digger242j
03-07-2004, 06:41 AM
Ok, first thing I have to admit is that we're not talking about a Chevy truck--it's my wife's 1996 Lumina, but I'm thinking the radio would be similar to what they put in the trucks.
The radio is a Delco. Am/Fm/ Cassette, and it has SRV (speed related volume, I think), and the theft lock system. My wife says she's totally unfamiliar with the theft lock thing--she's never even touched it since she bought the car when it was one year old. The car has about 166,000 miles on it now.
Here's the problem--the radio cuts out for no apparent reason. Sometimes it'll stay off for a few seconds, and sometimes for a half an hour. Sometimes it'll play for a few seconds, and sometimes for 10 minutes. It'll go off when you hit a bump, but not always, and sometimes it doesn't even need to hit a bump. Yesterday it cut out while the car was sitting in the garage, not running, when all I did was tap the front of the radio with my finger. When it goes off, the clock display goes dark as well, but when it comes back on the time is still correct. It eats cassettes, so the tape player hasn't been used in a long time. If you turn the volume all the way up, you can still hear a little noise from the speakers--not words or music, just a slight hiss.
I thought maybe it was a bad power connection, but the fact that the clock stays correct and there's that little bit of output from the speakers seems to rule that out. Second thought was that somewhere inside there's a mechanism to turn the radio off when a cassette is inserted, but I spent 15 minutes yesterday poking around inside there with a pencil and it still just seemed to turn on and off with no rhyme or reason.
With that kind of mileage, we're not going to sink a lot of money into repairing the radio, but on the other hand, it has that kind of mileage because she spends a lot of time on the road, and a reliable radio would be nice.
Any ideas?
:huh
The radio is a Delco. Am/Fm/ Cassette, and it has SRV (speed related volume, I think), and the theft lock system. My wife says she's totally unfamiliar with the theft lock thing--she's never even touched it since she bought the car when it was one year old. The car has about 166,000 miles on it now.
Here's the problem--the radio cuts out for no apparent reason. Sometimes it'll stay off for a few seconds, and sometimes for a half an hour. Sometimes it'll play for a few seconds, and sometimes for 10 minutes. It'll go off when you hit a bump, but not always, and sometimes it doesn't even need to hit a bump. Yesterday it cut out while the car was sitting in the garage, not running, when all I did was tap the front of the radio with my finger. When it goes off, the clock display goes dark as well, but when it comes back on the time is still correct. It eats cassettes, so the tape player hasn't been used in a long time. If you turn the volume all the way up, you can still hear a little noise from the speakers--not words or music, just a slight hiss.
I thought maybe it was a bad power connection, but the fact that the clock stays correct and there's that little bit of output from the speakers seems to rule that out. Second thought was that somewhere inside there's a mechanism to turn the radio off when a cassette is inserted, but I spent 15 minutes yesterday poking around inside there with a pencil and it still just seemed to turn on and off with no rhyme or reason.
With that kind of mileage, we're not going to sink a lot of money into repairing the radio, but on the other hand, it has that kind of mileage because she spends a lot of time on the road, and a reliable radio would be nice.
Any ideas?
:huh