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[cane87]

This is my latest radio problem. The changer was working perfectly until two days ago. Then, not only did a new CD start skipping, but a CD I had for years got damaged (also skips when played in the head unit).

Is this the magazine, the changer, or some combination? The only previous changer I had was an in-dash 6 disc in the ex's Avalanche, and I have never, in 25 years of owning CDs, had a player damage one.

[plato442]

That's strange. There's gotta be something busted inside if think

[Paulaurora]

Ye something broken inside . My wife's mother using it everyday in her 2003 aurora with no issue.

[scottydl]

What's the nature of the damage to the CD? A long deep scratch (such as something maybe caused by the system loading/unloading the CD within the magazine), or fast circular marks (such as something that was contacting the CD inside the player while it was spinning)? You may only be able to troubleshoot this by finding a replacement magazine and trying it out to see if the performance changes.

[cane87]

There's no visible damage at all to either disc. The only way I even know discs were damaged is, a previously perfect disc skips in the head unit (which is perfectly fine--tested other discs in it). I don't have forty dollars to buy another magazine and test. Any other ideas?

[XJSman89]

Short of visually inspecting the magazine for any obvious defects, there isn't much you can do besides swap parts to see if that fixes your issue. It's such a simple mechanism, it makes me wonder if it's the unit reading the CD that comes out of the magazine that is damaging the disc rather than the magazine itself.

[Randy T.]

What kind of discs are you using? Are they copies or original music discs? Do you have a 3rd cd, dvd player, or computer to test the bad disc in? In my experience I have not seen a disc that is not scratched that causes a skip. If it was me I would take the changer apart, and the head unit apart, and clean the laser eye that reads the cds. Another suggestion is to make copies of your original cds and try the copies out, this also works well with scratched discs because computers can read the discs better than cd players.

[cane87]

1. I don't burn discs. Burned discs are ugly. All originals.

2. I can test the bad discs in a computer, but since they skip in the head unit, this seems a waste of time.

3. I can clean the eye without disassembling anything, I have a cleaner disc. And I don;t know wy I didn't think of that, Thanks.

[Oldsnut]

Burned disc are ugly but they work. Convert to digital for backup so you don't lose the music. You can download new label from the internet.

They also sell CD cleaners/refinishers that are not too much money.

[genedjr]

Disks can also be polished and resurrected unless the sub-straight is damaged. Game shops commonly have the tools to re-polish a disk.
...gene