I have a 2002 SE with the Bose (bought sept 2001). I've been playing my CD-R's for quite some time now with NO problem. About 6 months ago I noticed a few CD-R's had problems playing, the player would just blink. No problem, I just skipped to another CD. But recently I get an 'ERR F3' message. Not only on older CD-R's (3 or more years) but brand new ones, just burned! It plays factory CD's fine. I have heard of trying different brands, but why would it play them before and not now? Any favorite brands out there? I bought some Philips CD's and they do the same thing. I was using Fuji and my TDK CD's dont work well either. Its wierd, it will play them after I take the CD in and out several times. I had an Alpine in my Integra that did the same thing. I CANT believe BOSE didn't make the unit CD-R compatible. I guess I'll just have to replace it or get it fixed. Any suggestions??

 

My first suggestion is the clean the cd player laser cleaner. Those kits are cheap

 

mine does the same thing. I just eject it and put it back in and it works fine.

 

My BOSE plays everything that I throw in.


~limsandy

 

I tried using an older (prob 3 or 4 years old) ALSOP lens cleaner. Didnt work. Anything newer or better I would try it. As much as I use it (whenever I drive and i have almost 40k miles) I would believe its dirty. Anybody else having problems?

 

I can only play CD-Rs i have burned on a computer cd writer and not my home audio writer.