98 LSC

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Hello. Recently acquired a 98 LSC. Might pop in here and ask questions that your FAQ already covers, heh.

It's in pretty good shape. A couple of things don't work, like mirror turn signals, but so far seems pretty good. Its been raining too much in the pacific northwest, so I have not had many opportunities to drive it
 
Thank you for the welcome. I still need to see how it looks under the car

Hmm, ok. The puddle lights appear to work at least
 
The puddle lights are incandescent so you can get a replacement bulb or even LED now probably, i switch my Ford Flex to an LED puddle light. . If you had a just few LEDs out then i say it was the individual LED bulbs. Can always test the wiring for power.
 
Does anyone recall having issues with the 10 disc player not playing some burned CDs? It seems like it tries, then skips the cd. Over a long time it seems to eventually recognize and play it.
 
Ok thanks for the sanity check. Maybe I should burn each cd twice and try my odds at having a '5 disc' player :)
 
Driller's opinion matches my own. :)

These changers are unreliable for a couple reasons. But to your question specifically: Although the "CD Burner" existed as far back as ~1990, they weren't particularly common (read: affordable) until the late 90s The changers in our cars were definitely not designed with this technology in mind.

Thinking back, I did have some success with burned audio CDs but like you, it was very intermittent. I quickly learned that if I wanted it to play reliably, I'd have to go with the real thing.
 
The stock single CD player for the MN12 seems to have the same issue, but just spits it out. A few more attempts and it starts to work, it's probably the same issue. Its a faint memory, but when I was younger it seemed a variety of CD players wouldn't play MP3 burns. So I'm surprised it works at all. Maybe one day I will try to burn one with the first track of a different file. A ten second .WAV or something, I don't think its cut and dry as to what .'file' official CDs use but there are few artists that can make a solid back-to-back album
 
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