Hey everyone,

I own a 2004 Forester XT. I just noticed that while I was driving from CT to Minnesota this last week, that after about 5-6 songs on a CD the CD player would shut off and make these horrible fart-like noises out the speakers. To troubleshoot, I played another CD, this time it made it through about maybe a song. When I took out the CD the thing was HOT!. I mean more than the usual heat generated by using the CD player. My heat was on about level two running through the defrost vents. So I figured because the CD player was overheating, that it was shutting down. But I have never seen my WRX's cd player do this ever! No matter how long or high I run with the heat on. I would run the forester's thermal selector on medium cold (to the left of 75 degrees), and the CD player would seem to work fine. But I had to run it through the dash vents only, if I ran combo floor and dash or defrost and floor it would still overheat. Has anyone run into a problem with this? If so respond please. I am planning on taking this in as a warranty claim if it doesn't get better, but I am worried how long it will take to reproduce the problem when I take it in. This doesn't seem like something that should happen to a new car and CD player in this day and age.

Thanks,

Andy

Nope, never heard of this myself, it's an odd one. If you haven't yet, I'd suggest copying and pasting this post over on subaruforester.com. That's pretty much all Forester people (though a much smaller crowd); someone there might have more thoughts or experience on this.

Sure sounds strange to me. I have no clue for you. You must still be under warranty so might as well have Subaru pick up the tab & install you a new one.

Chuck

last june my wife and i drove from ma to oakland ca with only 1 over nite stop . had the cd on 85%of the time nothing like that happened. we ran into snow and 26% weather crossing the rockies so yes the heat was on the defrosters.

I've heard this"farting" noise come out of my stereo once and I can't remember the exact circumstances, but it it sounded like it was caused by radio interference of some sort. It started as a rhythmic clicking and became more distorted and faster in frequency as it progressed. It hasn't happened again and I remember this happening in another car with a R.F. modulator set up, which connects an aftermarket changer with a stock head unit without hard wiring. With this set-up, it happened all the time.

It may possibly be caused by the use of C.D.-R or the like. I'm not stating that this sound is related to the "radio" in your car but "other " radio frequency devices.