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Our Volvo: a 2008 XC-70 (replaced the 2004 that got totalled)

A few weeks ago, the AM band of our car radio went silent (station buttons and display still work, and the FM band and CD parts still work). I posted the problem on a Volvo board and quickly heard from 4-5 other owners with the same problem. Nobody knows what causes this or how to fix it (one dealer quoted $1000 for a new head unit, but couldn't guarantee that would resolve the issue).

So, I pondered these facts:
- Volvos are very popular in Seattle
- Seattle is about as Progressive as cities get
- Talk radio is almost exclusively anti-Progressive and on the AM band
- The AM band mysteriously fails in Volvo radios
QED, crony capitalists at Volvo designed their radios to please Progressives and frustrate talk radio listeners (I have yet to find a direct link to Obama, but that doesn't clear him).

Prove me wrong, if you can.
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Oh, yeah - almost forgot - fuckity fuck fuck. :cussing:

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Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:26 pm
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Your Google Fu is weak Doc. Here is your fix. It's been an issue for ages across multiple models and years. https://www.brickboard.com/AWD/volvo/10 ... _knew.html

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Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:37 pm
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The problem is you didn't buy a Volvo. 240s, 740s, and 940s are Volvos. XCs, V and S series are Fords. They don't listen to AM in the hood (Detroit). Just kidding.


Wed Dec 03, 2014 2:20 pm
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skey wrote:
The problem is you didn't buy a Volvo. 240s, 740s, and 940s are Volvos. XCs, V and S series are Fords. They don't listen to AM in the hood (Detroit). Just kidding.



:yes: What SKEY said. 240 sissy wagon AM in effect. :rockout:

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kf7mjf wrote:
Your Google Fu is weak Doc. Here is your fix. It's been an issue for ages across multiple models and years. https://www.brickboard.com/AWD/volvo/10 ... _knew.html

Thanks, but that sounds like a different issue: ". . . the AM Radio reception was awful. . . . the fix is easy: they install a small metal plate/strip in the pillar by the rear window. . . ."

Our reception was great until one day when it went totally silent across all AM stations (preset or otherwise). My own hunch (if it's not a failed circuit in the head unit) is that the AM antenna (or ground) has become disconnected.

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skey wrote:
The problem is you didn't buy a Volvo. 240s, 740s, and 940s are Volvos. XCs, V and S series are Fords. . . .

When I was in grad school at USC, I drove a 122S Amazon (wagon) - the XC was TheMissus' idea.

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DocNugent wrote:
kf7mjf wrote:
Your Google Fu is weak Doc. Here is your fix. It's been an issue for ages across multiple models and years. https://www.brickboard.com/AWD/volvo/10 ... _knew.html

Thanks, but that sounds like a different issue: ". . . the AM Radio reception was awful. . . . the fix is easy: they install a small metal plate/strip in the pillar by the rear window. . . ."

Our reception was great until one day when it went totally silent across all AM stations (preset or otherwise). My own hunch (if it's not a failed circuit in the head unit) is that the AM antenna (or ground) has become disconnected.


From what I saw it's all related and boils down to a shitty ground.

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Well, at least you don't have Prius envy, or Subaru stoopid.

The two most common overtaking traffic lane blocking Obama bumpersticker mo fo car brands clogging up traffic state wide every - fucking - day - of - the - week.

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DocNugent wrote:
skey wrote:
The problem is you didn't buy a Volvo. 240s, 740s, and 940s are Volvos. XCs, V and S series are Fords. . . .

When I was in grad school at USC, I drove a 122S Amazon (wagon) - the XC was TheMissus' idea.
Sorry to hear that, sorta like putting a pink dress on a Rottweiler huh. Nice on the bells lights and whistles but a lot more stuff to break on the flip side. Some of the window antenna interconnects have issues if yours are is in the window itself. Don't take it to Kf7mjf's however, it will look like a porcupine when you get it back. You will however, be able to receive KGOD in the Antarctic, in Stereo, quite nicely.


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I drive a 2007 Volvo S-80 with a very poor AM radio. The dealer has "fixed" it several times under warranty and it still doesn't work right. I find it funny that a guy driving a Volvo can meet a guy driving a Subaru for a gun deal in Seattle. Gotta love it.

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Only if the FFL shows up in a Prius.

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I am so sorry.... :crybaby:

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