Mine as well. ETA 2 weeks till the z1 install. Trying not to go nuts till then.

 

my cd gone bad .Thay said u has to reset them by load all the cd in it them disconnect the power suply to the unit for 30 sec I donot know it will work but I am going to try .let you all know latter

 

Oh man I remember when this happened to me on my Z and it still does. I took the car in for a different tsb but I mentioned this to the DUMB advisor at Torrance Nissan. He talks to me the next morning and states, "Yeah we actually had an engineer here from Nissan yesterday and he looked over your car. He said its the nitrous thats causing your cd player to skip, the stock headunit wasn't meant for that kind of acceleration." Yes I laughed in his face and told him Nissan hires some great engineers these days, I can't believe I didn't figure that out myself. He grinned back and said well the little things always seem to make cars go wrong. Now at this point I didn't know what to laugh harder from, the fact that he didn't know I was being sarcastic or the fact that he thinks nitrous makes cd players go bad.

 

Yeah, mine does that skip business too. But I found that the CD unit is actually very sensitive to the MEDIA you use. Some CD's are OK right out of the package. Others NOT!

What I found is that the various media you can buy has different characteristics that impact the laser pick up.

Best media of all is the *gold* color media from CompUSA. Yeah, I know, I hate CompLoser but that media really works better by FAR than Memorex or HP or standard silver media that your music is delivered on. So I take brand new CD's and copy them immediately. Really does help.

The other thing that does help is cleaning the unit.

I had installed a HU in my old Porsche that played MP3 disks. I really miss that because I could randomize the play and one CD with 150 songs would never feel like it was repeating anything. - I would replace the HU but I really want to keep the 'finished' look of the interior.

Tom S.