Are you subs up really loud? If you turn them does it still skip? If it does it could be the lazer it out of aligment. Most of the time when a deck starts acting up its not worth it to have it fixed unless your deck is really expensive or your in love with it. You can try to plug a diskman or somethign into your amp to see if it still skips. Or even a home cd player. Look at it this way if it is broken time to get soemthign better