  He can not eject the cartridge.  The eject button is not lit as
it
> normally is.
> He has tried disconnecting and reconnecting the changer harness.
> He said he thinks he has power to the connector because he can hear a pop
through the
> speakers when he reconnects.

Sorry I'm responding late to this, but I just saw the message.

I had the same problem with my changer ('95.5 S6 avant) and was able to
clear the error.

Remove the unit from the car. Remove the external housing that covers the
guts of the player.

There is probably a disk in the unit. Manually eject the disk...there's a
swingarm near the top/back of the unit that will allow you to do so. (I'm
doing this from memory, which is shot).

Once that disk is out and you are able to manually exercise the loading
mechanism, the unit will work properly.

Reinstall the external case, reinstall the unit back in the vehicle, turn on
the power and verify use.

Hope Ray enjoyed the Country & Western music in upstate NY. Course he
probably stopped in Utica and bought some Bee Gees on tape :)

HTH,

Lee
'95.5 S6 avant
'96 A6 quattro avant