This car is amusing/right on the cusp/ in that it has BOTH a CD player and a USB port to plug in my flash drive that has my favorite accumulated tunes. My salesman told me the USB was just for charging. He was wrong.
My friend bought a brand new off the lot 2019 Hyundai a few years ago. He has a huge CD collection. But his car has no CD player. Only USB for a flash drive. He is pissed at no CD player.
great!
your buddy may wish to just install a cd player?
i tried to buy a Mustang from local dealer. Dealer had hired a full staff of 18 year old kids from the local high school.
OK so far.
well, in former times 18 year old guys mostly know all about cars!
not these kiddies!
i asked several of them (I made several trips to get a different sales kid each time trying to find out the answer)
and none of them could even tell whether the engine was aluminum or “normal”... ha! anything more complex was totally hopeless.
one time the adult sales manager walked by so I asked him. he looked to be about 40 or so and should have known or perhaps at least asked the shop guys for an answer. No he could not be bothered. He simply sent me home to look up the answer for myself on the internet. That’s what he told me to do!
So, I finally gave up and bought the car from an out of state dealer who spent the time to explain everything I wanted to know. it took a trip but it was better than trying to deal with someone who did not wish to offer any help
but ... here is the purpose of this note... all of those 18 year hold high school kids had the very same sales talk. I would ask to see the engine (so I could start asking my engine questions) and the kids would not open the bonnet before insisting I sit in the car and then the kids would give me a guided tour of all 83 buttons and knobs that controlled the stereo! HA! maybe your friend is lucky his new car did not have a stereo or whatever in it, or he might still be captive in it with a kid at the dealer’s lot. smile smile smile
My wife’s 2018 van does not have an obvious CD slot. The touchscreen face of the radio flips down to show the cd slot. It will also play DVDs while the engine is not on. All vehicles from 2018 forward are required to have backup cameras, so they all have a screen. Maybe his is tucked behind the screen.
I use a USB and have only put 1 CD into my CD player just to check that it works...my current USB has a tad over 5K tunes on it...your friend should look into ripping his CDs so he can put them all on a single USB and never have to change a CD again..
“My friend bought a brand new off the lot 2019 Hyundai a few years ago. He has a huge CD collection. But his car has no CD player. Only USB for a flash drive. He is pissed at no CD player.”
If his head unit has an FM receiver he can listen to his CDs using an old school Pioneer CDX-FM45 CD changer (or equivalent). Downside is it’s kind of bulky.