'05 Outback Wagon - CD player starts automatically

[Ben]

I've got an intermitent problem with my 05 outback wagon where I'll be
listening to the radio and the cd player will start playing without me
pressing any buttons, sometimes I'll even have the radio turned
completely off and the CD player will randomly start playing. Has
anyone else run into this issue? My car has 6000 miles on it and this
is driving me nuts. The dealer won't fix the problem without being
able to duplicate the issue and because its completely random it
sometimes goes weeks (3+) before it happens. Any advice on how to get
this people to fix the issue? I called SOA who is contacting the
dealer but I'm not all that confident it will do much. Additionally
the right front speaker in the door is already blown, suprising as I
never blast my music, I haven't even mentioned that issue as I'm sure
they'll claim end user abuse. This is all the more frustrating as I've
purchased two brand new cars from Subaru in a 9 month time period
(first one was stolen).

 

[Todd H.]

I've got an intermitent problem with my 05 outback wagon where I'll be
listening to the radio and the cd player will start playing without me
pressing any buttons, sometimes I'll even have the radio turned
completely off and the CD player will randomly start playing. Has
anyone else run into this issue? My car has 6000 miles on it and this
is driving me nuts. The dealer won't fix the problem without being
able to duplicate the issue and because its completely random it
sometimes goes weeks (3+) before it happens. Any advice on how to get
this people to fix the issue? I called SOA who is contacting the
dealer but I'm not all that confident it will do much. Additionally
the right front speaker in the door is already blown, suprising as I
never blast my music, I haven't even mentioned that issue as I'm sure
they'll claim end user abuse. This is all the more frustrating as I've
purchased two brand new cars from Subaru in a 9 month time period
(first one was stolen).

Can't really help ya, but if it makes you feel better, the volume
sometimes randomly changes on my 2001 radio. Not too frequent
though.

Intermittent problems are a PITA...

 

[Edward Hayes]

Every time it does it call the dealer and get it on record.

 

[jabario]

They replaced my wiper blades and weatherstripping under warranty
theyll replace the speaker

 

[Sparky Polastri]

Wild guess, the mechanizm that detects disk insertion is probably touchy or
damaged.

Take the disk out when you are not using it.

 

[Florian Feuser /FFF/]

Wild guess, the mechanizm that detects disk insertion is probably
touchy or damaged.

Take the disk out when you are not using it.

True - my CD player kicks in occasionally after going over a bump. If I
leave the disk in the player but ejected to make sure that doesn't
happen, I am sure to push it back in everytime I shift....


florian /FFF/