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How to stop the CD player spitting out CDs after you insert them

Fix the CD player
by Robin Arnold

If your Toyota CD player is spitting out CDs here's how I fixed mine

1. Cleaned the lens with some iso-propyl alcohol on a cotton bud making sure there was absolutely no dirt/lint left on it when I'd finished.
2. Cleaned the two round wheel things that hold either side of the CD with iso-propyl alcohol and cotton buds again. Not easy to get into, but with a bit of patience and rotating the discs/wheel things you should be able to clean all round them.
3. (this is the "don't try this at home bit") Using the end of two teaspoons to support each side of the arm that grips the disc via the wheel things lower down the arm, nearer where it pivots, bend the metal arm/bracket thing so it grips the disks tighter (don't go too mad or presumably the pivot or something will break, but you should be able to exert just about enough pressure to bends the arm/bracket thing slightly in favour of gripping the disks). Sorry if this is confusing, but its near impossible the describe it clearly. I guess I could have just said "bend the metal arm/bracket thing so it grips the disks more tightly" and left you to work out how to go about doing that.

Before I did these 3 things the CD player was reluctant to accept any disks, now it seems fine. Any one or a combination of the 3 things may or may not have fixed it.

Sure the hell beats the sticking modelling film to all your CDs suggestion anyway!