macfish... did u find an answer to the problem?

 

No need to send anything...

http://blogs.sun.com/miko/entry/cd_changer_repair

 

thanks so much me61
will do this week or next and report back how it goes. thanks again for the response

 

I did the repair - before finding this posting - Miko describes the reapir to last detail. Unfortunately for me, the mechanical problem being fixed, I am no faced with the "No Changer"message.
Anybody any suggestions?

Thanke you!

 

I own a 2002 ML 320 and after parking and driving out, I noticed the CD changer stopped working. So I came home and found this forum.
After trying to pull the CD changer out, I accidentally smacked the CD changed with my knee... Once that happened, a whirling sound happened and the cartridge popped right out! I put it back in and tried to listen to the CDs and it worked! I went back, opened it and tried ejecting the cartridge and it seems everything worked....

So I'd suggest (if you want) to give it a good smack on the side and see if it allows it to pop up.

 

I had a similar problem on my 2000 S500. This post is only in regards to the inability to eject the magazine. My system is a ten disk changer so this may not apply.

I too had a lot of "CD's" that I had burned and frequently I could not get the magazine to eject (other than through dogged persistence). Eventually I started taking a very close look at what was happening. I found that tolerances in the CD changer were so close that the sticky labels that I had on my CD's (Full CD size inkjet printed label) were getting hung up in the changer. I stopped using the labels (just wrote on the CD's with a sharpie) and never again had a magazine ejection problem

Hope that helps.

 

They prove it every time you call them don't they "Dealers are stealers". You don't need to spend even a single penny to fix this problem. Its probably a CD that has got stuck in the changer for one of the many reasons. Like one post suggested, just give your CD changer a good smack or two and it will start working again. It worked for me!!!

 

Well, after posting about the same problem, I then went and searched the board... A combo of 'tough love' and activating the release switch with a thin piece of sturdy plastic while pushing the eject button gave me what I wanted: The cassette from my CLK500. After I remove the burned disk (which come to find the changer does not like the flavor of) I'll try it again! Thank you all!!

 

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