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Fri Sep 02, 2016 6:09 pm

Someone put a CD in my CD player in my truck and now it's stuck. I'm guessing they forced it in. It won't play or eject. I'm not a radio guy so does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the CD out?

Fri Sep 02, 2016 7:55 pm

Disconnect battery, wait a few minutes, reconnect. See if that ejects it. Unfortunately, car stereos don't have a little hole for a paper clip to be inserted to eject the CD.

If you have to, you may need to remove the stereo and take it partially apart. You can try Google to see if there's a way to eject on that stereo.

I will also say, that on my 2004 Frontier: when I bought this in 2011, there was a CD stuck in it, it would play, but not eject. That was a common malfunction with Nissan stereos of that vintage, and would've cost more to fix than me installing an aftermarket unit.

Sun Sep 04, 2016 9:04 am

my wife stuck a cd in the player befor the other cd had come out.....it took me a while but they both came out with come help. I also have a player in my truck that stoped worken.....I pulled it out to stick a cheep unit in when I sold the truck....thats when about $6.00 worth of change came out :shock: apparently somebody thought it was a slot machine, I gess I won the jackpot!!! I sure do miss somebody...but I did see "Somebody" on TV last night!!!!

Sun Sep 04, 2016 1:45 pm

mark tucker wrote: my wife stuck a cd in the player befor the other cd had come out.....it took me a while but they both came out with come help. I also have a player in my truck that stoped worken.....I pulled it out to stick a cheep unit in when I sold the truck....thats when about $6.00 worth of change came out :shock: apparently somebody thought it was a slot machine, I gess I won the jackpot!!! I sure do miss somebody...but I did see "Somebody" on TV last night!!!!

Years ago the CD player in our Mazda MPV quit while under warranty. Got a call from the service writer saying they pulled the unit and about $7 in change came out. Coins conduct electricity just fine! Our kids were like 4-6-9 at the time. The dealer got all the change out before sending it in for repair.

I was putting a CD in the 4Runner and absentmindedly slipped the CD between the unit and the dash, not into the CD slot. Our "Beatles 1" CD still sits on top of the unit inside the dash. It takes 2-3 hours to pull the unit and I have never felt the need to retrieve the CD.

Mon Sep 05, 2016 11:43 am

Sometimes you can slip a stiff piece of paper (cardstockish) under or over the CD in the slot- and it will release the "clamper" thingie that is gripping your CD. Try slipping in a piece, then push 'eject' while pulling the paper out at roughly the same speed at which the deck usually ejects. I did this too many times to count when I worked at a car stereo joint.

Sun Sep 11, 2016 3:00 pm

my wife stuck a cd in the rong slot too....then couldn't figure out why it wouldn't play.....

Sun Sep 11, 2016 7:15 pm

Seriously, smack it like the fonz. 8) it works every time.
Push eject and give it a thump.

Sun Sep 11, 2016 10:33 pm

enjoyther1de wrote: Seriously, smack it like the fonz. 8) it works every time.
Push eject and give it a thump.

Aahhh, that well-known repair called "impact remediation."

One of my favorite moments in the old Star Trek (happy 50th by the way), was seeing Kirk tapping hard on his communicator when it wouldn't tune in the ship. 300 years of technology advancement, and he still "bangs on it" to fix it! Some things never change.

Mon Sep 12, 2016 5:34 pm

With the power off, try holding the eject button down down while powering it up.

Mon Sep 12, 2016 7:30 pm

I usually just stick something in to move the cd one way or another and it ejects then, after I push the eject button

Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:09 pm

Okay, it's time this thread become a "mad lib."

Cause frankly if we didn't know the context dealt with a stuck CD- the advice can apply to far more entertaining predicaments. 8)

I'm thinking Gynecology right off the bat.

Wed Sep 14, 2016 4:49 am

hitest wrote: Okay, it's time this thread become a "mad lib."

Cause frankly if we didn't know the context dealt with a stuck CD- the advice can apply to far more entertaining predicaments. 8)

I'm thinking Gynecology right off the bat.

Either way you gotta thump em good once in a while.
OP, did you ever get that engelbert Humperdinck out of there?

Sat Sep 24, 2016 12:02 pm

Amazingly the CD did come out. After not touching it for a week or 2 out of the blue I tried hitting the eject button and it came right out. Go figure. I haven't tried putting another one in since. Maybe someday I'll have a CD that I don't care if it gets stuck in there and try it.