Audio 10 CD Skipping

[coolpot]

Hi, i have a W203 2002 SPORTS Coupe

the CD skips when i use CD's that i have made on my pc?

Any idea why that may be?

 

[television]

Hi, i have a W203 2002 SPORTS Coupe

the CD skips when i use CD's that i have made on my pc?

Any idea why that may be?

It is because the surface of the disc is too dull, compaired with that of a normal CD. as scratches can be polished out with metal polish, maybe you could put a better shine on your home made ones, or spray the with a clear coat and polish that. If the laser gain was increased to play your disc, this would lead to other problems and a short laser life.

malcolm

 

[turnipsock]

What speed are you burning them at?

You want to use the slowest speed as the quality will be better.

 

[coolpot]

last cd i burned at 4x speed. which is the slowist option
i thinking of swapping the unit out, but it looks like a bit of a nightmare in the w203

 

[Alfie]

last cd i burned at 4x speed. which is the slowist option
i thinking of swapping the unit out, but it looks like a bit of a nightmare in the w203

Swapping the head unit on a W203 is fairly easy.

As malcolm says, try polishing the disk. Personally I never use copied disks as they are harder for the laser to read causing retrys and will increase the wear on the unit.

 

[alexspurs61]

This thread might have some useful stuff in?

http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/showthread.php?t=20417&highlight=audio

 

[gmc]

audio 10 cassete replaced with audio 10 Cd not working through car wheel

Hi, i had problems with my head unit in my clk 230K 2000 model it was a radio cassete audio 10 and had a 6 stack fibre optic cd changer in the boot.
i got a audio 10 cd on ebay and fitted it, to the car. But the steering wheel controls no longer work ? and the cd stack well the head unit only sees one cd in it, ? its a mare can anyone help me.,.??? Can it be sorted ? or do i need to bid like the wind for a radio cassette audio 10 ?
thanks
:-(

 

[bitonw]

Well the swap from an Audio 10 CC to an Audio 10 CD is plug and play. Connectors are the same as the function of the Heads...

Sound like a problem with that eBay unit...

 

[television]

Hi, i had problems with my head unit in my clk 230K 2000 model it was a radio cassete audio 10 and had a 6 stack fibre optic cd changer in the boot.
i got a audio 10 cd on ebay and fitted it, to the car. But the steering wheel controls no longer work ? and the cd stack well the head unit only sees one cd in it, ? its a mare can anyone help me.,.??? Can it be sorted ? or do i need to bid like the wind for a radio cassette audio 10 ?
thanks
:-(

Don't quote me but I think that your car has a fibre optics and is wired to the CAN BUS and the one you bought is an earlier version, Marnix knows more about this than me.

Malcolm

 

[MercAl]

If you're copy CD's are skipping, try a better quality blank CD. Cheapest is not always best. Have you tried 'Infiniti' Disks? They seem to be decent quality.
As far as I am led to believe...copy CD's should'nt do your laser any harm. If it's a decent quality blank CD, then the laser should read it no problem, although through time all copy CD's get 'laser rot'.
Are you downloading your music? Is the problem in your downloads? Could corrupted when you're downloading.
What are you using to burn the discs? Is it Nero?

 

[television]

An engineer can go into the service menu and increase the tracking gain and double check the offset and focus. even after that there is no guarantee that the home made disc will play

Malcolm

 

[geoffd]

Audio 10 and home made CDs

This subject comes up time and again. The cause might be old age of the head unit, or CD blank quality as has been suggested, but I think it's unlikely. Those whose Audio 10s will play home brewed CDRs are I think just lucky.

My Audio 10 has never played computer generated CDRs from new irrespective of the make of blank (and I tried dozens).

I asked Alpine (who made my Audio 10 (Becker make the other type)) why it didn't play CDRs and was told that it is designed that way - they didn't say so, but probably as an anti-piracy measure.

There is a solution for any Audio 10, but it's a bit messy and expensive. All Audio 10s will play CDs made using a Consumer Audio Recorder and CD Audio blanks. This process produces a CD with the right 'enabling codes' on it like a commercial CD - and the Audio 10 can't tell the difference, so plays it.

Geoff

 

[television]

This subject comes up time and again. The cause might be old age of the head unit, or CD blank quality as has been suggested, but I think it's unlikely. Those whose Audio 10s will play home brewed CDRs are I think just lucky.

My Audio 10 has never played computer generated CDRs from new irrespective of the make of blank (and I tried dozens).

I asked Alpine (who made my Audio 10 (Becker make the other type)) why it didn't play CDRs and was told that it is designed that way - they didn't say so, but probably as an anti-piracy measure.

There is a solution for any Audio 10, but it's a bit messy and expensive. All Audio 10s will play CDs made using a Consumer Audio Recorder and CD Audio blanks. This process produces a CD with the right 'enabling codes' on it like a commercial CD - and the Audio 10 can't tell the difference, so plays it.

Geoff

Sure the TOC can make a difference,this though also plagues many home systems.

malcolm

 

[rigelave]

audio 10 disk jump

I had this problem & after trying write speed,track gap , write one track at a time etc the cure & I mean FIX was to only use the followind make of disk

JVC CD-R MUSIC AUDIO 700MB/80/MIN.

they are a bit more costly but they do work, the problem appears to
be the reflective surface oc the disk.

 

[television]

, the problem appears to
be the reflective surface oc the disk.

This is what MB say, I will clear laquer on and see what happens.

malcolm