Why does CD player read E5 and won't play CD?

Kirk, I am not aware of any fuse to remove to make player work. Try cleaning the lazer/head. Check the attached links,instruction and guides, Good luck
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CD player doesn read disc
2007 Sonata Ltd CD player won read discs
How to Fix Car CD Player

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Does it play a cd? If so than the decoder for the dvd portion of the head unit may be bad. I would replace it if that's the case.

RESET YOUR PLAYER AT DEFAULT SETTINGS. SWITCH IT OFF. SWITCH IT ON AND INSERT CD. GIVE THE PLAYER TIME TO READ. DON'T PRESS ANY BUTTONS TILL IT COMPLETE IT'S READING. IT WILL PLAY THE CD.

ALSO CHECK CD'S ARE BRANDED AND NOT COPY FROM COMPUTER. FEW COMPUTER WRITE CD NOT HAVE AUTO PLAY OPTION.

IF PROBLEM NOT SOLVE PLEASE INTIMATE.

HI lisasmith566 IT is not a fuse problem .
the problem is your the CD part of the radio
must likely the cd is stock or more likely the cd drive motor is defective .
FIRST try pushing eject on radio and see CD comes out if not you need a new radio .

good luck vote

get a new cd player. don't bother with the factory one. they are just built cheap.

OEM cd players are set up to keep burned cds from playing well or at all. Some will work better if you use a better cd brand or quality cd.

Most new car-stereo's don't have an "oldschool" CD-drive, but really a CD-ROM drive; meaning that they won't (properly) read and/or play copy-protected CDs.

Most CD protections are specially designed not to work in CD-ROM drives to prevent copying. As a side-effect most of those protected CDs won't work in car-stereo's.

Try a CD without copy-protection (like an homemade audio CD using burning software on your computer) and see it that works ?

In case that doesn't work either, your car's CD-drive is probably broken ...

Replace the radio head unit.