m_steig Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 I bought a 1995 ES300 a few months back. I neglected to check out the tape player and CD player before buying the car. The tape player accepts a tape, but will not play the tape or eject it. I have to dig in and try to pry it out. The CD player worked spuratically at first. I would take out the cd and put it back in and then it would work, until I turned off the car, then the process continued. Now the CD player doesn't work at all and just flashing the ERROR message. Please help with suggestions of what can be wrong and what I can do to fix it myself or take it somewhere. Thank you so much for your help!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKperformance Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 sounds like the tape player mechanism is jammed and needs repairing as well as the cd changer you might as well get new ones or buy a new stereo system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt805 Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 Have you tried cleaning either one? Before you bought it someone may have put in an extremely dirty CD which would cause it to work poorly, and eventually "tucker out" I'm just thinking, if its flashing an error message the thing cant be completely fried. What about unhooking the battery for 15 minutes and reseting the computer, and then cleaning both units? Be better than being hasty and blowing a thousand bucks on new equipment you know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeta Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 a thousand dollars on a new system? are you MAD? that'd get me a whole frickin premium 6.1 sound system in my car. what kind of system are YOU lookin at :) my system cost... let's see... $20 + $100 + $18 + $12 = $150... full setup with everything connected and running perfectly strong... i d`unno but $1000 is a LOT to spend on audio... <_< kev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKperformance Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 kev i think he meant a stock lexus system being replaced with a stock lexus system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex3486 Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 If I'm not mistaken, I believe that there are a couple different "error" codes that your CD player can give you, which I believe are overviewed in the regular Owner's Manual, so I'd check that out first. Far as the tape player goes, I have no clue. Mine acts funny sometimes too, but never will it not give me the tape. It's more like I'll try and fast forward or rewind a tape and it'll only do it to a certain point and then stop and begin playback w/o me tellin it to. Really annoying; I just stopped listening to tapes (unless I take the CD's out and forget to replace em <_< ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_steig Posted January 29, 2004 Author Share Posted January 29, 2004 Thanks for all your help from everyone. I'm going to go to the Lexus Dealership as the parts guy was pretty helpful last time I went. Hopefully he can point me in the right direction and maybe even clean it for me. Try to get as much help for free. If I dont get any help I'll try to first clean it and if that doesnt work get a quote on the repair. Thanks again, all of you gave great advice!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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