DennisT
I'm Awesome
My recently purchased high mileage 1996 GMC 1500 has the, "upper end," AM/FM, Cassette, CD player system. All works good except slave CD player just displayed, "err." Got one from junk yard; same result. Swapped them for a second used one. Works beautifully but won't eject. Junk yard owner told me no problem if I wanted to look into it. I've worked on more than one thing electrical/electronics, so here I go.
First, the 6 tabs to release plastic front all broke except 2. And I was exceptionally careful, seeing they were flimsy thin. Very gentle. Nope. Just like the plastic was crystallized. No strength there at all. Looking farther, I found the tiny mini switch behind the eject button was almost always open in spite of how many times one pushed the, "button," out front. There are also two bulbs in that front too...both burned out. The front eject button merely presses on a circuit board mounted mini switch, so tolerances are very tight. Replacement mini switch would/will have to have almost exact dimensions to all work together. Internally, the CD player doesn't look bad for construction. So being dead in the water at the moment, I'll either go looking to swap for another unit, again, or.......... continue looking for CD parts. Posting this primarily to say the plastic fronts of these make them almost worthless to repair. Yes, I know Crutchfield will fix me right up with modern unit, but I was 'kinda hoping for factory radio success. We'll see. Anyone else try fixing one of these? Ha......
First, the 6 tabs to release plastic front all broke except 2. And I was exceptionally careful, seeing they were flimsy thin. Very gentle. Nope. Just like the plastic was crystallized. No strength there at all. Looking farther, I found the tiny mini switch behind the eject button was almost always open in spite of how many times one pushed the, "button," out front. There are also two bulbs in that front too...both burned out. The front eject button merely presses on a circuit board mounted mini switch, so tolerances are very tight. Replacement mini switch would/will have to have almost exact dimensions to all work together. Internally, the CD player doesn't look bad for construction. So being dead in the water at the moment, I'll either go looking to swap for another unit, again, or.......... continue looking for CD parts. Posting this primarily to say the plastic fronts of these make them almost worthless to repair. Yes, I know Crutchfield will fix me right up with modern unit, but I was 'kinda hoping for factory radio success. We'll see. Anyone else try fixing one of these? Ha......