LLG05

FINALLY

TSB 05-06-09
Publication Date March 15, 2005
FORD:
2005 Five Hundred, Focus, Freestyle, Mustang, F-150MERCURY:
2005 Montego



ISSUE:



Some 2005 Freestyle, Five Hundred/Montego vehicles built 5/17/2004 through 2/24/2005, and 2005 Mustang, Focus, F-150 vehicles, all vehicles equipped with a single or 6 disk CD player with MP3 capability, may exhibit one or more of the following intermittent CD player concerns.
CD player skips
Locks up when playing homemade CDs
Displays "Error" or "Bad Disc"
Will not accept CDs
CD inoperative or inconsistent playability of some CDRs.

ACTION:

Replace CD player with latest service level through your facing audio service center. When replacing the audio unit (radio) on 2005 Freestyle, Five Hundred, Montego and Mustang vehicles it is necessary to perform programmable module installation (PMI) prior to removal of the old audio unit. This information must be uploaded into the new audio unit once installed. Failure to perform PMI on the new audio unit may result in inoperative backlighting and/or diagnostic trouble code (DTC) B2477. If communication cannot be established with old audio unit to download this information, as built data will need to be used. As built data can be obtained at the Professional Technician Society (PTS) website or at www.motorcraft.com. For additional information, refer Workshop Manual Section 415-01 and 418-01.


PART NUMBERPART NAME-18806-Audio Unit



WARRANTY STATUS:

Eligible Under Provisions Of New Vehicle Limited Warranty Coverage


Head to your local dealer and get it fixed. :drive:

Dave...

GhostTX

Yay! Its official! Time for a mod to add this to the TSB sticky!

Stadifer

Wasn't this issue address a long time ago with the Shaker A/B head units. The A was the bad unit and the B was the good unit. Or is this a fix for those of us with the Shaker A unit so it doesn't need to be replaced?

puffyafros

i just talked to my dealership yesterday about it and they acted like they knew nothing about it. Should I just print this out and bring it in to them?

LLG05

Yes, it may just be the same A - swap for B, but at least now it's offical. So, your dealer can't stand there and scratch their heads and says: 'there is nothing wrong, it's you cd's / burner' :bang:

Dave...

stargirl66

Cool, hopefully when I get my car it won't have any issues. I was second guessing my order choice there for awhile.

dustindu4

now we need a hood shake one

Kluski

My dealer service tech said he thinks they are switching vendors. Not sure how true that is.

dave_bought_another_black_stang

to bad they didn't fix the fact that it doesn't scroll through name title album and artist without you hitting a button, or its incompatability with itunes mp3 files.

Ballz

Well ITunes does use AAC/MP4 files you know. Not sure how many things are compatible with that.

SixtySix

:scratch:

I don't have any problems with MP3's ripped in iTunes, expand on what you're talking about?

aponyfan

Hopefully this will finally be good new for everyone who has posted about Shaker problems. After reading everything, I honestly played it safe and went with the basic stereo. I suspect it will meet my needs. (At this point, I just want to my car to be built!)

I'm not really much of a CD player in the car. I mostly just listen to the radio - primarily to one station, so this was less of an issue to me.

Best of luck to everyone with the Shakers...

stock01gt

Man I have to find time to keep up with the board. I know this is old news for y'all, but it's new to me.

My dealer's response to my shaker complaint was that "all cd changers skip". I told him my Mach 460 didn't skip one time. They said they never heard mine skip but did nothing.

Now I can point them to the TSB.

DaTT(1sK)

I had mine replaced after the TSB, and it still doesn't work right.