Originally Posted by UoD

Well --- ERROR 3 just means that the changer is jammed. Surprisingly, these head units are very easy to get inside of. If you remove the top two screws on each side, you can remove the top plate. Here are some pics :


THE YELLOW ARROWS SHOW THE LOCATIONS OF THE SCREWS THAT NEED TO BE REMOVED. THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE UNIT. (The screws were already removed in this picture).


GIVE THE BACK OF THE TOP PLATE A LITTLE TUG AND IT WILL UNLATCH. PULL UP AND THEN TOWARDS THE BACK OF THE UNIT.

Ok --- So, in my case there were actually two things causing the ERROR3. The first was the fact that the previous owner left two jammed CDs inside of the thing. One disc was in slot 3 and the other disc was jammed in between slots 2 and 1. This in turn cause the second problem --- the laser that moves between the discs also got jammed when trying to get around the jammed disc.

Removing the jammed disc wasn't too bad. I brought the unit back out to the car and plugged it in with the cover off. I held down the eject button while pushing on the jammed disc and it managed to jump back into place and eject without a problem. Once the disc was ejected, I was able to move the laser back into place. Its hard to illustrate this with a picture... but I will do my best.


THE YELLOW ARROW IS POINTING TO THE LOCATION OF THE LASER ARM. THIS WILL SOMETIMES GET STUCK WHEN TRYING TO RETURN TO ITS DOCKING POINT. WITH THE UNIT TURNED ON, I APPLIED PRESSURE TO THE LASER IN A DOWNWARD MOTION AND THIS ALLOWED IT TO JUMP BACK INTO PLACE.

So --- unit is working now.

Originally Posted by EvanSun

So... Uod, I know this is a really old thread, but I just purchased a similarly aged 2006 T4R with the same jammed CD player problem. Any chance of reposting the pics for me? Links to them are no longer any good. FSU ditched them.. Thanks!