This is definitely the most annoying thing about my otherwise nice car. It's a 2000 Max SE and the damn Blose stereo won't work in the mornings when it's humid unless the AC is running. I can't drive to work with the windows open because the POS will just not read a CD. This, plus the fact these head units clearly have no memory buffer (good shock absorption but sometimes I can hit a stiff bump and it will skip immediately; i.e. no memory buffer, which even a $30 discman has these days) really instills such a hatred of Bose. Insult to injury, I can' teven replace the head unit without a bunch of extra crap so that the silly speakers' impedence will be compatible.

At least its sound quality is decent (when it works). Oh yeah, the tape doesn't work, so i can't hook up an mp3 unless I get a radio transmitter.

 

I feel u man, my bose skips out when the car is just started, and then when you change the song, its like a 5 second delay before it plays. It occcasionally skips out even when the car is warmed up. I just got it, I can't wait to see what the humidity will be like...

 

Time to go aftermarket.

 

Amen to that, and some good, but cost efficient stuff out there. Head to the Audio and Electronics forum if interested,

 

u can get another one on ebay or other web sites for about $60-100. i thnk the max's bose is made by clarion, which is not the highest quality head units.

 

Damn my Bose unit has never skipped over bumps or had the dreaded cut out problem....Sound quality is pretty good also over the base audio system.

 

you might wanna knock on wood after sayin that boondox...

 

dude.... same problem in my SUXXX (Bose) CD player, doesn't even play enough time toi consider it skipping.. If i put a burned cd in there it would almost play once.... A YEAR AGO

I gave up... though i will never add an aftermarket dash to my beautiful console... there are parts that give you an input (AUXNISS) and have a 1 gig shuffle.. never worry aboiut music again... always works cheaper than a new HU and lookst much nicer than the frankenstein addition of aftermarket parts in my otherwise beautiful DASH.


MY $0.02.

 

makes me glad I didn't get a max with bose... but for some reason my stock head unit, also made by clarion will play just about anything I put in it. I took out a dvd head unit to put the stock one back in because the dvd unit didn't like cd's

 

just turn on the heater...

 

Hey it could be worse.... You could live in Miami

I am pretty sure you could just throw your head unit away if you came down here its so damn humid

 

honestly it used to make a difference with heater on and cold air in my old MAXIMA... but this one... just friggin laughs when i put a cd in... scratches it... then says 'Err' .... no matter what, cold/hot out heat or A/c. Period.

 

every time there is a heavy rainfall, my bose head unit wont play a cd for about 30 mins.... stupid pos!

 

edit** and it hails

 

Mine just had the display die... Nissan wants $300 just to remove and see if it CAN be fixed...

 

If you pay that i will shoot you. You can get a new head unit for that much

Personally i have never had mine do that works fine since day one the only thing is the volume know sometimes i have to push it down so i can adjust the volume that way, but hey for a car i hae had since day 1 and now has 90k im pretty happy.

 

Have you run a CD lens cleaner through it? I put a Bose from a 02 Pathfinder in my Max and it skipped whenever I played burned discs until I cleaned the lens.

 

when mine does that i take the CD out and rub it on my shirt then put it back in. it has only done this to me once but that was my solution

 

I've not tried that. I've tried a bit of compressed air, but not a lens cleaner...that is probably a good idea, actually. Maybe I can replace the brush with steel wool and put this damn thing in its grave