Audio Systems: 2000 Honda Civic Factory CD player repair, honda manual, rubbing alcohol

Question
My CD player in my car has recently gone haywire.

After playing normally for a short time, any CD I put in starts to make a strange fuzzy static noise on and off.

Now it's to the point where when I insert a CD, the player tries to read it (I can hear it start to spin) and then I get an E-00 message. My Honda manual says to remedy this you should make sure your CD is clean and try again. I did this and it didn't help.

Have you ever encountered this problem? Should I try to clean the player with one of those cleaning CDs? Help!!

Answer
Sara,
Try using the wet type CD lense cleaner, if that doesn't work you may need to do a manual cleaning with a Qtip dampened with rubbing alcohol. If after cleaning the lense and the unit still will not work the laser pick up may need replacing.


TOM,
T&D ELECTRONICS
tdeser@zoominternet.net