Hi,

I have an official Empeg tuner attached to my series II player. This has worked fine for a number of years, though reception was poor compared to every other car for a given station in a given location, and RDS reception was marginal. Recently the tuner started to misbehave, basically it would have signal, then the signal bars would drop to zero, this would bounce around for a while and then the signal would drop to zero and stay there. The next time the car/player was restarted it would work for a while, start going up and down and then stop completely. Recently it has stopped working completely. This is true for AM and FM reception. Increasing the volume increases the hiss - almost as if the radio is tuned in to a dead station.

I pulled the player and tuner out this weekend and confirmed that the loom wires were OK (visually, not with a AVO meter), and confirmed that removing and replacing the antenna made little difference (the hiss increased on AM). The power light on the module is on and stable, so it appears that the tuner is powered OK, it just appears to not receive the stations at all and be permanently suppressing noise.

Any ideas? I read with interest the issue with the PCATS kits, i.e. the Coax to board connector - has anyone experienced something similar with the official radio? Before I take it back out and open it up I was wondering if anyone had any great insight.

SW version 2.00 - I know I should upgrade to at least hijack, but it has just worked for years and life keeps getting in the way. Only this failure has slowed me down ;-)

Thanks in advance for any input.

Alan