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

[Aaron]

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I can secound this technique.

I was able to probe around in there and make things move.  I plugger her
back in and she worked.
AT

Lee Levitt wrote:

>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
>
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