BAT VK-D5SE Mistracking

I still have it. I’ve been searching YouTube and have looked at a few videos but I haven’t found one for the Philips yet. I’m sure I can do it if I find one for the Philips that shows me how to do it. Doesn't it have to be realigned if it's replaced?

I found the Philips videos on YouTube finally and it doesn't look too complicated. I'm going to try cleaning and regreasing the rails first then see if that fixes it before I try changing out the laser.
It took two weeks to get a reply back from BAT. I heard back from someone at Music Direct first, who now owns BAT, who told me that they wouldn't service it and forwarded my email to Victor Khomenko. I heard back from him a few days later and he told me that the player would longer be serviced and couldn't/wouldn't recommend me to a tech that would service it. I realize the player's around ten years old but it was a top of the line very expensive unit when they built it. I'd hoped they would at least have tried to help me with it more than they did which amounted to nothing. Khomenko just couldn't be bothered.

No, not yet. I wasn't aware they were replacable.

Got it out, cleaned and lubed as much of the rail as I could get to without disassembling everything. I was able to get to about 80% of it. Cleaned the laser lens. I cycled it from the first to the last track several times and have a cd playing through right now. I'll listen to one when this first one finishes up. I hope I did some good. The rail wasn't really dirty but it was dry with no trace of lube.

AH, you’re asking about the DF-PMD100 upgrade chip that replaces the HDCD chip. Well. I couldn’t figure out which chip it’s supposed to replace. The instructions that came with it has a photo of the chip it replaces but it doesn’t match any chip that I can see on the board. The photo shows a chip with HDCD printed on it but mine doesn’t have one that matches it. I emailed the seller in Germany and Lampizator a couple of times and never got a reply from either of them. I have a spot with an HDCD light on the face of the player but when I loaded an HDCD it didn’t light up. I’m not sure if the VK-D5SE even decodes HDCD as I haven’t found any info on it. I just left things alone until I could maybe find any info about it. Until your post about it I’d forgotten I still had it. lol

I've played two discs and haven't had any mistracking so far. One of them was mistracking quite a bit before but played perfectly this time. Fingers crossed.