I noticed that the stock CD player leaves slight, but visible scratches on pristine, freshly opened CDs after just one play.
The scratches tend to be radial, which leads me to believe they might be caused by grit that's accumulating in the loading slot. I had a hunch that this has been happening for a while now, but could never be 100% until I deliberately opened a sealed CD yesterday, carefully inspected it before loading and examined it again after play. It came out with scratches.
This confirms my hunch that this has been happening ever since we bought the car (new) in 2017. Very frustrating, especially considering that after going back to vinyl, being able to play CDs in the car has been pretty much my only justification for buying CDs in the first place these days.
Does anyone have similar/different experiences or knows of a solution, i.e. an effective way of cleaning the loading slot? Or is the better solution to burn CDs just for use in the car? I would hate that option because I don't even own a CD-burning device anymore, and I don't really have the time I used to have back in the '90s to copy liner notes etc.
The scratches tend to be radial, which leads me to believe they might be caused by grit that's accumulating in the loading slot. I had a hunch that this has been happening for a while now, but could never be 100% until I deliberately opened a sealed CD yesterday, carefully inspected it before loading and examined it again after play. It came out with scratches.
This confirms my hunch that this has been happening ever since we bought the car (new) in 2017. Very frustrating, especially considering that after going back to vinyl, being able to play CDs in the car has been pretty much my only justification for buying CDs in the first place these days.
Does anyone have similar/different experiences or knows of a solution, i.e. an effective way of cleaning the loading slot? Or is the better solution to burn CDs just for use in the car? I would hate that option because I don't even own a CD-burning device anymore, and I don't really have the time I used to have back in the '90s to copy liner notes etc.