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Donny Carlson
10-20-2003, 08:14 PM
My radio system is bone stock, nothing touched except I took out the two baffles in the subwoofer that were causing the sub to buzz.

I was playing a CD that I burned on my PC, parked the car and went into Blockbuster. When I came out, started the car, the only sound coming from the stereo was from the subwoofer, all the other speakers were silent. I thought the mute was pushed, but no dice. Cranking up the volume you could barely hear the music, and even the subwoofer seemed anemic. This was the situation on all modes, CD, CD Changer, Radio, Tape. I thought, great, another trip to the dealer....

But when I got home and shut off the car, I restarted it. The stereo came back on working perfectly. I even did the thingy to check each speaker, and no prob.

Odd, no?

On a somewhat related thread (ie, radios) I read somewhere that Mercury will offer an XM radio ready stereo system on GMs for 2005. Makes me wonder if the head unit will be compatable with the MM, so that a swap out of OEM head units will get you XM radio on a factory warranteed unit.
LincMercLover
10-20-2003, 08:45 PM
It's happened to me before too. I think maybe the AMP's shutting down or something... Only has happened once, and never again. Hey, if it ain't broke (or totally broke...) don't fix it!

As for the radio swap being warranted by Ford, HA! Yah... that won't happen.
TripleTransAm
10-20-2003, 09:29 PM
Happened to me once. I think it's a software glitch... also happened on a CD-R in my case. I think RF experienced this as well, once.

Perhaps the system is set up to detect a data disk as possible s/w for reflashing? Maybe it put itself in a 'seek new operational s/w' mode as it scoured the music CD in search of new firmware.
Donny Carlson
10-20-2003, 09:31 PM
If the radio head is an OEM product, Ford will warrantee it. I used to own a Probe GT that had a system with a subwoofer, but did'nt have the optional graphic equalizer. Rickwood Radio here in Birmingham, which is an authorised Ford radio dealer and does warrantee work for local Ford dealers, installed an OEM graphic equalizer in the car about a year after I bought the car, and it was fully waranteed.

Assuming the new radio head unit is compatible, in that it will hook up to a CV or GM or MM stereo system with no modifications, then it should be possible to swap out the old head unit for the XM radio capable head unit no problem, and hopefully the steering wheel controls will work with it. I'd buy one!