Haunted CD player?
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Haunted CD player?
I just got this 212 three weeks ago with 5600 miles on it (it was an executive car) an I am having this strange issue with the CD player. I have 3 discs loaded and a couple of times when I shut the car off to run an errand when I come back and start it up it jumped to the beginning of the next disc. In addition, yesterday when it happened I didn't want to listen to that disc so I just hit the mute to shut it off. Then as I was driving the sound kept un-muting every 5 or 10 minutes and it was back to the very beginning of the CD. This happened a half dozen times until I switched to radio and mute and then the system stayed quiet Everything else seem to work fine.
Any ideas?
If it matters, this is a P2 car and the discs are DVD audio and SACD. I suppose I could try it with regular CDs.
Any ideas?
If it matters, this is a P2 car and the discs are DVD audio and SACD. I suppose I could try it with regular CDs.
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I first thought it could be a poor quality DVD media issue but if the car un-mutes randomly, then it sounds more like a SW but at the head unit. Have you asked if the dealer could update it to the latest SW?
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I haven't talked to the dealer yet but software seems like a real possibility. Especially since everything else works fine.
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So I think the switching disks is probably related to the player's ability (or lack of) to keep track of it's place on a DVD audio. The manual actually warns about this as well in cryptic language so I may have answered my own question. Won't hurt to ask about a software update thought.
