My 300TD has a fairly new Aiwa CD MP3 player. It is about 2 years old and no longer under the waranty. The FM radio sounds great, but the CD is sort of a pain, because it often just blinks ;00 instead of playing the CD, and occasionally just stops in the middle of a song and blinks the minute and seconds that the CD has been playing. Sometimes I reinsert it and it works, sometimes iit doesn't.

It just reads mp3's eternally and won't play them at all.

AIWA doesn't want to help in any serious way. They gave me the numbers of a couple of local shops. One wants $30 just to look at it, and says that it might cost $80 if it doesn't need any parts, but as much as $180 if it does. I wll have to pull the radio and reinstall it myself.

I have run a couple of cleaning disks through it, but that doesn't seem to make any real difference.

The CD's I am playing work fine on my home stereo. I have seen long q-tip things that one can use to clean the read heads, but when I ask at stereo shops all I get are odd deer in the headlight stares and an offer to sell me a new stereo.

Sure. Fat chance.

Does anyone know any stereo repair websites or know of a good book on the subject?

Thanks!

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