CD changer wont work

[VW_Lover89]

It's been about 2 months and my CD changer does not work!
Can anybody help?

When I press the CD button on my radio dashboard it says CD 0 and Track 63 it's weird and I have no clue what happened.
Although in the past when I used to put the rack of Cd's into the changer it used to make noise like if it was going into place, but now it doesn't make noise when i insert it in.

Thank you!

[Siberia]

That's the same message mine gave me!! I just took her into VW today and was told that my CD changer is dead. Whatever they did cleared the Track 63 error, and now it is playing CD's - but only when it wants to, so it plays like 2 songs and then says "error", so it may not be completely dead, but it's certainly on the way there! They said there is nothing they can do to fix it.

[zappa26]

You can buy them on eBay pretty cheap ... and installation is a no-brainer. I sold mine on eBay a while back cause I didn't need it anymore ... it went for $45 + $20 shipping.

[VW_Lover89]

Okay, so this happened around May or June when my changer wouldn't work... So recently I overheated my car and it killed my battery... I charged it 4 weeks later from my incident, and when I turned on my radio today my CD's started playing... it was so cool, I almost spent $300 for a new changer from a dealership, now it works, how cool lol

[beej]

Why spend that much from a dealer, when you can have a used Phatnoise for a lot less than that?

[kngriffin]

Phatnoise looks totally cool! Where do you get one though? I searched for it online but they discontinued it, probably because they were bought out by Harman Kardon? And I don't see it on Harman Kardon's website.

http://www.phatnoise.com/products/di...ers/index.aspx

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archi...-phatnoise.php

[Oldsmobug]

The CD changer in my 03 Beetle sometimes pops up with an "error" message. Mostly it happens when it is cold outside or when I put the magazine in with new CDs. I attribute it to poor quality.

If I ever get a permanent fault I plan on buying a generic CD player from Best Buy and installing it in the dash with one of those adapter kits. IMHO, the changer in the trunk is a PITA.