I had recently gotten the '03 G35 and haven't come around to putting in the iPod integration stuff yet. I've been using CD-R's for now. I noticed at first that the first couple and the last songs on the CDs would make the skipping sound, more of a clicking but not actually skip. Though today I was driving around and noticed it was doing it farther into the CDs.

I have tried taking the CD's out, they check out fine. Even put them into a CD player to see if it was a problem when they were originally burned but they played fine.

What could be causing this?

I tried searching the forums and either I suck at searching or the nature of the keywords wouldn't allow me to come up with anything useful.

Also the 6 CD changer in the car, i've never had one before and I noticed it also makes a weird clicking noise when it changes CDs. I'm not sure if that's normal as well? I can take a video and show what it's doing.

 

I've had the same situation with CDs full of MP3's I made myself. Sometimes they'd play fine and many other times they'd crack, almost as if skipping. I haven't been able to tell if it is specific CDs from a specific manufacturer that combined with the MP3 interpretation by the player that is causing the issue or what. It seems some days are worse than others...

 

FYI, the 03-04 Gs don't play mp3s. 05 and up do.

 

Yeah i'm not using mp3 CD's, i'm burning them the old fashioned way.

 

the lens might not be the greatest for cdr's also you might want to try a lens cleaner. sometimes dust and magnetic interference can screw up the cds. if this is true then it will only get worse. i had a 2003 maxima with the bose, had the same problem and a lens cleaner worked for me.