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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.

10-30-2001, 07:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
nwmud Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Member # 6690 Location: Everett, WA - the edge of civilization Posts: 419	Factory Radio problems 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. <IMG SRC="smilies/bounce.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/bounce2.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/bounce.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/bounce2.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/bounce.gif" border="0"> 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 __________________ Fire Good

11-01-2001, 10:56 AM	#2 (permalink)
nwmud Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Member # 6690 Location: Everett, WA - the edge of civilization Posts: 419	<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 __________________ Fire Good

11-01-2001, 02:12 PM	#3 (permalink)
Hayraker Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Member # 5946 Location: At your place, going thru your stuff. Posts: 1,671	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. __________________ I.R.B.S.T.M.

11-01-2001, 07:50 PM	#4 (permalink)
nuclearlemon Registered User Join Date: Sep 2000 Member # 1650 Location: communist city, colorado Posts: 1,831	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. __________________ "Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid sideways in a cloud of dust, flopping into the hole totally worn out, shouting ..."holy shit...what a ride!"

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