01 pathy 6-cd changer problem

spamman · Jan 29th, 2008, 08:58 AM

All: So AGAIN, as i drive my wife pathfinder I learn about more issues. It has the 6-cd changer system and apparently the cd player has not worked for quite some time. I tried to pop in a few CDs this morning and it brings the CD in OK, then tries to read it and all I get is "ERR". I tried on 3 of the 6 "bays" of the system and all the same issue.

Now is the cd player having a hard time reading the CD? Dirty optics maybe??? These are original CDs (not copies) and in good condition (very few scracthes). I also tried 2 CDs this morning.

Help?

inanima · Jan 29th, 2008, 09:10 AM

Try runnning a cleaner CD.

Only time I've had an ERR is when putting in a home-burned CD with a paper label.

dokbrown · Feb 9th, 2008, 12:20 AM

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the Bose 6 disk changers are notorious for exactly this error. Essentially there is a gear that controls changing the disks. This gear is made of plastic and has stripped. There were a couple of people on Ebay that were selling a repair for these units, but you might wind up with the same quality replacement gear. I went through this with my unit and just wound up replacing the entire unit. Check with Crutchfield or your local car stereo place and they can help you select a unit. Crutchfield even has an IR repeater that will let you keep the steering wheel controls.