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[Panther]

I seem to have an issue and I just want to determine if it is actually something to worry about. I've tried the search feature and I don't see the issue listed anywhere.

The thing I'm worried about is that when I start my car. I hear some noises coming from the CD stacker. That is followed by a long and quite loud beep and then a Japanese voice.

Anybody know what the problem could be?

 

[pu-11-me]

Maybe its telling you that you have a bad taste in music and that its refusing to play it

Does it play when this finishes?

Sounds like a welcome message to me..... Someone who can read Japanese may be able to turn it off for you if its a JDM H/U. And if they could read it i guess they would probably understand what its saying too!

 

[Guest]

does it play anything?

my stacker was farked when it came over.. would make noises, then display an error message on the deck...

...it now resides at the local tip.

 

[Panther]

Nah, the stacker is fine. I can blast Death Magnetic to my heart's desire. The weird thing is there's nothing to indicate anything is wrong besides this weird thing...

 

[naughtika]

could it be a navigation system?! telling you that you're lost?!

 

[mookers]

Record it and put the audio file up here somewhere. Maybe somebody can listen and tell you what it says?

 

[Panther]

Yeah, that's what I'm leaning towards naughtika.

Mookers I'll try to get a recording of that sound ASAP.

 

[bradc]

Yeah record it

 

[Panther]

I think I may have figured it out. Pardon my ignorance, but I'm yet to familiarise myself with all the MMCS's features, but there appears to be a drive in the glovebox. When I press the top button on it the exact same message plays, but when I press the lower button, a different message plays without the beep.

 

[snickells]

You could just bite the bullet and learn Japanese!

 

[bratwurst_boy]

record it and ask stephen, aka lasiorhinus to translate, seeing as he has made a thread in general questions offering to translate.

 

[Panther]

These noise appears to come from this little thing mounted in the glovebox.

 

[qball]

its a card reader for the japanese toll roads. I had mine next to my left knee, i just unplugged it, tucked away the wires and removed it

 

[bradc]

yeah just rip it out

 

[Guest]

Yeah lol, its from the tolls arlight when your on the road in Japan they are going of all the time.

Ching Ching we are taking you money now lol

 

[Panther]

And here am I thinking it had a much more exciting use than that...

 

[Panther]

Pulled it out today. Problem fixed. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen.