webbo1981

Hi

I am new to this forum so hopefully I have posted in the right place

First of all I have to be honest in that I had a crazy moment the other morning and decided to push my CD, when not needed, into my Sony Head Unit, I had pressed load but when was ready I pushed the cd in rather than letting the head unit take it the natural way. After approx 30 seconds of struggling my head unit took the CD and came up with 'drive fault'

I am thinking of taking the head unit out and perhaps taking it apart to remove the cd?

Would this be a bad thing? Any suggestions and/or help would be appreciated

Webbo

chris cdti

You can remove the front from the radio once its out of the dash. There is 4 torxs that are on the edges 2 top and 2 bottom Then flick the front over the clips around the edges and then the front will come away from the radio unit. There is a ribbon with a red connector on the end. You can carefully remove the ribbon from the face to save damaging the ribbon with the weight of the face. Then you should be able to see the CD.

webbo1981

Thanks for that will attempt tomorrow morning

chris cdti

To remove the carbon trim start at the bottom and go up and around the edges. Making sure not to break the small clips.

chris cdti

Ive also got a spare Sony set so if you want ill take pictures later on of where the screws are and what it looks like in bits.

webbo1981

Cheers mate, I bought a Bojo tool the other day and removed the trim on Wednesday, was abit of a struggle to be honest as I was concered I was going to snap something. I have slightlty distorted one of the clips but nothing that should cause any major problems

webbo1981

That would be great thanks for that. Glad I have registered for this forum now!

chris cdti

Right, i dug the spare radio out and took some pictures. The CD is held in quite well into the CD drive

The first picture Shows the location of the face (TOP) torx screws T8



This picture shows the location of the bottom ones. One may be under some tape T8 again.



Once the four T8's are out start at the bottom to unclip it from the mounting frame.




When its half undone it will be like this.





This would be ideal time to unclip the red connector on the back of the face of the radio. As you can see in the picture it has little wings on to keep it in place



Then you can unclip the face off the top clips like a hinge. Then you can see the mounting face that holds the radio into the dash (This can be changed so you can convert a Focus radio like the one here into a Fiesta ST square face radio. I have done this with my old radio so the Fiesta now had DAB).
Now this plate has numbers on it. Number 6 is needs to be removed so you can remove the lid from the radio



Once that and the lid is removed you can see where the CD drive lives.



This sits on 4 dowels and lifts up. There is another ribbon on the left side that connects the CD drive to the circuit board below.

Now the problem is the CD in this radio is stuck in the drive as there is two arms that will not move out of the way. You can see them to the left of each of the plastic roller pins.



Ive had a good fiddle with the arms that i can see and they will not lower down
Even when you move the gears on the side of the CD drive.

Now you can have a fiddle with yours and see if you can get it to move or try and find a faulty one with a bad display and swap the CD drives.