Ya mean I've been hornswaggled?
Posted on 05/23/2010 1:34:37 PM PDT by library user
But I just vacuumed them!
Dunno where Blaupunkt got that reputation. I spent a couple of years in Germany, and over there it’s considered the european equivalent of the unit you can buy at walmart.
Ya mean I've been hornswaggled?
Just got rid of my 2003 Neon after 384,000 miles. It was my third Neon. Great cars!
Wow! Car parts stores and Google. Who'd ever think of trying those instead of taking up space on FR? I mean -- a 96 Neon that still runs and he's worried about the radio?
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I had a Blaupunkt in a '70 VW. The car took a direct lightning strike. The view from all windows turned into a purple glow, the radio let out a rising note like a siren for about ten seconds then all silent for about thirty. The thunder clap was actually painful. Then the music came back on, we never had a problem with radio or the ignition. I would not want to have had the door open and one foot on the ground!
Regards,
GtG
Unless someone was digging around behind the radio at some point, there’s no reason for the antenna connector to have popped out of its socket. And I don’t think the car is old enough to have ground problems from corrosion (and I would expect some period of flakiness rather than sudden outright failure).
My ten bucks is on it needing a new radio. With the universal DIN mounts they use nowadays it should be a snap. You might even be able to find a factory unit on eBay, in which case it would be a true plug and play fix.
Is the radio logged in?
I’ll bet there’s only one antenna connection, like every other car radio I’ve seen for the past 50 years, so if the AM section is working like before, it’s not a disconnected antenna; probably not even a broken antenna connection inside the radio.
Is the display responding to FM tuning actions?
Is the radio capable of storing FM frequencies and recalling them to the display?
Is the radio AM section and display responding normally to all the buttons and knobs, with the only anomaly being no FM reception?
If all the above are true, then the most likely thing is that the "local oscillator" in the FM section has died. The FLM LO, as well as the synthesizer that does the tuning, is most likely embedded in a single IC chip that does all the heavy lifting for AM and FM reception, with a small number of external components.
If and only if you have your propeller beanie handy: Your best bet is to touch up the solder joints on the circuit board; but only those which are for through-hole components. You have to be an expert to work on surface-mount components.
Sounds like one of your incantations gone wrong.
Not on car radios.
Yeah, I think I forgot to 'pause' at the comma. Those things are easy to forget and hard to ignore later (like saying "yes dear" to the wife while reading the sports page...).
Regards,
GtG
Go to a junkyard and get a replacement.
There are three different possible causes depending on the model. Only the very inexpensive am / fm and the am / fm / cassette require an expensive, sealed fm tuner. I have the improved replacements.
The cd models can be repaired for intermittent fm without replacing expensive parts and once repaired, they are usually repaired for life. Sorry to say, these are really not do-it-yourselfer repairs because disassembly is difficult and time-consuming, and there is a real good chance of damaging some circuit boards.
There are other issues to be addressed at the same time including intermittent display on the cd-only models, front switches don’t work or perform the wrong functions, and the volume control works poorly.
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