[Grey but Game]

I just had to tear my deck apart to clean the laser. Unfortunately, I learned the hard way about some of it (had the cd pull-in mechanism timed wrong and I may have blown the motor) but after doing it I can say that it's possible you could fix it yourself if you pay very close attention to where everything goes when you take it apart.

1 - There is a special tool to pull the deck out of the dash but you can do it with a ice punch or test light probe. It's just a pain in the arse that way.

2- remove the face plate and top of the deck. Be careful removing the face, there's a ribbon connector that needs to be unplugged

3- Only 4 screws hold the drive in. Again there is a ribbon connector

4- Now with the cd slot facing you look closely at how the gearing on the right side goes together. There is a black spring steel piece that goes over a knob that comes off of one of the plastic gear actuators. I suspect this area may be the problem. Either that metal actuator is out of place or there is some gear wear. If it's gear wear I don't know where new ones could be found.

5- If you need to go into the drive then there is a small coil spring on the top that needs to removed first. In the cd slot you will see a spring loaded door that has two rubber coated prongs. Be certain to hold down on that door when you remove the top. Then immediately look at the springs on each side of that door once the top is removed. These will most likely fly off at some point but they are not that hard to reinstall as long as you know where they go.

Hope this helps. If I would have know some of these things before I tore into mine I'd be jammin again by now. Now I need to find more info on fuse locations etc. since I don't have a manual. Oh, by the way mine is a '96 but I think the decks are the same.