[s-cars] Re: S-CAR-List Digest, Vol 7, Issue 20

[William Noland]

But, how many horsepower do you figure you picked up with this discovery?  :-)

Bill Noland


> S-gruppees:  I know at this point this information is not very
> important.  Nevertheless I thought that I would share a "discovery":
>
> Having only (finally) acquired an OEM CD changer for my 93 carbon
> fibre,  I was a bit annoyed to find that when I turned the head unit off
> while a CD was playing, when it was turned back on it went back to the
> beginning of the track.  This is fine if you like that song but
> otherwise you have to skip (fast forward to the next track) and miss the
> last part of the track in question.  I played with the changer on the
> way home last night and discovered that if you press the Mode button
> (putting the head unit back to RADIO) before turning the head unit off,
> when you turn the head unit back on and then hit MODE, the CD changer
> returns (after a pause) to the same position in the track that was
> playing before MODE was hit the first time.  Nothing earth shattering
> like a way to a free 10 hp but interesting (well, okay, maybe only to me
> but...)
>
> I just checked the CD changer manual (a jpg copy that I was sent).  On
> page 4 under "Mode Button" is says "If you press the Mode button while
> the CD is playing, the unit will switch back to the radio.  If you press
> the button twice, the CD will begin playing at the point where it had
> been stopped".    So I presume that my "discovery" is making use of this
> built-in track-position memory feature.
>
> Sorry for the trivia.  Please return to previous discussions.