Alpine headunit is acting crazy.

NYSpeed Automotive
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Ok. I have an Alpine Headunit in my truck. It was my son’s, and before that it was Newman’s. Its a flip down reversable one. To my understanding it is about $450 MSRP.

Yesterday, I’m driving, and fiddling around with it, and some of the buttons seem un-responsive. The display then says “Disc Read Error”, and none of the buttons work. I hit eject, and the face plate goes down, but no disc comes out. And the face plate won’t go back up, unless I cut power (turn off the car) and then restart it. I finally got it to work for a second, but when i turned the volume up, the sound cut out, and it started all over again. And I got the disc out, but now, its not letting me put any cd’s in.

I believe its a CDA-983(don’t remember the last digit).

I was told it might need to be service, cleaned, and re-aligned?

Does any one know any other potential problems?

Thanks!

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hmm, odd. that never happened to me. It was a really great HU and always performed perfectly. It didn’t like a few burned discs, but other than tht it was perfect.

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Yeah, I know. It worked awesome for the longest time, but it just randomly started saying Disc Read Error, and not ejecting the discs.

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pull iot out and check all of your power connections…maybe its got that loose wire making it act all funny

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Word, if it isnt a connection issue, it might be jacked… :frowning:

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its fucked, take it to hi-fi hostpital…

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try re-setting it.

o and :lol: at newmans new sig…i liked the “Lotoasubada” better though

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Time for a good cleaning. Take it apart, break out the q-tips and rubbing alchohol. Check all the gears and such, it’s probably a lot of caked up dust, etc from use.

Worse case scenario, you may need to replace the laser head and/or a spring or plastic key on the assembly that ejects the CDs.