Our car is a Honda CRV, and whenever I play a CD, when I take it out the disc is burning hot. The inside of the car isn't hot, not is the dashboard or anything, just the CD.
I also don't play the CDs for very long, like I'd assume playing it hours at a time it'd over heat, but I don't. What could be doing this?
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I'm pretty sure that's normal. Of the cars we've had recently; 2 Saab's, 2 Honda's, 1 Toyota and 1 Ford, I can remember CD's coming out pretty hot in all of them.
My guess, based on the way car stereos are built, is that it's heat from the amplifier. The CD slot is usually on top of the stereo - above the amplifier. Amps can get pretty toasty, especially when there isn't good circulation (like, say... in the dashboard of a car). Naturally, that heat is going to rise and make the CD hot.
You could do an experiment to test this:
Start with cool CD in the slot and drive around with nothing playing. Then test to see if the CD is hot. If it is hot, then this theory is false and something other than the amplifier is causing the heat. If it's cool, it may be correct.
Then, with a cool CD in the slot drive around with the radio playing at your normal volume. After a while, test to see if the CD is hot. If it is hot, then you know it is the amplifier causing the heat.
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Just the heat of the car maybe or like the engine? Maybe the cd player is malfunctioning and overheating. Is the car old?
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