cd player skipping-need ideas

[73slinger]

i need some help on some ideas on what to do... a while back i bought the CCOT console with the cd player slot. I bought a sony cd player.. i think the model is a GT-210. Anyways after i get it all installed.. hooked up... sounded good in the drive way. Once i took it out it would skip on almost every bump down the road... any ideas as to how i can help cushion the console? or better pad the cd player? something so it doesn't constantly sound like a remix while driving down the road....

thanks guys!

-chris "what the hell is happening to my rock n roll??" lopez

 

[TLCHopII]

Here is a couple recommendations:
1) ensure that the head unit rear strap is firmly a fixed and of sufficient strength to not yield under the stress of wheeling.
2) If any portion of the installation relies on plastic for mounting then replace it with metal
3) may seem stupid but make sure the console and whatever the console mounts to is rigid and unyielding.
4) Verify the power is constant. {had one awhile back that was momentarily loosing power. The pre-read buffer function didn't allow it to loose program but the "skip" became progressively worse! Until the problem finally came to light.
5) if this is the CCOT "Tuffy" typr box, then your head unit is mounted, more or less vertically. Not all players are rated for this installation. Verify yours is. If not, then replace it with one that is. While your at it get one that is rated for 4x4 or marine duty. This will ensure that the cd and read head(s) remain in close tolerance while jostling around the trail.

Best of luck

 

[apeterson]

get a cd player that uses USB drive......... it will never skip

 

[nspctr1]

5) if this is the CCOT "Tuffy" typr box, then your head unit is mounted, more or less vertically. Not all players are rated for this installation. Verify yours is. If not, then replace it with one that is. While your at it get one that is rated for 4x4 or marine duty. This will ensure that the cd and read head(s) remain in close tolerance while jostling around the trail.


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[JJS]

5) if this is the CCOT "Tuffy" typr box, then your head unit is mounted, more or less vertically. Not all players are rated for this installation. Verify yours is. If not, then replace it with one that is. While your at it get one that is rated for 4x4 or marine duty. This will ensure that the cd and read head(s) remain in close tolerance while jostling around the trail.


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Good point. Most older CD head units will not play in a vertical position.

 

[camcruiser13]

use the ol ipod

 

[yzftaco]

use the ol ipod

LOL you beat me to it....

I-Pod X-2

 

[mminter1973]

I didnt know they still made CD's!!

 

[rusty_tlc]

IPod or other solid state media.

 

[swimbrad]

x10 ipod

 

[CruisinMT]

I believe it was ccot that had the in glove box mounting system that I have. I don't get skipping even when barreling down the dirt roads around my house.

 

[fireflyr]

CD player??? I'd just be happy with an AM radio.

 

[pc4400]

1. ipod or any other flash memory based media player

2. CD player mounted vertically (Sony's used to have larger beffer memory to combat skipping)

Im currently using a little mp3 player connected to an amp, works pretty well.

 

[cardinal fang]

Forget the ipod, get a stereo that will accept a SD card and never worry about skipping, or ipod wires hanging all over the place. Wallmart sells a couple stereos that accept SD cards. BTW, if you havent heard, CDs are dead;p

 

[Splash]

8 track. Your rig probably had on in the 70s.

 

[psreno]

pcconnection.com has the microSD card, 2Gb (100's of songs and more) for $19 with mini and regular SD adapters. Kragen has a $89 stereo that uses CD/microSD/USB/jack-in - and AM/FM with detach face. My Sprint phone takes the microSD card too, so does my pop's GPS, and my camera, and the laptops now usually have the SD slot to easily xfer files.

Just don't jam two micro's down the same slot as my old feller did when he first got his GPS.

 

[bsevans]

ipod wires hanging all over the place.

Gee, my hookup uses one cable between the deck and the ipod. You must have been using one of those 8 track ipods.

 

[pc4400]

Gee, my hookup uses one cable between the deck and the ipod. You must have been using one of those 8 track ipods.

 

[psreno]

hehe, that would be the jack-in, or just plug straight into the USB and it will charge the ipod as well as play it.

 

[Pighead]

BTW, if you havent heard, CDs are dead;p

Dang! I haven't even got all the buttons figgered out on my dash unit. And I used to think having a 12 disc changer in the console was cool. I'm gonna take that part out of the vehicle description in my sigline. Mr Manny keeps threatening to give me an old, cast-off music thingie, one of those A-1 players or something like that. I'm secretly afraid that I won't know how to work it.