CD skipping on old Alpine Player

[quanttrom]

Hello guys,

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I have an Alpine Head Unit that seems to suffer from a CD skipping problem. This happens with all CDs that I own, even new ones. If the car is sitting at a stop light, it won't skip and will play perfectly. When I am driving, depending on how rough the road is it will start skipping.

It skips a lot now and I don't recall it skipping at all a couple of months ago.

Is it possible that the optics inside of this old unit degraded enough that now I have issues playing CDs? Maybe the cold temperatures in Canada didn't help much.

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[Bassin Buick]

open it up and use a small amount of lube on the worm gear for the laser. Clean it with alcohol and a qtip , then apply new lube. I have found that the kind for fishing reels works great. Just a small amount at the beginning of the gear should work. and as the first cd plays all the way through it should spread the grease evenly on the worm gear.

 

[Bassin Buick]

also , if it has rubber feet on the cd section , try to refill them with grease too.

 

[quanttrom]

What kind of grease/lube would be appropriate for this ?

Lithium ? Silicon ?