CD Changer in 996TT

[Jappo]

Anyone had "Load Magazine" come up when the magazine is loaded into the changer? Seems to go through a little dance checking each CD slot but the console thinks there isn't one in there, even though there is. It did work a couple of days ago but only picked up 2 of the 6 CDs that were loaded - and yes, I did put them all in the right way up.

[MaKSiNG]

Were any of them 'back-ups' on CDRs? They sometimes make a song and dance about these.

[Jappo]

MaKSiNG said:

Were any of them 'back-ups' on CDRs? They sometimes make a song and dance about these.

Yeah, but one of them was read first time araound. Now it doesn't even detect that the magazine is loaded.

[pope]

In my experience, the 'load magazine' message and intermittantly recognised CD's are an internal fault with the CDC unit, a new one is the only remedy.....

[Jappo]

pope said:

In my experience, the 'load magazine' message and intermittantly recognised CD's are an internal fault with the CDC unit, a new one is the only remedy.....

Ouch - expensive? Probably not a Warranty item either. Hmmm, this 996TT is starting to hurt like a TVR!

[Wetwipe]

Jappo said:

pope said:

In my experience, the 'load magazine' message and intermittantly recognised CD's are an internal fault with the CDC unit, a new one is the only remedy.....

Ouch - expensive? Probably not a Warranty item either. Hmmm, this 996TT is starting to hurt like a TVR!

but iirc the changer is a becker unit and a replacement can simply be plugged in

[sjr-997]

its an easy job to swap out a CD changer. takes about 30mins. no tools required other than a philips screwdriver and a flat screwdriver for the clips. if you need a replacement CDC-4 then come up on ebay a lot.

[hussar10a]

Yep - mine does exactly the same thing ! My solution was to fit a PSE and listen to that instead !

[superlightr]

hussar10a said:

Yep - mine does exactly the same thing ! My solution was to fit a PSE and listen to that instead !

Aloha Brighton Bloke -

Whats a PSE?

[hussar10a]

'Allo matey ! Porsche Sports Exhaust (don't think they do them for turbos now I come to think of it)

Edited by hussar10a on Tuesday 3rd April 10:08

[Jappo]

sjr-997 said:

if you need a replacement CDC-4 then come up on ebay a lot.

Typed in CDC-4 on eBay and got no hits. Do you know specifically what it is that I will be looking for - believe it's a Becker unit?

[freedman]

www.caraudiodiscount.com/acatalog/porsche_cd_changers.html

Might help