Picked up my new TSX yesterday and as I'm getting to drive off the lot, my salesman notices I have two homemade CDs. He says not to use them as there has been a lot of trouble with sticking CDs and it will not be covered under warranty if it screws up. Any comments? Anyone playing their homemade CDs. Mine are not the RW.
Thanks in advance.

 

Hey John! Congrats on getting a TSX!

Which dealer told you this? I bought mine in coquitlam and they mentioned nothing of the sort. They did tell me though, when switching discs or loading new ones, not to press any buttons on the controls until the cd player has finished it's business, otherwise it may jam. Kind of a crappy design I think, but anyhow.. point is, I have been using pretty much only CDR's in my TSX, and I have never had a problem.... I have had the car for about 6 months now. Enjoy your new car bud!

 

Thanks, got the car from Lougheed Acura. I've only spent a few minutes looking in the owners manual, but I seem to remember something about CDR and CDRW in there. I'll have another look.

 

I think you'll be fine using home burned CDs. The problem resides with the stick-on CD labels. The changer has been known to jam if the lables detach from the CDs. I just burned an extra copy of my CDs and labeled them with a permanent marker directly on the plastic. As long as your CDs don't have stick-on labels you'll be fine.

 

Most appreciated you guys, I knew I'd get some good answers here.

 

Agreed. Stick on labels are "teh devil" with slot loading players.

That's why I now use the underground secret labelling....Sharpie.

 

Can I play CD-RW's in the stock 6disc? I've only played CD-R's and haven't had a problem till now...1600 miles.

 

Never tried, but 99.99% sure you cannot

 

I was curious one day and I'm 100% positive you cannot...at least on mine I can't.

 

Well, I'm 100% positive I can. Try a different brand. Memorex and Maxell work okay for me.

Labels are bad in general. A 52x CD-ROM spins at 10,000 rpm, which means even slight off-centre labels will unbalance the disc.

John in BC, tell your dealer to RTFM (p.136).

 

As kiteboy said. I have nothing but RW's in my changer. Just make sure to erase them (not format) and then burn them as you would a normal CD-R and you should be fine.

 

Hmmm...interesting... I'll have to burn another CDrw and try it again. I used a Memorex before and it didn't work.

 

your best bet is going with silver/platinum cd's not the blue or the green alot of them have problems with the lasers reading the cd....

 

Oddly, I have one blue Maxell in that works fine. Put 3 verbatim silvers (really probably data CDR's) in and no-go.

Hmmm.

 

I've used CD-R since I got my car with no problems, never used CD-RW so can't help there.

 

I've used these generic DigitalMedia 650MB, 4X CD-RW discs and haven't had a problem yet...

 

Just used TDK 10x CD-RW in the stock 6-disc. Works like a charm! No problems here.

 

cdr works fine on my players..and i will try to use cdrw now..hehe