Expert: Ernesto R - 7/23/2009

Question
Good morning. The CD player on my 2003 VW Jetta is displaying the following message: CDP ERROR 1. [It is a single CD/radio/cassette unit in the dash.]
While the car has 88k miles on it, I have only recently been using the CD player a lot - on average 3 hours a day for the last 2-3 months. I've been having issues the last couple of weeks... Initially I would get the message once in a while, on some tracks of a CD, but not all, and sometimes could get through an entire CD or two with no message. At first I thought it was damaged/scratched CDs. But I fear it is the unit. Now all I get is the message. What does that error message mean? Is there any hope?
I spoke with the VW dealer, and they said that they cannot replace radios. They have to remove them and send them back to the manufacturer for repair, for +/- $350. I'm just listening to audio books - don't need anything fancy!
Thanks for your help!

Answer
hi
your cd player is damage and needs to  be replace or repair that error is because the laser can not focus on the cd information ,this happends with low quality disc or ,cdr,cdrw  copy discs damage radios

your options

buy a rebuild Volkswagen jetta radio from oemautosound.com they are $240.00 and come with warranty

or buy a auxiliary audio interface for Volkswagen ,copy all your music audio books into a mp3 or your phone pda and listen using the factory Volkswagen radio that you have now

http://www.oemautosound.com/pc-341-176-pie-vw02-aux-volkswagen-2002-2006-auxilia...

or this interface will let you use the ipod in your vehicle

http://www.oemautosound.com/pc-243-176-usa-spec-pa11-vw6-volkswagen2006-2007-to-...