OT-stuck cd

Rkh · Aug 22, 2014

2004 monte carlo with a cd player with a cd stuck in player-any ideas beside taking dash out, removing cd player, and shipping out for a $300 fee

ThadS · Aug 22, 2014

A few things you can try:

Blow some compressed air into the CD slot. Sometimes obstructions prevent the disc ejection.

Take a Q-tip and some rubbing or denatured alcohol and clean the cd slot. Many disc drives have an optical sensor to detect a slot obstruction and it will not eject if the sensor is dirty.

If you can take the dash apart of an 04 Monte Carlo, then you can probably handle taking apart the radio and getting the disc out yourself. Sometimes all it takes is removing the top cover and lifting the disc stop manually with a small screw driver or pick tool. Then you can push the CD out.

Good luck!

Thad

Rkh · Aug 22, 2014

Thanks, tried air and alcohol, no luck.

bison · Aug 22, 2014

(quoted from post at 15:20:04 08/22/14) Thanks, tried air and alcohol, no luck.

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Tx Jim · Aug 22, 2014

Stick a thin blade under CD & push eject.

Dick2 · Aug 22, 2014

Somebody gave us some CD's once of really wierd music. I loaded them in the stereo to play and that is when the stereo refused to open the tray to remove them. Tried a lot of things but tray would not open. Stereo was still under warranty so returned it to Costco for full refund. That was a really good way to get rid of the CD's that we didn't want anyway - just left them in the stereo when we returned it.

Rkh · Aug 22, 2014

cd drops lower then case opening so using razor blade wont work.

TomH in PA · Aug 22, 2014

Look closely at the front of the player, some of them have a tiny hole you can poke a straightened paperclip in to unlock the drawer.

71ford100 · Aug 22, 2014

I had a Mustang Cobra that would do that no eject crap. If I would remove the battery cable and let everything reset hook the cable back up it would eject them just fine.

Rkh · Aug 22, 2014

No tiny hole

David G · Aug 22, 2014

My boat had a Hanna Montana CD stuck in it for about 2 years until I changed the radio. My daughter wast about 7 then.

Royse · Aug 22, 2014

(quoted from post at 22:38:48 08/22/14) My boat had a Hanna Montana CD stuck in it for about 2 years until I changed the radio. My daughter wast about 7 then.

The bad part of that deal is that it probably still played! <shudder>

T in NE · Aug 22, 2014

The one I put in my 07 chevy would do that once it warmed up. Slide a bank card, business card, something of that nature, in on top of it. Hit eject, when it pops up, pull slightly, increased traction on the rollers pulled it out.

hrRoss · Aug 22, 2014

had a guy give me a $100 bill when i was in my truck one day, didnt want to put it in my pocket or on the dash so i stuck it in the cd slot, to my surprise it sucked it right in, had to take the dash apart and the radio to get it out. thats the only thing ive ever put in the cd player

Jim in MN · Aug 23, 2014

My 2004 Silverado had the same problem. Very common to that year for GM OEM radios...do a google search. Might as well bite the bullet and pull the radio out. Chances are it will continue to happen.

Used factory radios are cheap and plentiful from the salvage yards, but they need to be reprogrammed to your vehicle's vin# to unlock. I spent more for the programming than I did for the radio when replacing mine.

David G · Aug 23, 2014

krm · Aug 23, 2014

I slipped another CD part way into my player and applied down pressure on it and the other CD came out with it.

EricInSEI · Aug 24, 2014

You should be able to go to someplace like HH Gregg and get a new CD player with installation for around $100.

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