Greg Corcoran
SHO Member
I can't be the first to have this issue, but my search hasn't turned it up in the archives. This is a '95 MTX stock JBL system
At initial car start up, and then randomly and frequently, the CD player powers up to track 1 which cuts out the radio or the cassette, whichever is actually on. After 2 to 10 seconds it realizes nothing is there and flips back to whatever was playing. This will repeat sometimes within seconds then maybe go about a minute before repeating, then stop and act normally for maybe 20 minutes, then start the cycle all over again. It did initially this with no CD present so I got the bright idea to put in a CD. Nope - does the same thing and does not play the CD. While it "thinks" it's looking for track 1 it ignores the eject button. It will take input from the track forward reverse and show it is looking for track 2, 3, 4 or backwards to 99, 98 but otherwise nothing is happening except my blood pressure rising. I was able to extract that CD by pressing eject during one of the periods when the radio was playing. Apparently not a vibration thing as whacking on the front or side of the player makes no difference.
This may be a red herring, but the first time it did this was the very next start up after I used the cassette player in maybe a year. Our wonderful nanny state requires "hands free" cell phone use so I have a Bluetooth adapter with a mic that goes in the cassette player. I was expecting a call.
Any suggestions?
At initial car start up, and then randomly and frequently, the CD player powers up to track 1 which cuts out the radio or the cassette, whichever is actually on. After 2 to 10 seconds it realizes nothing is there and flips back to whatever was playing. This will repeat sometimes within seconds then maybe go about a minute before repeating, then stop and act normally for maybe 20 minutes, then start the cycle all over again. It did initially this with no CD present so I got the bright idea to put in a CD. Nope - does the same thing and does not play the CD. While it "thinks" it's looking for track 1 it ignores the eject button. It will take input from the track forward reverse and show it is looking for track 2, 3, 4 or backwards to 99, 98 but otherwise nothing is happening except my blood pressure rising. I was able to extract that CD by pressing eject during one of the periods when the radio was playing. Apparently not a vibration thing as whacking on the front or side of the player makes no difference.
This may be a red herring, but the first time it did this was the very next start up after I used the cassette player in maybe a year. Our wonderful nanny state requires "hands free" cell phone use so I have a Bluetooth adapter with a mic that goes in the cassette player. I was expecting a call.
Any suggestions?
