am/fm

[thejimrose]

To what avail? Why not just drain and put fresh fluid in it? I'd be worried
that you'd never get all the solvent out of the tranny and it would weaken
the new juice.

You could 'flush' it by cutting the trans fluid with a qt of atf, which is
just oil with a lot of detergents in it. Maybe drive it around for a couple
of hours and then drain and refill? Maybe start with a 'flush' of 100% trans
fluid, drive around for a while then drain + see what it looks like? Filter
it thru a paint strainer and see what turns up?

But I don't know what benefit that would give. Do axle lubricants cause
'buildup'?


On 4/5/07, Ron <vze8lher at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if you can flush a manual transmission with diesel fuel?
> Sorry if it's a stupid question........
>
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]
> On
> Behalf Of Taka Mizutani
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:18 PM
> To: thejimrose
> Cc: Quattro List
> Subject: Re: am/fm
>
> Pioneer. The radios have pretty good tuners in them- check the specs. Way
> better than Alpine,
> Eclipse, Sony, etc. My Premier pulls in stations quite well, better than a
> lot of stock radios.
>
> A couple things w/ regard to Audis- if the car has an in-glass antenna,
> you
> have to correctly hook
> up the amplifier, otherwise you'll get pretty much zero reception with any
> radio. That's not exactly straightforward-
> I had to do it at least twice or three times to get it right.
>
> I've had fairly high-end "professionals" not do this correctly as well, so
> it's not just me. :-)
>
> Also, if you have metallic tint, that can kill the reception of an
> in-glass
> antenna- big no-no. If you must have tint
> with an in-glass antenna, you have to do either dye or ceramic.
>
> IME, having an external antenna vs. in-glass makes all the difference,
> esp.
> if it's a roof-mounted antenna like
> on the New Beetle, Golf, A4 Avant, etc. I don't really know how the new
> shark-fin antennas fare as I do not have
> enough seat time in those cars to evaluate the radio.
>
> I missed the original post, so I don't know what kind of car this radio is
> for.
>
> Taka
>
> On 4/5/07, thejimrose <thejimrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > IME installing car audio for a few years the typical reception of the
> > aftermarket radios was dismal. we also sold high end home audio [krell,
> > wilson, conrad johnson, theil, threshold, b+w, etc etc etc] so we had a
> > few
> > hardcore fm guys in the store. every now and then we'd see an oem radio
> > that
> > had great fm on the whole they are decent. however as fm is not sought
> > after
> > by people buying aftermarket car radios, it's an afterthought at best.
> >
> > i can't recall a single unit - alpine, clarion, kenwood, eclipse, etc
> that
> > had a model with a decent tuner in it. i have a 700$ top line kenwood
> with
> > no onboard amp and an external power supply [in a car radio!] and it's
> > tuner
> > SUCKS. if you could pull local stations w/out noise you were doing
> alright
> > with the aftermarket. some of our customers actually had us put the oem
> > radios back in over this, and deal with line conversions to get the rest
> > of
> > the system [amps, etc] working.
> >
> > double check your connections - and you might have some ground noise
> > seeping
> > in. the car radio typically gets grounded in 3 places; antenna [where
> the
> > antenna body mounts to the fender usually], wiring harness ground and
> the
> > metal/metal chassis connection bolting it to the dash. lifting one or
> more
> > of these can help. plastic nuts/bolts, duct tape, 3m strip caulk, rubber
> > washers are your friends. =) IIRC my preference was to run the wired
> > chassis
> > ground from the head  to a clean piece of metal in the dash [make sure
> the
> > dash support metal you wire to is not isolated from the chassis] with as
> > short a wire as possible and have this be the only ground.
> >
> > you can pull the radio and antenna and try different combo's with them
> > 'loose' in the car to see if you get an improvement.
> >
> > GL!
> > jim
> >
> > >>I have installed an Alpine 9855, and I have exactly the same problem.
> > I made no change between the old (Sony) and the new radio connections,
> > but the reception is absolutely useless. I have not looked into the
> > problem yet, but I sure hope that the radio is not THAT bad.
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