So I've been driving this car for about 5 years now (still going strong) and I just happened upon a cool little feature with the stereo HU.
If the radio is off, you can press either one of the CD, FM, AM or Tape buttons turns the radio on.

I did not know that... interesting :-P

 

haha i knew that

 

learned some thing new.

 

even bmw doesnt even have that feature :o

 

your not kidding, maybe i should read my manual.

 

Stumbled on that one shortly after I bought my TL. Did you know you can eject discs w/out the key? Also if you hold the eject button it will eject all 6 discs.

 

If the radio's off or on, and you hold down the EJECT button, it will eject all of the CD's in the player at once. Without stopping.

 

damn, i keep learning new things

 

not sure when the first tip will come in handy
but good to know how to eject all CDs at once.

took me forever to eject all of them the other day.

 

Guess the day wasn't a total waste. You learned something new.

 

intresting didnt know any of that

 

Holy crap you're right! If this forum had reputation points I'd +rep you.
I had to go outside and test that one...
Hold eject til you hear a beep, and bam, all the cd's come out, and my XM (running through the Blitzsafe) stays on while that's happening.

 

lol man I can't believe it I just learned something new haha.

 

Ok, how about loading 6 cd's at a time, without having to hit the the 1,2,3,4,5,6 and load buttons everytime?

 

just keep shoving them in one at a time

 

After you put 1 cd in, it starts to play it... you have to hit load to put in another one...

 

if someone puts words in red it means that they joking/ sarcasm involved

 

i don't use my radio???

 

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The manual is great bathroom reading material.

 

hold the load button for a few seconds until it beeps...it will load all 6 cd's and you don't have to push the load button every time

 

i knew that before having the car lol....

 

my cd player cant play burned cds haha. so i guess i learned new, useless and irrelevant things

 

thats because you love ur ATLP exhaust too much! hahaha

 

I KNOW! What is that all about? I burned one yesterday, and then it wouldn't play... But, I have played CD's in it before that were burned. It says ERROR. lol

 

maybe its the cd thats the problem

 

Damn, where's my points, I beat him-

 

..just burn it at a lower speed. The older stock HU's have known issues with certain CDR brands, but if you burn it at the lowest speed, you should be ok.

 

I didn't think about that... The CD's I burned yesterday was on my sisters computer which she just got like 3 months ago. I was stealing some songs off her iTunes and I bet it was on the fastest speed. It took like 5 minutes to burn it.

Good point!

 

I'm going to trythis when I get mine out of the shop.

 

..or if you search for Burned CD issues or something along those lines, there's a thread where someone tested certain brand CDR's and listed which ones should and shouldn't work. I'm just too lazy to search..

 

Try Imation CD's, they seemed to work best for me. It's not a perfect solution though because sometimes the stereo would struggle to read those too. I no longer have the problem though because I now have the 6 disc HU. It has no problem with burned cds.

 

If you change out the stock deck for a indash, you can actually watch movies and play cds without a problem. Sounds better to. Thats the best trick out there.

 

There used to be a thread for collecting all these undocumented (then new) features for the 2G TL many years back, but has been lost due to the several server upgrade events.

I really missed that.

 

..... and drain the car battery in no time !

 

my head unit stays on after key is out and turns off a min later and security activates does anyone else have this problem it didnt always do that. can i set it not to do that??? please help . not a big deal but just wondering if it can be set..

 

i could play movies on my car for about 3 or so hours with the car off and still start it. all thx to my apexi neo telling me how much volts i have left in the battery.

i set mine up so that when take the key out and if someone wants to keep watching and i dont want them to drive off or do something stupid, i put a switch in so the radio still stays on with out the ignition on

 

I didnt say it was free. Everything comes with a cost

 

Shit, its great for pilots too



LOL

 

mine is a stock head unit that stays on after the car is off and key is out..