Puzzling Radio

[Micetic]

Hi,

Well my radio is the stock cassette deck and when I got the car it played only pure static. The antenna was also bent and partially up.

Well today I went to the junk yard, got a new old power antenna (and clear corner lenses! :) ) and installed it. The power antenna works great now and the radio does play stations but with a lot of background noise and static mixed in.

Is this a problem with the radio or the antenna wire? Anyone experiance anything like this before? :confused:

[Dibly74]

Sounds like you got another bad radio. The radios in the 89's and know to be crap. It took me three at a junkyard to get a good one.

[gadget73]

Make sure the spot on the fender where the antenna sits against is clean. If its not getting a good ground, and if the antenna connector isn't clean it might explain the static.

[87 town]

Hi,

Well my radio is the stock cassette deck and when I got the car it played only pure static. The antenna was also bent and partially up.

Well today I went to the junk yard, got a new old power antenna (and clear corner lenses! :) ) and installed it. The power antenna works great now and the radio does play stations but with a lot of background noise and static mixed in.

Is this a problem with the radio or the antenna wire? Anyone experiance anything like this before? :confused:

From my own personal experience I had it where my antenna was corroded along the panel under the driver door going back to the trunk. Corrosion from rust/weather/age. Had the whole wire replaced from the radio to trunk and I was good. Had static also, same as you have before this. Just something else to consider. You can remove the panel strip and inspect it fairly easy. Antenna wire is cheap. You may even run the wire loose first along the car as an experiment from the radio to antenna without pulling the old one first to see if it solves the static problem..

[Micetic]

From my own personal experience I had it where my antenna was corroded along the panel under the driver door going back to the trunk. Corrosion from rust/weather/age. Had the whole wire replaced from the radio to trunk and I was good. Had static also, same as you have before this. Just something else to consider. You can remove the panel strip and inspect it fairly easy. Antenna wire is cheap. You may even run the wire loose first along the car as an experiment from the radio to antenna without pulling the old one first to see if it solves the static problem..

That was it, thanks for the tip!!!

[87 town]

That was it, thanks for the tip!!!

Glad it worked out. The beauty of this site is that since our cars are the same, we tend to have the same issues at one time or another. When my static first started, I kept looking to the antenna and didnt think about the antenna wire till much "static" later.:)