QuestionI HAVE ACURA/MATSUSHITA DECK W/ CD & AM/FM TUNER I WOULD LIKE TO USE IN MY GARAGE BUT EVERY TIME I INSERT A DISC IT GIVES ME THE FOLLOWING ERROR MESSAGE C D P E O WHAT DOES THIS MEAN & CAN I CORRECT THIS HELP!!!!
AnswerFrom an Acura forum site I found a customer did this:
disassembled the radio for cleaning. cleaned up inside for dust and cat hair. cleaned optical pickup with alchol and cdpeo is gone! I can only be happier if radio control switch on cluster works.
In this Acura forum there are several customer comments:
http://tl.acurazine.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-72268.html
And from another site:
Beach Girl
08-05-05, 03:09 PM
Just bought a 96 Acura 2.5 TL and the radio won't play a CD. It gives me a error message on the LED which reads CDPEO. Help! Does anybody know what is wrong, or what I can do to get it to work.
Many thanks,
Beachgirl
VTEC02VLAD
08-05-05, 03:30 PM
Thats an occational error for some TL's and happens sometimes because of the humidity. Try playing the CD and blasting your cold AC on to reduce the humidity. Don't bother reinserting it just wait about 5 mins and it should be fine. Make sure the CD isn't burned or it may depend on how you burned it. This is a 96' CD player... not really too good with burned CD's. If the problem persists, dont bother taking it to the dealer (400$ fix) just get a nice 150$ pioneer or something. Acura stock CD players kinda suck... untill they got BOSE to make their audio stuff... now its nice
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So, I think from above comments coming from so many others with similar problems you can assume this is a CD laser tracking problem. I think it means the digital decoder is not getting a strong enough signal to feed the detector circuitry and the error rate goes too high and it breaks down. The code means (I think) CD Player Errors Out-of-range - or something like that.
Anything that causes this loss of digital signal strength can bring up the code. Such as: Dirty disk, excessive moisture or humidity, dirty optical lense over the laser diode, weak laser diode, badly adjusted pickup assembly and so on. The reason some CD-Rs don't do so well is because their surface does not, often, give back as much reflection of the laser beam.
So, try cleaning the lense on the pickup. Use a cotton q-tip and flick it over the top of the lense several times. That will dislodge the tiny, microscopic particles that may be stuck to the surface. It only takes a very small particle to cause the laser beam to go out of focus.
Other than that you may be better off buying a new cd player. If your head unit happens to have external or aux audio input you can buy single disc cd players for $9l95 and up! (At places like Walmart).
Hope this helps.
Cleggsan
PS: I suppose you have read through the car's manual in the section that tells about operation of the audio system?
