I purchased a sterio head unit for my mom's `95 Legacy last week which came out of a brand new WRX. The plugs fit and everything worked great. Radio and weather bands come in perfect. However when inserting a CD, the CD just spins for about 11 seconds and then ejects with no attempt to play music. This is a regular store bought CD. Someone made mention once that swapping a sterio from one car to another causes the sterios to need to be 'unlocked' by entering a code. Is this true?? Or is the Cd player just going bad in this??
Subaru Sterio/CD 'Locking'?
Oct 07, 2006
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Did you try using different CDs? Really sounds like it just doesn't like that CD to me.
Did you try using different CDs? Really sounds like it just doesn't like that CD to me.
Yup, tried 15 different CD's, they all were ejected after 11-12 seconds in the player without actually playing.
They were store bought CDs, not CD-R/RWs right? Some CD players don't like those.
The other possibility is that while the plugs match, the wires may not... you might have to track down the wiring diagrams and compare the two. I would guess that they should be the same if the plugs are the same... but you never know.
And the remaining possibility is that you just got a bad CD player... if you bought it used off of eBay, that may have been the reason why someone was trying to get rid of it in the first place... eBay is known for that kind of stuff.
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