It seems my car radio is dieing. Radio fades in and out, not letting me
turn off the radio or switch to various features of the car radio such as
the AUX (bluetooth) or the phone. Sad thing is its going to cost me 600
bucks likely to swap it out with something a bit more modern. At least it
will serve me well for the next 3-5 years of the cars life. Its already
10 years and some change old.

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Re: Car Audio
By: Utopian Galt to All on Sat Nov 20 2021 04:25 pm

It seems my car radio is dieing. Radio fades in and out, not letting me
turn off the radio or switch to various features of the car radio such as the AUX (bluetooth) or the phone. Sad thing is its going to cost me 600 bucks likely to swap it out with something a bit more modern. At least it will serve me well for the next 3-5 years of the cars life. Its already
10 years and some change old.

My condolences.

I have noticed modern cars make it extremely hard to plug in an off-the-counter radio. I don't know if such is the case with yours.

It might be more cost effective for you to tape a 32 bucks handheld portable radio somewhere in the car. One of those which is battery powered. 2 bucks of betteries can get you running for a year :-)

I know it is ugly but I would not be shilling 600 bucks for a car radio set. I could buy a stallionfriend for my mares with that and still have money to spare.

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Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-

It seems my car radio is dieing. Radio fades in and out, not letting me turn off the radio or switch to various features of the car radio such
as the AUX (bluetooth) or the phone. Sad thing is its going to cost me
600 bucks likely to swap it out with something a bit more modern. At
least it will serve me well for the next 3-5 years of the cars life.
Its already 10 years and some change old.

Can you hit the junk yard and buy one from the same type of vehicle and pop
it in? When my taxi (dodge caravan) radio quit working that's all the taxi mechanic did. Grabbed one from the shelf popped it in.

Shawn

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Hello Utopian Galt!

** On Saturday 20.11.21 - 16:25, Utopian Galt wrote to All:

It seems my car radio is dieing. Radio fades in and out, not letting me turn off the radio or switch to various features of the car radio such as the AUX (bluetooth) or the phone. Sad thing is its going to cost me 600 bucks likely to swap it out with something a bit more modern. At least it will serve me well for the next 3-5 years of the cars life. Its already
10 years and some change old.

I had considered replacing the pathetic OEM radio/cd player in
my Rav4 many years ago (all because the RANDOM mode for the CD/
mp3 player was not a proper "random"! ..but that's a different
story) But the dash has a curvature that precludes installing
a 3rd-party brand.

At 600 bucks for the radio, I would expect to live in that
vehicle, or expect to use it everyday for several hours to be
worth the expense. ;)



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