Miata Mailing List: December 1993, Message #99
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   From: "Alex M. Postpischil" 
Subject: Re:  Factory CD player problem
   Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 18:44:59 -0500

Rob-
	I have had a lot of problems with the factory CD player in my Miata.
The unit is the Panasonic that came with the A/B packages. I had an Alpine
AM/FM/CD player in my 79 Rx7 for the three years I owned the car. It skipped
only twice in the three years I had it (and I had some pretty ugly discs). I
did my best to push the Alpine unit to its limits. The unit skipped when I wen
through a *BIG* dip in a road at moderate speed. At a high speed the car 
bottomed out abruptly in this dip. I had gone through numerous rough roads and
over major cracks, etc without the CD player skipping (the Alpine). The Miata
CD player is quite a bit more finnicky. Sometimes it just skips for the hell of
it. My bigger beef with the Panasonic player is that it overheats after a
relatively brief period of use (>1<3 hours). The Alpine player never overheated,
even on a 17 hour straight drive (no the road wasn't straight, the drive was
non-stop). ;-) 
	I'm resolved to live with this sytem until Alpine makes a AM/FM/CD/Cass
combo for in-dash installations. I like the idea of a disc changer, but I would
want the changer in the car so I could switch disks easily on long road trips.
-alex-

Alex M. Postpischil		"albabe@wam.umd.edu"		(301) 345-1340
4911 Lackawanna Street
College Park, Maryland 20740-1665

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