I burned 31 tracks from MP3 files to an audio CD. The entire CD plays fine on six different CD players. However, track #18 will not play on the CD player in my car. It is full of static and it skips real bad. This behavior is consistent 100% of the time. During this behavior, the track up and down button will not work. The CD player actually locks up. It's almost like the laser is lost and does not know where it is.

The MP3 file from which this track was burned is good and plays perfectly on my computer and on an MP3 player so it is not the fault of the MP3 file.

The CD player in my car plays all other CDR's perfectly.

How can this one track play perfectly on six players and not work at all on one other player?

Could it be that your car player doesn´t like "oversized" (80-99 min)cd´s? (if that is what you´ve used to burn that 31 tracks cd on?)/gs.

Even if your MP3 file was eroneous, it wouldn't get the pickup system to skip.Do the other CDR's have a different brand, by chance?
Or were they recorded with another burner / speed?

Try to use other media or write speeds. Slower doesn't have to be better; the only method here is "trial and error".
But it is strange that the track in the middle of the disc is affected since the technical quality (not the audio quality!) tends to be worse to the edge (outwardly)