help! cd player in jeep not working!

[stereorob]

i have a 1996 jeep grand cherokee with the factory infinity stereo, it sounded pretty good plus ontop of a in dash cd player it also has a cassette, unfortunatly the cd player has been acting up alot lately, first of all it was playing burned cds when it wanted to. now it wont play them at all. it will play regular cds but if there is even 1 stupid little scratch, it wont play. then other times it will be playing fine and suddenly just freeze in the middle of a song. ive tried everything. lens cleaner cds with the little brushes, etc, nothing seems to work.i really dont wanna replace it cause it sounds pretty good for factory crap, can anyone offer some advice??*bigthumbdown**fit*

[retrokeeper]

Wellll....if your handy and mechanically inclined,remove the deck from the Jeep,pop the top,look and see where the CD eye is in the player,clean the eye with a q-tip and alcohol,spray with canned air to dry,re-install and see if it cured your problem. Rob

[Warped Bezel]

If it's truly non-demonstrandum, beyond morbid, look up M&R Electronics or search OEM replacement car stereo.They might be able to help and might take your stereo as a core (I don't really know-I have found them many times).

http://mnrelectronics.com/

[Eminence1963]

Theres plenty of Jeeps *devil*in the junkyard*grin*
They could fill the bill for another like deck*yes*

[stereorob]

Theres plenty of Jeeps *devil*in the junkyard*grin*
They could fill the bill for another like deck*yes*

aint that the truth! ive been out to u-pull a few times for parts for the jeep, there is about 5 rows back ten across. (probubly most from the cash for clunkers program), in all diffrent colors models trims etc, but not too many in 1996 had the factory cd player, most of them were just cassette.

[Warped Bezel]

Cash for Clunkers cars were completely destroyed. No parts could legally be resold once the government claimed them so they were converted to recycled metals etc. This was an effort to get NEW cars sold, remember.

Plymouth Valiant/Duster and Dodge Dart variants were very plentiful at junkyards here in the early nineties when I had my Duster.

If the radios were of value to the yard they would be pulled to prevent weather damage (especially if they were OPEN). Many, if not most would be stock Mopar, maybe saying Jeep instead. Since some of the very first things harvested would be WINDOWS weather would definitely affect the quality of the radio.

In Oregon and Idaho many laws prohibit customers removing the part directly so they are "closed" yards that allow only EMPLOYEES to work on the bodies.

[Skywavebe]

Hi Stereorob,
As a Jeep owner since 1978 and a car stereo service technician in the past, the things that go wrong with any CD player in any environment are a number of things. First, CD dust removers are worthless and will not resolve the problem. The parts in the CD player that need attention are the sled motor and or worm gear if that is what is used. The lens could use a cleaning I am sure but with Windex not an alcohol. The other things that are effecting this unit are lack of oil on slide rails, possible motor dead spots on the sled motor and as in many Sony decks I repaired by the hundreds were broken solder joints. The wave soldering is hardly good enough for the home stereo but combine that with large temperature variations in a car and the vibration shock associated with a vehicle the boards do not have a chance. The broken solder joints I have found would manifest themselves in all kinds of symptoms from tracking, focus and mainly audio channel that were out as well as those that had loading mechanisms. The worn gear system if that is what is used as in about 70% of units need to be cleaned with alcohol and the item regreased. This won't do any good if the problem is also a sled motor with a dead spot-that will need to be resolved first. All you can try and do is treat it with Deoxit. Then run the motor with an small DC supply and test for dead spots. Sometimes this fixed the motor but if not then a new motor will be required. Try to find a new one. I have fixed my own CD players when required as well as replaced heads in auto reverse cassette decks in the past- it all can be done but takes a lot of trouble and some skill. Some may not want to go this route and I would send them to Crutchfield.com for a replacement unit. Probably will not find a cassette but a CD with a HD radio is likely.