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Radio cuts out every 4 seconds on only one specific station - electrical problem?

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Old 01-20-05, 09:28 AM
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my radio was doing this today. cut in and out every few seconds only on 93.3. It was driving me nuts. I tried turning car on and off, radio on off, nothing. On the screen it said LOST and was not displaying song/channel info.
I finally left it on that channel and held down the preset button to reset and it worked! The info came back up and it quit cutting out.
Does anyone know why this happens?
Old 01-20-05, 12:39 PM
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OH MY GOD!! This has been going on with my radio for the past week. It's on 93.9 and I was freaking out beacuse I thought I'd have to buy a new radio and I JUST went past my warranty.....

Thank you jesus for this thread......going to try the fix as soon as I get in the car.
Old 01-20-05, 04:41 PM
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I have a theory- My radio had been saying LOST on the channel for at least a day before it started cutting in and out. Maybe when the channel updates as mentioned earlier in this thread or looses info for some reason, the radio waits a day or so to see if you'll reset it and when you don't it starts cutting in and out to notify you.
Wierd. How many of us have had this happen?
Did your fix work, Chicagoblknazn?
Old 01-20-05, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by chuckb
I have a theory- My radio had been saying LOST on the channel for at least a day before it started cutting in and out. Maybe when the channel updates as mentioned earlier in this thread or looses info for some reason, the radio waits a day or so to see if you'll reset it and when you don't it starts cutting in and out to notify you.
Wierd. How many of us have had this happen?
Did your fix work, Chicagoblknazn?
Fix worked perfectly....the station plas uninterupted and the RDS for that sation is accepting the signal and displaying the text....thank you lawd....praise him!!!
Old 05-13-05, 11:13 AM
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I have the same exact problem. after i delete it and recreate the station it comes back after some time. I am in NY area and before i was getting in on 103.5 today i got it on 104.3. the other workaround i found was to go to 103.3 or 103.7 and then back down to 103.5 and the problem goes away untill you swich preset stations.

has anyone complained to Lexus about this ?
Old 05-13-05, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by kingloose
I have the same exact problem. after i delete it and recreate the station it comes back after some time. I am in NY area and before i was getting in on 103.5 today i got it on 104.3. the other workaround i found was to go to 103.3 or 103.7 and then back down to 103.5 and the problem goes away untill you swich preset stations.

has anyone complained to Lexus about this ?
Goto to the first page of this thread. BigMoNYC discovered the cause of this problem. I think once you unhighlight the "AF" option on the radio screen, it goes away.
Old 05-14-05, 11:29 PM
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just us FM2 or FM1 the one ur haing problems with will work on the other setting, or reset ur radio
Old 05-15-05, 02:04 PM
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Unchecking this AF thing has worked i have just tried it today..

thank you
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Yup I had the same problem the AF thing work . I happened to me like a month ago silly dealer put in a brand new radio and still did it then I saw that AF thing highlighted . Pressed it and
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Originally Posted by Fisher503
Yup I had the same problem the AF thing work . I happened to me like a month ago silly dealer put in a brand new radio and still did it then I saw that AF thing highlighted . Pressed it and
so the dealer didn't even know about this and put in a whole new head unit?

what dipsh#ts!
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So, what IS 'AF'?
Old 05-16-05, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by KevinGS
So, what IS 'AF'?

"AF" is what you press when your radio acts up
























(dont know my self)
Old 05-16-05, 07:57 PM
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have the same problem here in chicago 107.5...all my buddies were making fun of me dammit

i'll try to reset the preset...it sucks when there's a good song on!!
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