Topic: If Cars Were Invented Last Week

[charlesoakwood]

Oh jeepers!!!

[charlesoakwood]

Do you have speed adjusted volume control?

ETA there are problems with those, otherwise I get zip at the forums.
Did find out that there is a specific pin in the harness for that task.

I'm interested to hear your results.  Mine is push on/off and volume.
The knob has no bottom or top it just rotates and when you turn it
on regardless of previous volume setting it comes on at a predetermined
level. 

[Pandora]

Lol.  NO.  Is there such a thing?

[charlesoakwood]

Lol.  NO.  Is there such a thing?

Yeah, they added it in 03 or 04 before that it was an add-on feature.


ETA there are problems with those, otherwise I get zip at the forums.
Did find out that there is a specific pin in the harness for that task.

I'm interested to hear your results.  Mine is push on/off and volume.
The knob has no bottom or top it just rotates and when you turn it
on regardless of previous volume setting it comes on at a predetermined
level. 

[Pandora]

Lol.  NO.  Is there such a thing?

Yeah, they added it in 03 or 04 before that it was an add-on feature.


ETA there are problems with those, otherwise I get zip at the forums.
Did find out that there is a specific pin in the harness for that task.

I'm interested to hear your results.  Mine is push on/off and volume.
The knob has no bottom or top it just rotates and when you turn it
on regardless of previous volume setting it comes on at a predetermined
level. 

2000 F150.  Same type on-off button, and the same goes for no top/bottom, it will spin into infinity and beyond, but when the truck is started, the radio comes on at the volume it was when the truck was last shut off.

Except for NOW ........ since there's no way to adjust the freakin' volume.  So, it's at the volume it was when it was still operational.

Checked with my brother; he sez "you've a problem in/with the radio .....".  Okay. FINE!

The Ford dealer wants $1300 for just the radio, labor not included.  Unh hunh; not happening.  There are far less expensive, just-as-good after-markets for sale.  *sigh* Good thing my birthday is not too far off.

[charlesoakwood]

Rats.

[Pandora]

Rats.

That's what I say.  Nevertheless ....

Feh.  It's a small thing, the damn radio.

Christmas is almost here; there are more important and joyful things upon which to dwell.

[BigAlSouth]

The Ford dealer wants $1300 for just the radio, labor not included.  Unh hunh; not happening.  There are far less expensive, just-as-good after-markets for sale.  *sigh* Good thing my birthday is not too far off.

Plenty of shops in Triangle who will install a better than OEM radio with lots of cute features (GPS, touch screen, etc.) for a couple hundred.

Happy Birthday! Why don't you just set up a PayPal Acct. and we'll all chip in!

Seriously!

[Glock32]

We picked up the truck and it seems to be running fine now.  However ....

.... suddenly ....

... the radio volume control knob no longer works.

As an auto mechanic's daughter, I know how these sorts of things often go -- in the engine, for instance.  Replace a part or parts, and the rest of the parts don't know how to act anymore; all the original parts and pieces were broken in together and now there's a new guy in the neighborhood, so, inevitably, the weakest one has a nervous breakdown and gives up the ghost, with the mechanic invariably, wrongfully getting the blame.  (This is the fanciful version; I've taken artistic license.)

But the radio knob?!

I am not a high-maintenance woman; I do not ask for much.

Yes, I know things could be a lot worse, but COME ON!! awready.

It's one of the axioms of software engineering: statistically, every bug fix introduces 1.1 new bugs. I figure it's the same for mechanical and other systems too.

[John Florida]

Why don't you tell me, if you know the answer, as, you know, like, a Christmas present.

 If I knew I would tell you no matter what the month is. I don't see a connection at all just a fluke.

[John Florida]

Lol.  NO.  Is there such a thing?

Yeah, they added it in 03 or 04 before that it was an add-on feature.


ETA there are problems with those, otherwise I get zip at the forums.
Did find out that there is a specific pin in the harness for that task.

I'm interested to hear your results.  Mine is push on/off and volume.
The knob has no bottom or top it just rotates and when you turn it
on regardless of previous volume setting it comes on at a predetermined
level. 

2000 F150.  Same type on-off button, and the same goes for no top/bottom, it will spin into infinity and beyond, but when the truck is started, the radio comes on at the volume it was when the truck was last shut off.

Except for NOW ........ since there's no way to adjust the freakin' volume.  So, it's at the volume it was when it was still operational.

Checked with my brother; he sez "you've a problem in/with the radio .....".  Okay. FINE!

The Ford dealer wants $1300 for just the radio, labor not included.  Unh hunh; not happening.  There are far less expensive, just-as-good after-markets for sale.  *sigh* Good thing my birthday is not too far off.

 Check a salvage yard.thois things aren't worth much used.

[charlesoakwood]

Spray some WD 40 on it.

[Pandora]

Why don't you tell me, if you know the answer, as, you know, like, a Christmas present.

 If I knew I would tell you no matter what the month is. I don't see a connection at all just a fluke.

Ah.  Okay.  I read you as if you had an answer and was just taunting me.   

[Pandora]

The Ford dealer wants $1300 for just the radio, labor not included.  Unh hunh; not happening.  There are far less expensive, just-as-good after-markets for sale.  *sigh* Good thing my birthday is not too far off.

Plenty of shops in Triangle who will install a better than OEM radio with lots of cute features (GPS, touch screen, etc.) for a couple hundred.

Happy Birthday! Why don't you just set up a PayPal Acct. and we'll all chip in!

Seriously!

Aw, that's sweet of you, but, no thank you.

We'll get 'er fixed up in no time.

[John Florida]

Why don't you tell me, if you know the answer, as, you know, like, a Christmas present.

 If I knew I would tell you no matter what the month is. I don't see a connection at all just a fluke.

Ah.  Okay.  I read you as if you had an answer and was just taunting me.   

 I wouldn't ever think of taunting you,ever.

[charlesoakwood]

WD 40 won't hurt it.

[Pandora]

WD 40 won't hurt it.

What "it" should I spray on some WD 40?  It's not like the old-time radios where when the knob kept dialing it meant the knob itself was busted.

[charlesoakwood]

It starts at the knob, some kind of contact, relay, whatever.
It might be some dust or oxidation impeding contact.
Just put that little red tube on the nozzle and spray.
What the heck.

BAS said two bills, that's not bad. I've got a carousel CD
as part of my radio system and you've got me worried.
Got a feeling that 2 bill system might not be compatible.

 

[AlanS]

BAS said two bills, that's not bad. I've got a carousel CD
as part of my radio system and you've got me worried.
Got a feeling that 2 bill system might not be compatible.
 

I replaced the one in my 01 F150 when the volume stuck at full blast. My eldest gave me a radio/CD player that plays MP3's. Of course the harness, cubbyhole enclosure, and 2 new speakers cost me about $120.

[Pandora]

BAS said two bills, that's not bad. I've got a carousel CD
as part of my radio system and you've got me worried.
Got a feeling that 2 bill system might not be compatible.
 

I replaced the one in my 01 F150 when the volume stuck at full blast. My eldest gave me a radio/CD player that plays MP3's. Of course the harness, cubbyhole enclosure, and 2 new speakers cost me about $120.

Yours too, with the damn knob?!  Sheesh!

The helpful man I spoke to at the Ford Service Department assured me aftermarket set-ups would be quite compatible, even with the CD changer, and with the existing dashboard faceplate, so we'll see.

I don't really hanker for the iPod/MP3 thingie so I can do without it.