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Hi All.
My name is Tomek and I'm from Poland. I need to write in English as i I don't speek Italian.
I hope that the administrator of this forum will not delete this post becouse it's in English...
I have a Lybra 1.8 SW for couple of months. I love this car but recently cd changer stoped to play cds. When I swich radio into CD mode I get "SURFACE" message on the screen. I cannot start any of cds loaded into the cd changer. Moreover I can not eject cd changer.
Does anyone of You met such problem in Your car.
Moreover bass reflex speaker and rear right speaker don't work....
I would be appreciate for Your help.
Thank You and best regards
Tomek

Hi tomek, welcome ! I'm the co-moderator...no problem for all of us if you write in English, you are twice welcome !
Regarding the issue with CD reader... are you using a self recorded CD with paper label put on it ? Usually happens that the paper starts moving and stops the CD reader avoiding it working and putting out the charger.
Check it. In the case you have to force the charger to exit following its instruction, remouve CDs and use only CD without paper labels.
have a good afternoon and read you soon

Hi again and thanks for Your welcome and the quick response.
I confirm that I put self-recorded cds into a changer however I didn't sick a paper label on them.
When I was reading Your suggestion I came to my mind that one of my friend's home cd players cannot read my sefl recorded cds becouse of some laser sensitivity...
Now I need to find the way to draw out the changer from the drawer...
Best regards
Tomek

Hi Tomek and welcome on board. Actually I don't have great experience about the cd changer issues because I didn't experience any problem yet. The big problem with your cd loader is that it is impossible to extract it from the cd player and the only one idea I have is to verify whether a small hole close to the eject button exists (or somewhere upon the case) for emergency event. I mean, all the cd player are provided with a hole on the front side to insert a tool, such as a sting, to open the cd loader when a CD or a DVD become stuck. If you are able to fix this problem then you can go to the second step and clean up the laser lens following the instructions written by a forum's friend, unfortunately they are in italian but we can try to translate them if needed.
Maybe you already tried what I wrote, in this case just keep in mind my greetings for you.
Best regards and good luck, reverse

Thanks for greetings Reverse and all of You guys.
I'll check for some emergency button just after I finish my work and get home. I hope it exist somewhere as "hard" work could brake it down forever,,,
I worry about the silence of the bass reflex speaker and the one in rear-right door.. Do You have any idea of the reason for this?
Regards
Tomek

Hi Tomek,
I suppose that your problem could be twice-shaped.
First of all you have a problem with your CD changer, and it could be possible that this problem is regarding a non well recorded CDs. In this case the solution is to repeat recording at slower speed. But this problem could also occur for cable-break or for ICS problems. It happened to me and I still am waiting for the repair by a technician. I bought a CD changer in Germany, but it didn't work. I got "NO CD" message on the screen. The problem is in a integrated circuit of my ICS. Perhaps in this month I'll get it repaired. This doesn't mean that your problem is the same as mine, but I mean that you have to check if both your problems are related to your ICS instead of CD changer.

Good Luck

P.S. I send you the address of the technician that knows very well Lybra ICS and is now repairing mine.
He can speak english and I consider him a real expert. If you decide to write, explain exactly to him your problem. You can tell him that his name was told to you by me (Tell him "Paolo, the owner of the ICS waiting to be repaired with the pieces token in Torino")

mercedessl5000@fastweb.it

I think that he can help you, I know some repairing on ICS from greece, so why not you?

Thanks Paolo for advise and e-mail to the expert.
The cd -changer that is in my Lybra is made by Grundig and was installed by Lancia as a part of BOSE.
I would be apperciate if You could explain what "ICS" is?
Regards.

Hi Tomek, the ICS (Integrated Check System if I remember well) is the computer that check the whole car devices and gives us information about their status (e.g. burned lamps, open door, low water level, trip computer and so on), it is integrated into the dashboard behind the LCD display that is part of the ICS.
Regards, reverse