CD Changer.........

[BenzedUP]

My MB CD chnager is stuck on the 32, not coming out.

any suggestions on how to get the cartridge out please?


Thanks

 

[gromet]

This happened to me a while ago with a kenwood cd changer, a bit different I know, I had to resort to some surgery and remove the changer and remove the metal casing around it which will then enabled me to push the disc back into the magazine and remove it from the changer.

 

[Marku]

Happened to me and I could not figure out any way to get the cartridge out. Ended up dismantling the unit which led to the phone, COMAND and sat nav ceasing. Had to have a new changer in the end. Fortunately MB very kindly paid for it.

 

[Piirimyyjä]

When I bought my CL the cartridge was stuck in the stacker, and I found this cure on the net:

While holding the button down, tap the cartridge smartly with something wooden - I used a chisel handle. Noone was more suprised than me when it worked.

Your responsibility, of course. When it screwed up again, I sent the whole unit to a firm advertising on eBay, who fixed it for a flat fee of £75. They sent it back with the discs that had been in the cartridge with a note to say DON'T use copy CDR's made on a PC. It cost me good money to replace the copies with legit ones, but didn't go wrong again.

IT WORKS!!!! SOLVED, INDEED :bannana:

I mean that tapping thing ("tap the cartridge smartly with something wooden - I used a chisel handle.") really worked. I did NOT believe it would work, really. So there I was, anyway, hitting/tapping the glove-box-mounted CD changer cartridge with a wooden chisel handle. And voilà, the stuck cartridge came out just like that.

My steps:
- first I took the fuse out, and put it immediately back again. This resets the CD changer, before that fuse trick the CD player´s display just said something like "no CD changer" or something, and the eject-button was not even trying to eject the cartridge. So the fuse trick is needed if your eject-button is not working.
- if I remember correctly (I did this the day before yesterday) the fuse was number 64, a 10A fuse. That fuse should be the one for RADIO, COMMAND system (?).
- the fuse box was the one located in the engine compartment (W203 C-model station wagon). In that fuse box the #64 10A fuse was located in the far corner that is the nearest to the driver, actually.
- then I turned the starter key to the first position, put the radio ON, selected CD, pushed the eject-button on the changer in the glove box... nothing happened.
- but I was ready with the wooden chisel handle and I tapped/hit the CD changer´s cartridge acouple of times when the eject-button was pressed ---> tadaa: the cartridge came out just like in the movies.

To say I was surprised is an understatement, heh.