[s-cars] Bose Delta woes

[Steve.Mundy at lawson.com]

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Thanks for confirming some of my own research from last night.

I was able to find a pair of extraction blades, pulled the radio, and
reconnected the CD wires.  That's the good news.  However, nothing else
was loose or disconnected.

Both AM and FM have very weak reception.  If I disconnect the antenna lead
from the radio, all reception completely disappears.  So I think it
must be the antenna amplifiers.  However, the question remains how can I
have weak reception for both AM & FM, with the antenna connector still
connected?

At least I don't think I need to go out and buy a rebuilt radio.

It's an 95.5 Avant, with the roof mast; some research last night in the
Bentley Manual seems to say the amplifiers are located in the A pillar
and D pillar.  Guess tonight I start pulling off the pillar trim.

Thanks again for the info.

Steve



>The FM antenna amplifiers (2 each) are external to the head unit. If
>you have the in-glass antenna's, then the one amp (for the front
>windshield) is in the front A pillar; the one for the rear antenna is
>(I believe with all my heart) under the back deck, above the metal
>plate that is on the trunk side, right next to the place the wires drop
>down. The Bentley manual illustrates these locations quite well,
>although they are a pain in the arse to get to.

>I think it's dubious that you lost both antenna's at the same time
>unless the antenna connector got disconnected (sits on the rightmost
>side of the rear of the stereo). Question: do you get AM OK, and only
>FM is failed, or have both failed? All this advice of course presumes
>you have the in-glass antenna's. If you have a standard antenna (wire
>mast, power antenna, etc) that shipped in some of the model years, then
>I don't have the answers for you....

>Cheers!
>=-= Marc Glasgow

>>STEVE MUNDY WROTE:

>>My radio (Bose Delta) suddenly seems to have lost the
>>ability to amplify sound from the radio tuner.  The tape
>>player sounds fine;  the CD player sounded fine as well,
>>at lease until I removed the temperature control unit to
>>reach under the radio to check for loose wires.  (I haven't
>>tracked down an extraction tool yet, so I had to take the
>indirect route.)  Now there's no power to the CD changer.

>>Bummer.

>>Does anybody know if there is an antenna amplifier in the
>>radio unit?  Is that likely to be the problem, since the station
>>select buttons seem to work?  (Although somewhere along
>the line they were all reset to 87.7)  Rebuilt units from the dealer
>>are $200 -- cheap if the radio unit is the problem, but expensive
>for trial-and-error.