The AM reception on my 03 Tib is practically zilch. OK, I do live in
the boonies, but even when I'm in a city area, the reception is flaky,
especially in hilly terrain.

Is that a common problem, or should I have it checked? The reason that
I ask is that I live some 60 miles from the dealer, and I usually only
take it in for oil filter and stuff that truly affects the warranty.

TIA,

Lakeside

 

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:12:16 -0500, me@privacy.net staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> The AM reception on my 03 Tib is practically zilch. OK, I do live in
> the boonies, but even when I'm in a city area, the reception is flaky,
> Is that a common problem?

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search , this newsgroup,
keyword "radio" will give you a bunch of results with people complaining
about the AM radios on Santa Fe and Elantra models. It's fairly common.

The 2003 Tiburons have a built-in CD player, a good CD-RW drive is less
than $100, blank CD-Rs are $1 each for quality media, Napster is dead
but Overnet/Kazaa Lite/OpenNap are still alive, and iTunes is also
around. Who needs the radio?

--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
You have me mixed up with more creative ways of being stupid. --MegaHAL
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> Who needs the radio?

You can't get weather and real time traffic reports from Kazaa.

 

Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:12:16 -0500, me@privacy.net staggered into the
> Black Sun and said:
> > The AM reception on my 03 Tib is practically zilch. OK, I do live in
> > the boonies, but even when I'm in a city area, the reception is flaky,
> > Is that a common problem?
>
> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search , this newsgroup,
> keyword "radio" will give you a bunch of results with people complaining
> about the AM radios on Santa Fe and Elantra models. It's fairly common.

Pardon my laziness: I know I should have Googled the group, but just
had a blonde moment (I'm married to one, so I DO have an excuse!).

>
> The 2003 Tiburons have a built-in CD player, a good CD-RW drive is less
> than $100, blank CD-Rs are $1 each for quality media, Napster is dead
> but Overnet/Kazaa Lite/OpenNap are still alive, and iTunes is also
> around. Who needs the radio?
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> You have me mixed up with more creative ways of being stupid. --MegaHAL
> Hire me! http://crow202.dyndns.org/~mhgraham/resume/

 

Mike wrote:
>
> > Who needs the radio?
>
> You can't get weather and real time traffic reports from Kazaa.

Yup, and I even looked into Sirius and XM. They don't carry the kind of
stuff I like. Sirius music offerings are good (get them on Dishnet) but
I do like some talk radio. The hosts carried on either/both just don't
do anything for me.

 

Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:12:16 -0500, me@privacy.net staggered into the
> Black Sun and said:
> > The AM reception on my 03 Tib is practically zilch. OK, I do live in
> > the boonies, but even when I'm in a city area, the reception is flaky,
> > Is that a common problem?
>
> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search , this newsgroup,
> keyword "radio" will give you a bunch of results with people complaining
> about the AM radios on Santa Fe and Elantra models. It's fairly common.
>
> The 2003 Tiburons have a built-in CD player, a good CD-RW drive is less
> than $100, blank CD-Rs are $1 each for quality media, Napster is dead
> but Overnet/Kazaa Lite/OpenNap are still alive, and iTunes is also
> around. Who needs the radio?
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> You have me mixed up with more creative ways of being stupid. --MegaHAL
> Hire me! http://crow202.dyndns.org/~mhgraham/resume/

Further....

Guess I should have made that a 2-part question, with the second being:
Anyone have any success getting them repaired or otherwise made to work?

Did indeed do the Google thingy on this group; found LOTS of posts and
read most of them, but not one where anyone said a radio had been
repaired to their satisfaction.

Now, where did I put that lil ole Walkman?