Help With My Stock System

[33Sedan]

Hey guys, got a annoying prob on my hands. Got the skyline with a loan which i'm paying off now. It is harsh repayments which means i pay it off quickly but don't have much money at all to spare. I got the standard head deck which has a cassette player on it and a sony 10 cd stacker in the boot. The front speakers are all ripped but has some okay kenwood speakers in the back hoocked up to a factory kenwood amp.

Now the thing is that the stacker is very moody. When i got it, the head deck told me it was searching through the cd's trying to play it, but would skip each cd as it was having trouble or something. The cd's were original not burnt. The thing is that sometimes after taking the cd's out and maybe just putting one back in and doing a technical 'blow' into the cd changer, it will play the cd no troubles. But eventually maybe after 5 mins or 2 days, while playing it will hiss and whine then come up with cd err.

This would be alright if i could listen to the radio, but this isn't possible either. I got a frequency extender with the car so i bought a jap to aus aerial adapter and a aus to jap adapter (as the freq ext was in aus aerial format). I then hooked the power from the cigg lighter to the extender. This works, but accompanied by a very very loud hiss, which makes it near unlistenable (is that a word).

Is there any insanely cheap things i can do? The thing is (I am a weird man), when i do upgrade the stereo, i want to try and keep the standard headdeck (i like the nice clean look when everything matches) and hook up like 2 amps which recieve the audio singal from the changer, so all the headdeck does is control the changer, I am not too fussed about radio, will think about how i will do that someother time. But for now can you guys think of anything it may be? I tried putting one of those cd lens cleaning cd's in but didn't do anything. Any help on the FM thing aswell? has anyone done this fm extender thing?

[Bliksem]

It sounds like the laser in the CD stacker may be on its way out and may be causing the skipping. You can try taking it to an electronic repair place where they may be able to turn up the gain on it, but in the long run it will probably fail

It's possible to keep the stock head unit and use an amplifier, you just have to find one which has speaker wire inputs (can't remember the technical name) Alternatly you could purchase a Namamichi h/u which will provide crystal clear sound (possibly the best you can get, but im bias ) which looks nice and clean