Is My Clio Cleverer Than I Thought? Or Is It Just Broken?

[Guest]

My car has a strange problem with the radio: it won't work on Essex FM. Now, some would ask why I would want to listen to such useless music, but I quite like Martin and Sue and the Morning Crew, and the traffic reports can be useful.

Anyway... I tune into the frequency or press memory button three and it'll play it loud and clear for about ten seconds and then say 'search' on the LCD display, and I have to re-tune to get the sound back.

This is just silly and it's nothing to do with signal strength - it happens everywhere. Strange thing is, I can listen to London or Kent stations with no trouble, even though the signal can be a bit ropey at times! Does anyone else have a similar problem?

Then again, it could just be protecting my ears from the likes of 'Booty Luv'. (tupw)

 

[DaveTrophy]

mine does same thing mate but it keeps switching between TFM (which is 96.6 FM) and Metro which is (97.1) - bloody thing cant make its mind up which station it wants to have on and drives me mad! half way through a tune and it will change station (swear)

It's gotta be down to the area you live in I think?

 

[George K]

Isn't this to do with whether you choose the local setting?

 

[Day]

DAB should be the future!

 

[AWESOM-O 4000]

That seems quite bizare, but sounds like an RDS issueto me??

Mine doesn't do that, but while we are on strange radio workings... mine always flashes ALARM whenever I enter the Rotherhite Tunnel, I haven't noticed it elsewhere, but defo in that tunnel and I don't even need to be listening to the Radio, even on aux, it flashes up??

Any ideas?

 

[T7PHY]

I found that my radio did all these things you guys are talking about when I changed the aerial to the CTR bee sting... When I changed it back to the standard Trophy aerial, all the problems went away... I guess it's function over form on this one!

 

[SpaceMonkey]

I get the odd issue with the CTR aerial.

^^^^ I think he's hit the nail squarely on the head.

 

[AWESOM-O 4000]

Mine is standard though?

 

[ryanaldo13]

I Have the same problem listening to real radio in scotland (it's also tuned into no3), the way round it is to put a cd into the stereo before u start up (or change to a cd before you switch off), then when the car is started turn to the radio... no probs after that...

But it does'nt bother me because it's only the football phone-in I like, the rest of the real radio shows are 90% adverts and pointless chit chat about nothing - real radio say they play more music than anyone else... Only if you include the jingles for the adverts!

 

[bludragon]

Sounds like you have auto tuning enabled, and it's getting confused. It's designed to re-tune to a stronger signal for the same station, but sometimes switches between stations. You can turn this off - I did when it kept switching between welsh and english radio1 for me, but I can't remember the exact button press, and have now replaced said radio.

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much, guys! I'll give the suggestions a go!