Ok, my father has an LS460L with the Mark Levinson system.

When you press the load button, nothing happens. When you press and hold the button for a couple seconds, there is a beep, but the gate in the CD slot never drops down and the CD changer will not accept a CD.

Is there some other trick to this, or is his CD player broken?

Also, I have a feeling I am going to be helping him out with this quite a bit. On Saturday, I am picking up an ES350 UL for my wife. How similar are the two ML/Nav systems on the cars? If I learn the ES system, will I be able to walk him through doing things on his LS?

Thanks

 

When you press, "LOAD', the amber light starts blinking. When it changes to green, insert the disc into the slot......per the manual.

 

if nothing happens, then it might be broken. does he already have 6 disks in there?

either that or he put in an incorrect disk...perhaps a square shaped one

 

That doesn't work. I don't remember if the Amber light flashed, but it definately does not accept a disc to load before or after the beep. We have followed what the manual says and it is not working as described.

 

LOL, I don't thinks so, but you never know. He claims it has never accepted a disc.

 

Sounds like the thing is broken, had that happen to us on the Infiniti M45 our family got. I got it to take 1 disc after pressing the button etc many times until it took a disc, but then it was stuck as it wouldn't eject. Had the unit replaced and the faulty one sent out to get my CD back, which was mailed to me. Shouldn't be an issue, as long as the dealership orders a new CD player/head unit ahead of time. Good luck.

 

Tn that happened to me on the LS430, they ordered a new one and withiin a week the unit was installed and it worked perfectly w/o problems. Good Luck !

 

I guess even Lexus has problems...

 

Bite your tongue

Seriously .. I'm sure the dealer will take care of it for the customer. After all, it is a Lexus (and the flagship of their fleet, no less !)

 

Ok I just bought an 06 is250 we love the car except for the fact that we can get the CD player to work. We read the owners manual and took it to the local audio shop and the Toyota dealer they both told us we they can do is pull it out and send it off. But the manual say to press the load button and the screen will say waiting and flash amber then it will turn green. It flashes amber and that's it. It never says waiting or anything. What do we do?!?!?

 

Pull it out and send it off?

 

Yea but I'm not wanting to pay for a new cd/navigation I just want what I have to work I figured a luxury car would be more user friendly

 

If i read your msg correctly this is an 06. That means it is 7 models years old. Things break! Before I would replace it with an expensive Lexus unit I would look for a new Kenwood or Alpine unit which will sound just as good and be a lot cheaper. I am assuming this is not a ML audio system.

 

I read your post again and I see it is an ML system. If you have no extended warranty, I would go aftermarket as the ML system is extremely expensive to buy or to have worked on by your Lexus dealer.