Someone else mentioned this as well. At first the Disks work great and you think you solved the mystery. But than reality hits, they start skipping madly. It is like the HU is possesed or something. I am not sure if I can replace my unit because I bought it used with an extended warrenty... Email me with any suggestions. I have a Lariet 2005 F150 6-CD MP3 Audio..
brianabc123@yahoo.com


Do they sell the device that will attach to my Aux but also have a craddle that will charge an IPOD??? I doubt there is anything out there that will allow the HU to control the IPOD. Any good HU's out there that will take up the whole original HU space and still play MP3 Disks and have an 3.5mm in?? I would consider a DVD unit. Maybe the DVD unit will play MP3's from a DVD. That would be super great....

Brian

 

My first thought but surely not fact.
[QUOTE=briangal]I have had many disks skip and many not play.. I had better luck with TDK and Sony (but even they skip once in awile. Memorex would skip on certain folders.. Verbatim has not had a skip yet regards to Mp3's. I burn at 4x just to be safe. I haven't tried burning a cd on verbatim. It is funny how my $27 mp3/cd portable plays anything, but in my $37K truck I have to cross my fingers that the cd/mp3 disk won't skip while I am going over a speed bump. 4x4 my ***.. See my post befor this one for the facts.

 

When I was making CD's for the 6 disc Visteon unit in my 2005 it was not the brand of CD's that caused me issues, but that I was using one of the newer drives that could record DVD +/- R RW dual/single layer as well as record CD 's. When I used an older Sony external drive that could only record CD's and not DVD's the same brand disk would work consistantly.

I had one of the CD's recorded using the DVD/CD recorder that would not work in the Ford Visteon player. After putting in my Eclipse AVN 6600 which has dual DVD drives I stuck in this disk and it works fine in the Eclipse.

I don't know if there is a physical difference in the recorded "pits" and "bumps" between the recorder types, but this what I suspect.

Won't say for sure that this is indeed the issue or I might be jumping to a wrong conclusion like that UGA psychology student that was testing the frog. Placed the frog on a table and hollared jump. Frog would jump. Would cut off one of the frog's legs repeat the experiment. Each time until the last time the poor old frog would make a pathetic effort to jump. Could only just lay there after the fourth limb was cut off. The UGA psychology student wrote the results of his testing faithfully in his lab book then for the conclusion he wrote, "a frog with no legs is deaf".

 

I took mine to the dealership and they sent it off. Took 4 weeks to get it back. Did the same thing. Didn't matter if they were burned CD's or store bought.

Sent it back to get a new one.

Dealership won't tell you this, but I was lucky that my worker's dad is the dealer principle. Service manager told me that when they first send them in, they can't request a new one, that they have to try and get it fixed. If it doesn't work, they can then request a new one get sent to you.

That should get it fixed up. If you're warranty is expired, you can find one on ebay for about $170.

 

I get the same message with my head unit from time to time. It seams like it will do it the most if it changes from a wav format to a mp3, it will read the disk and the spit it out saying it's bad. I've found if I let it reload the disk it will play it.

As far as I know there is no fix for it. I'm plannig on replacing it with a Pioneer AVIC-D2 head unit.