BMW 5-series E61: CD-changer hangs/does not release magazine ... do it yourself

Today, I noticed that the CD-changer of our BMW 5-series E61 hangs and it did not release the CD magazine. What made it worth is that it tried to release it every couple of minutes which started to hurt the car’s battery. I bing’d and luckily found this post (in German) that describes how to fix it yourself. Basically you have to follow these steps in order to solve this problem: ...

May 1, 2012 · 1 min · 156 words · Harry Kimpel

Samsung RS21KPSM Side-by-Side refrigerator not cooling (not it-related)

By way of exception, this post is not it-related. Since I have struggled to find some information on the web, I think this still could be interesting for some folks out there. A couple of days ago my wife noticed that our refrigerator is quite warm inside and it does not get to the specified temperature anymore. As you can see on the following photo is was quite hot inside: ...

July 4, 2011 · 3 min · 543 words · Harry Kimpel