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Old 09-06-2007, 10:44 PM
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Hi, I think I need an exorcist to perform a special ceremony for my JBL 6 disc radio/CD changer. I've had my TCH just over a year and haven't had any radio problems up until today.

This morning I went out and started my car. When I tried to turn on the radio by pressing the power knob, the radio display flashed and ejected a CD. Hmmm, I pressed power again, and again, it ejected another CD. Then I tried to play a CD by pressing the CD button and the display showed garbled squares of the LCD display and ejected another CD. The radio proceeded to eject the rest of my CDs one by one every time I pressed the power button. It would not let me load any CDs and no functions of the radio worked whatsoever. After I got to my destination, I turned off the car and restarted it and then my radio seemed back to normal.

Anyone else have this problem!?

And I thought I was free of electronic demons after getting rid of my BMW...
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Old 09-07-2007, 07:45 AM
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Default Re: Radio temporarily possessed!

Try pulling the fuse for the radio for a few seconds, and replace and try the radio. The fuse is #15 on the engine fuse box. I have read that others have reset their radios by pulling the fuse to fix odd radio/cd problems.

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Old 09-07-2007, 05:31 PM
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Default Re: Radio temporarily possessed!

I had the same thing happen! Exactly. After all CD's ejected, no matter what button I touched on the head unit, it powered down. I could control it from the steering wheel, (volume, etc.) but the screen was either black or complete gibberish......my service guy said it sounded to him like I "had a glitch in the system." NO SH**!
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Old 09-08-2007, 01:35 PM
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Default Re: Radio temporarily possessed!

Hi, haven't had this problem with our new TCH, but I have a 2003 (gas-hogging, nonhybrid) Highlander with a 6CD changer.

After a while, some of the frequently-used buttons started sticking in. In my case, it's AM and FM. If one of these buttons is stuck, the radio will stubbornly refuse to do anything I ask it to. The first time, it took me quite a while to figure out. The buttons on our 2007 TCH radio/CD are different from the Highlander, and I don't know whether the same thing can happen. Thought I would mention it.
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Old 11-30-2007, 08:31 PM
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Had the exact same thing happen. Dealer replaced it, no questions asked. No problems since then, but had so many other little issues with the car that the dealership replaced it with an '08.

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