Broken CD player

[hapatimmy]

My CD player stopped working suddenly.
Put a CD player in, and 5 seconds later it will eject it.
Blew some air to try to clean it, but still doesn't work.
This doesn't seem to be a common problem with Legacys,
but has anyone had the same problem?

[hallowpoint]

i had this problem with my stock tape deck.

[Bdubs]

YES. My 95 would do this ALL the damn time.

The most annoying part, it was not consistent. Some days it'd play just fine, others it'd just spit it back out. I honestly had no trick to fix it, just sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Sorry, I know that doesn't help, but you aren't alone.

[mike-tracy]

I spent $20 on a craigslist CD player, works good so far (3 years later)

[hapatimmy]

man. i dont want an aftermarket cd player.
only the dealer can fix it = expensive.

[rougeben83]

ugh, the headunit is about as universal as you can get; any stereo shop can replace it with a cheaper and much better sounding aftermarket unit without too much trouble if you don't want to do it yourself. Your stereo is just a regular DIN-sized unit.

[j_saffron]

i haven't had a good past relationship with Subaru cd players. go aftermarket, and get one with a usb port while you're at it.