CD Cartridge Stuck?

[phtmb]

Factory motorola/ford cd cartridge will not eject. Pushing ejector orange button, I can hear the wining noise it makes but the cartridge will not pop out. Pushing down on cartridge does not reseat it because when then attempting to play CD, player reads "no cd". Anyone know of a way to remove cartridge manually? Thanks to all

 

[cobrajeff]

Sometimes a stuck cartridge can be manually ejected by sliding a thin steel rule from left to right under the magazine. Try this GENTLY, several times, without FORCING. Look for coins, debris in the Changer, or two discs stuck in one magazine slot.

The slots in the magazine are a little delicate - if anyone ever tried to stick two discs in one slot, the magazine may have to be replaced. Factory installed CD Changers for Explorer/Mountaineer are made for Ford by Clarion.

Good Luck!

cobrajeff

 

[95ExplorerLtd]

Motorola? I thought the factory system was JBL. Anyway, we had the same problem, a nickel had gotten down underneath the changer and the floor of it. Theres alot of moving parts in there that things can get stuck in. My dad had to take the console and everything out, take the changer apart, and get the nickel out, then put it all back together.

 

[Exploder99]

Motorola? huh? ford changers are clarions. besides dont they use alpine, sony and clarion? oh yeah of course the obvious JBL. isnt there a reset button? every changer ive seen/own(ed) had one.

 

[cobrajeff]

Motorola has made cellular phones for us. They have never supplied any CD Changers. The factory installed changers in Mountaineer/Explorers are supplied by Clarion. Ford has not used any Sony CD changers since 1998. Sony pretty much stayed with the 10 CD models, which are larger than 6 CD models. The 10 CD models are too large to package up front within driver's reach, in the console or glovebox area.

Alpine makes our CD Changers for Lincolns, and for Expedition/Navigator. They do the Expedition one because the two vehicles are built in the same assy plant, and they don't want two different suppliers providing the same part.

A limited number of our Changers (Escort, Cougar, some F-Series trucks), are provided by "FMS" an OEM electronics manufacturing firm in South East Asia. FMS started as an electronics JV (Ford/Mazda/Sanyo) to improve Ford's presence in Asia.

Competition seems to drive the price down. The good news is, you can now buy a factory-installed, hard-wired radio controlled CD Changer for around $350 retail. The bad news is, with different suppliers, and even design changes within a supplier to constantly reduce size, weight, and cost - almost none of the magazines are interchangeable.

cobrajeff

 

[Alec]

There have been a couple of times that my CD cartridge doesn't want to come out. Usually it's because something in the computer is spazzing. Letting the truck sit for a while (off) or resetting the computer usually fixes the problem. Just some electric gremlins....