: Factory Radio problems


nwmud
10-30-2001, 07:38 AM
I have a 1987 Dakota. When I bought the truck the radio did not work. It had a strange assortment of light segments on the clock but no radio. One day I could read the clock (don't know why it started to work) and the am radio worked. Never could get the FM to come in but hey, AM is better than nothing. Later the clock messed up again and the radio no longer worked. This happend off and on for the last couple of years.
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I few weeks ago, a guy I work with gave me a factory radio from a Chrysler and it fit and worked right away. Within a week it stopped working and I lost the clock also. <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0">
I checked the fuses, they are OK. Another bad radio or ???
Any sugestions.

Ritch

nwmud
11-01-2001, 10:56 AM
<IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> Come Awn - Does no one have any ideas about factory radios???
I know many of you had one at one time or another.

Why do mine keep dying? Is it me or is Dodge radios all fawked up?

Ritch

Hayraker
11-01-2001, 02:12 PM
the 93 1 ton I used to have had a problem with the on/off/volume knob, had to hold pressure against it or hit with something to get it to come on.

nuclearlemon
11-01-2001, 07:50 PM
my 85 powerram likes to scan through the radio stations at random...usually when there's a good song on...p.o.s. anybody have a factory radio with a working tape deck...they're rare, too.