Radio with built in hazard switch

[Spanielchris]

Hi. I've had this problem since I've owned the car (3years now)
I can be listening to a radio station then all of a sudden it will change on to another, I then turn it back & it keeps doing it. Or it will just turn it self off. I know what everyone's going to say. "Time for a new one" but to be honest I've got better thing to spend money on. Any ideas what is wrong with it?

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Hi. I've had this problem since I've owned the car (3years now)
I can be listening to a radio station then all of a sudden it will change on to another, I then turn it back & it keeps doing it. Or it will just turn it self off. I know what everyone's going to say. "Time for a new one" but to be honest I've got better thing to spend money on. Any ideas what is wrong with it?

There is a feature on some radios, where they autoswitch to the next local station when they go out of range. Some are supposed to follow a particular station as you drive round, but I don't think the stations over here support the feature, so the radio just picks the next best station it can find...

There should be a switch to turn the feature off.

There is also the TA (Traffic announcements) and the LN (Local news) features that can also do it, as well.

 

[arcascomp]

That'll be RDS I presume. Most newer radio's have it and can hunt for a station when it perceives it to be no longer a strong enough signal to tune into.

Might be worth checking the quality of the antenna and it's lead as that might improve it.

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

That'll be RDS I presume. Most newer radio's have it and can hunt for a station when it perceives it to be no longer a strong enough signal to tune into.

Might be worth checking the quality of the antenna and it's lead as that might improve it.

Cheers, I could not think of what it was called... Mind went totally blank..

 

[vince]

the radio in my volvo was fine until my kids "cleaned" it then it used to change stations on its own (usually halfway through a good song), i took it to an electrician friend of mine and it turned out it had a function to skip channels for the news and travel forecasts. but because my clocks where wrong it did it whenever it wanted, my kids must have pressed a sequence of buttons to turn it on and i just disconnected it for 24hours and it reset itself. gotta be worth a try?

 

[96terrano]

That'll be RDS I presume. Most newer radio's have it and can hunt for a station when it perceives it to be no longer a strong enough signal to tune into.

Might be worth checking the quality of the antenna and it's lead as that might improve it.

supported Radio Data Service stations e.g. radio 1 usually broadcast text information like song and artists names etc, they can't make the radio change stations, that's the radios choice to do that:thumb2

 

[Spanielchris]

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Right, fed up with this stupid radio now. I post the other day how it keeps changing station etc. I've been trying to read on here how to get around the hazard switch problem but it really hard on the iPhone. Sorry for bringing this up AGAIN but will I be able to buy a hazzard switch off feabay & wire into it. Haven't even looked at the back of the radio so not sure what wire are there. Any one got any pics showing what wires what??

 

[trophymick]

Right, fed up with this stupid radio now. I post the other day how it keeps changing station etc. I've been trying to read on here how to get around the hazard switch problem but it really hard on the iPhone. Sorry for bringing this up AGAIN but will I be able to buy a hazzard switch off feabay & wire into it. Haven't even looked at the back of the radio so not sure what wire are there. Any one got any pics showing what wires what??

I don't have any pics, but on mine there are two plugs into the back of the radio. One is a white plug the other is brown, the brown one is for the hazard warning lights. The white one is the audio plug/lead.

I am in a similar dilemma, my hazard switch is faulty (it turns the hazards on without touching the switch), so I have temporarily disconnected the brown plug from the rear of the radio, the indicators work fine. :naughty

I did glean this from a thread on here, but I haven't tried it, yet! :nenau

("As in my previous post, if its the same as mine you just need to put a normally open switch between the green/red and the black wire on the small plug, you could even use scotch locks if you dont want to cut the original wiring.

To turn the hazard warning on it only needs the green/red wire on the hazard switch connecting to ground. ")


I am (eventually) going to take the standard radio out and fit a piece of black plastic in the void, then fit a universal type radio/cd player. Then I may fit something like this http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/product/Push_Pull_Hazard_Switch_HAZSW4 that only has three terminals to confuse me.:augie


Mick

 

[Spanielchris]

Hmmmmmm......!