Special Edition Stereo, Few Questions: Options

[m0dd3d1]

Hey all I just recently hit up the junk yard for some misc. parts for my Celica and I found a Special Edition that had an immaculate interior! So besides buying the "CELICA" embroidered seats and misc. trunk parts, I bought the radio/tape deck/cd player combo as well for $50. Now, I hooked up the radio and (as it should) it connected perfectly into my dash but the CD player is having an issue taking the discs. It only pulls the disc in about half way. Is that something I can fix or not? And if anyone knows it, would I be able to buy just the bottom half to the radio (the cd player; it looks as if it's 2 parts just bolted together) at Toyota or something? And in that case I'd probably have to buy it stateside and get it shipped b/c UK and US CD players are different...I think...or is that just VHS & DVD? I can't remember. Thanks for your time!

Triscuit

[applejax]

If the aforementioned grease doesn't work, I don't know if it's worth your time fiddling with it.

The two pieces are seperate, connected by a bracket and a DIN cable. You should be able to order just the CD player, and I don't see any reason why a US CD player would be different than a UK CD player.

If you are looking at replacing the CD player, however, you may simply want to consider a decent aftermarket one. Toyota's prices for OEM parts are often insane. You could pop in an aftermarket player for the same or less money, and chances are that it would be a better unit.

[m0dd3d1]

If the aforementioned grease doesn't work, I don't know if it's worth your time fiddling with it.

The two pieces are seperate, connected by a bracket and a DIN cable. You should be able to order just the CD player, and I don't see any reason why a US CD player would be different than a UK CD player.

If you are looking at replacing the CD player, however, you may simply want to consider a decent aftermarket one. Toyota's prices for OEM parts are often insane. You could pop in an aftermarket player for the same or less money, and chances are that it would be a better unit.

Yeah, I hear you there. Only thing is that I want a nice double-din w/ navi eventually but I'm overseas now, so I don't know how it's going to pan out. Thanks for the info guys.

Triscuit