# Alpine headunit is acting crazy.
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alpine-headunit-is-acting-crazy/9287
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [March 14, 2006, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alpine-headunit-is-acting-crazy/9287 "2006-03-14T09:43:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Beckington](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mr_Beckington)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alpine-headunit-is-acting-crazy/9287/1 "2006-03-14T09:43:59Z")
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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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 9:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alpine-headunit-is-acting-crazy/9287/2 "2006-03-14T09:49:41Z")
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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### Author:  [@Mr\_Beckington](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mr_Beckington)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alpine-headunit-is-acting-crazy/9287/3 "2006-03-14T09:52:01Z")
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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### Author:  [@MaximaSE98](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MaximaSE98)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alpine-headunit-is-acting-crazy/9287/4 "2006-03-14T09:52:52Z")
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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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alpine-headunit-is-acting-crazy/9287/5 "2006-03-14T09:57:52Z")
Word, if it isnt a connection issue, it might be jacked… ☹
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### Author:  [@AKA-FERRARI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AKA-FERRARI)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alpine-headunit-is-acting-crazy/9287/6 "2006-03-14T10:47:52Z")
its fucked, take it to hi-fi hostpital…
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### Author:  [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alpine-headunit-is-acting-crazy/9287/7 "2006-03-14T11:18:06Z")
try re-setting it.
o and :lol: at newmans new sig…i liked the “Lotoasubada” better though
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### Author:  [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/alpine-headunit-is-acting-crazy/9287/8 "2006-03-14T17:45:36Z")
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.