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Decent Knob radio for not outrageous price?

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What radios are people running in the stock location without cutting up the dash?

Martin
 
Had a digital am fm cassette in my old 85. Can't Remember what ideas but it worked great.
 
I would be interested as well, but I would want something that could be wired up easily, since my Blazer never had a radio I would have to wire it all on my own.

I got a factory tape deck radio from an 83 K10 in a junkyard, but since there is no wiring, I'm SOL on it.
I did look, there is nothing that has anything to do with a radio in this truck.
 
Radios are stupid simple to wire up. You need a constant 12volt power source, a keyed 12 volt signal to turn it off and on, and a ground. Then you just have to run speaker wires out to your speakers.

Martin
 
Well I thought that is was simple, but My Dodge's radio has constant 12V, Key on 12V, Ground, antenna, hooked up and working speakers, but the four different radios I've tried haven't worked.

Actually, for anyone who might be able to help, I tried putting a casette in it, and it made noises from inside the radio, like it is spinning the tape and when I hit the fast forward or back buttons, I heard it do more things, so It is doing things inside of it, it's just not playing them or having anykind of a display.
 
There are still a few Marine radios that have knobs but except for Retro Sound and Custom Auto Sound, choices are few .
 
Many factory knob style radios did not use a constant 12+, that is only for memory, time settings, bass and treble, ect.

I seen LMC offers several styles that fit in the stock hole and are much more tuneable and advanced than the stock one.
 
The constant 12 volt wire is much heavier gauge than the keyed. The constant powers the radio, the keyed just signals it on or off.

Martin
 
The Griff said:
Actually, for anyone who might be able to help, I tried putting a casette in it, and it made noises from inside the radio, like it is spinning the tape and when I hit the fast forward or back buttons, I heard it do more things, so It is doing things inside of it, it's just not playing them or having anykind of a display.
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WTF, who has cassettes anymore - that's one step above an 8 track. :haha:
You can pick up a bottom of the line head unit that plays CDs and has aux inputs for cheap, maybe even a used one on Craigslist for next to nothing. But if you insist on playing your cassettes then open up the unit you have (don't worry it's not going to bite you and you won't get arrested) and see why it's not playing. You may just need to clean the metal head that the tape runs across and the rubber rollers with some rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab.

Hijack off ..... :whistle:
 
Hijack resumed.

It's the factory radio for the truck, its a 95 Dodge. I just tried the tape deck because I had no other options.

I tried an identical tape deck from the Cummins, a factory CD player radio from another Dodge we used to have, and even bought the adapters to try one of the aftermarket radios I have floating around my garage, a newer alpine CD player with aux, still no luck.

The other Cummins's tape deck I know works, and I know that the aftermarket Alpine works too.
 
The Griff said:
Hijack resumed.

It's the factory radio for the truck, its a 95 Dodge. I just tried the tape deck because I had no other options.

I tried an identical tape deck from the Cummins, a factory CD player radio from another Dodge we used to have, and even bought the adapters to try one of the aftermarket radios I have floating around my garage, a newer alpine CD player with aux, still no luck.

The other Cummins's tape deck I know works, and I know that the aftermarket Alpine works too.
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i had a 94 untill last april. i was told they have a lot of ground issues in that area. i added a ground strap from the metal brace behind the radio and spliced it into the stock wire harness. that seemed to help. my radio was only a radio no cassett or cd, went threw two of them in the 19 years we owned it
 
Well I found a little amber strobe light that needs 12V, and used it as my test light.

I used it to check the constant 12v, the key on 12v, and the ground, all were good.

I do feel that this thread has been sufficiently de-railed.
Job done.
 
Well for any and all who are interested, I tried a different aftermarket radio I had, a Pioneer CD player I found in my dresser.

I got the display to light up EXTREMELY dimly, I had to put a towel over it to notice, but when I hooked up power to it, it did light up, but very, very, very dimly.
And it would do that regardless of key on or not.
 
The Griff said:
Well for any and all who are interested, I tried a different aftermarket radio I had, a Pioneer CD player I found in my dresser.

I got the display to light up EXTREMELY dimly, I had to put a towel over it to notice, but when I hooked up power to it, it did light up, but very, very, very dimly.
And it would do that regardless of key on or not.
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Not to be a a$$, but instead of hijacking this thread why don't you continue with this one? :dunno:

http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=311822
 
Well, you see I like to think I'm a pirate of Forums, and Hijack and plunder as I please, And I also slightly forgot about that one. :whistle:
 
My son has been trying to figure out one for his (my Dad's old) '72. He has checked around on 67-72 Chevy trucks board. No one over there had much great to say of Retrosound or Custom Autosound. I do not know what the complaints were, but quite a few just said don't waste the money. It didn't seem as anyone had any great reviews.
 
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