I have a 2006 Honda Civic that I just recently purchased and discovered that the CD player won't play . The radio works fine and the CD player will pull the disc in , but it won't play. Tried different discs and none of them are copies . They are all quality discs. I thought maybe there was a separate fuse for the CD player but it does pull the disc into the player , just won't play. Any ideas ? Are these units usually reasonable to repair or does this sound like something that I should just look for a used unit ? Thanks in advance.

 

when the cd is inside does it sounds like it's trying to read it?

 

Yes , It says it is reading it but then it just goes back to radio and won't play the disc.

 

sounds like the laser can't read what is on the disc... I have you tried a cd cleaner?

 

No I haven't, do you think it could be something that simple ? The people that I bought the car from lived on a dirt road and there was a lot of dust in the engine compartment so it makes sense. Thanks for the suggestion. What would be the best method ? Is it just a matter of running a cleaning disc or does the unit need cleaned with compressed air before running a cleaning disc to get any heavy dust out ? Thanks again.

 

The ideal thing would be to take it apart and brush a qtip with some rubbing alcohol on the lens but that is a little difficult since you would need to take it apart.

What I would do is get a can of compressed air and blow it in the cd tray. Once that is done get a cd cleaner and put it in. Let it run and then try to play a cd. If that doesn't work blow a little more compressed air and run the cd cleaner again.

If after all that the cd player is still unfortunately defective and would need replacing...

 

Well , the cleaning disc didn't work so I took the radio out and when I tilted it there was a sound of something moving around inside. When I took it apart I was shocked to find that the previous owners kids were using the CD slot as a piggy bank. There were 6 pennies inside along with various change that was put into every slot in the dash openings. It was raining money on to the floor when I was removing the dash pieces.. After removing the pennies from the CD player and putting everything back together again , everything works fine. I suspect that it wasn't used for a long time because her kids are now probably 9 and 13 so the unit was probably hardly used. I thought I was done learning , but I guess not.

 

Hahaha omg that has got to be the best one I have ever heard!

Glad you got it all fixed and working again!

 

This happened to me months ago. I bought a CD cleaner from the dollar store, popped it in and it went through a cycle for about 5 mins and then I could play discs after that.

 

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