Toyota: # 1 Car Company Has Junk For Radios

If Toyota or this newsgroup fail to acknowledge junk reception and
sometimes sound on their 2002 model year radios who are they kidding.
Failure to repsond to this important consumer fraud is absurd yet you
respond to more stupid things and off subject and off Toyota subjects.
Your the loser when you own a Toyota and fail to tlak about Rav 4 and
I hear Highlander radio reception and overpriced radios in their for
sure 2002 model year. What has number one car company done about
it...NOTHING. Maybe small claims court can cure thier ill. Nick

Falling asleep through Nick's post...
 

Stupid ass

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Nick wrote:
 


Hey Mike, is that you again?

No problem, could not duplicate. And I own a 2003 Highlander. Maybe you
are confusing radio reception with XM sattelite radios? Ever occur it
was an outside interference or even the station distance?

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 23:32:40 GMT, someone who calls themselves Nick
<net> wrote:
 

The Clue Phone is ringing, and it's for you...

Most of the base-model radios in all makes of modern cars are crap.
They are made in large quantities to a pre-determined bid price
target, and only need to keep working long enough for the car to get
past the warranty date while working, period.

If it's just an AM/FM radio, there is one circuit board with three
or four LSI chips that do everything, and a lot of empty space in that
big box. As long as they can build it for under $15, they don't care.
And the speakers are just as cheap.

Even the top of the line factory radios can't touch a really good
aftermarket unit like a Blaupunkt or Sony, and a good set of speakers
to drive. But you are going to pay dearly for the added reception and
sound quality, plus add a real antenna to get rid of that worthless
piece of wire embedded in the windshield.

Long gone are the days when a base factory AM radio sounded good,
was sensitive enough to pick up a mouse fart on a 5 Watt station two
states away, and worked for 25 years without a whimper.

I have one of those radios in my Corvair - a Delco hybrid
cold-cathode tube receiver with one transistor for the PA amp final,
anyone here want to rebuild it? Probably just a bunch of dried out
electrolytic capacitors again.

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"Bruce L. Bergman" <INVALID> wrote in message
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What are you talking about? The radio in my 99 Camry V6 is excellent. I have
no trouble, even during the day, listening to AM stations from a city 200
miles away.

The stock radios in the 2002 Camry are made by Panasonic
"Bruce L. Bergman" <INVALID> wrote in message
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Spell check is FREE and is included with your newsreader.
"THIER" it's t h e i r as in "the irs" makes it easy to remember.

anyway. someone builds the overpriced stereos to toyota's specs.
same with all car companies.

You can buy better for less in the aftermarket.

"Nick" <net> wrote in message
news:com...
: If Toyota or this newsgroup fail to acknowledge junk reception and
: sometimes sound on their 2002 model year radios who are they kidding.
: Failure to repsond to this important consumer fraud is absurd yet you
: respond to more stupid things and off subject and off Toyota subjects.
: Your the loser when you own a Toyota and fail to tlak about Rav 4 and
: I hear Highlander radio reception and overpriced radios in their for
: sure 2002 model year. What has number one car company done about
: it...NOTHING. Maybe small claims court can cure thier ill. Nick

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 05:30:25 GMT, someone who calls themselves "The
Sharxster" <com> wrote:
 

That's a 4 year old car, call me back after 10 years when the base
radio has died, or is suffering from obvious ailments like noisy pots,
one channel dead or intermittent, or the sensitivity has gone to pot.
Odds are, it will show it's age.

Yes, the premium systems from the car makers will probably hold up
halfway decently, but the base cheap radios are just that - base and
cheap. They make sound and let you hear the traffic reports. If they
do that much, most people ignore the crackle from the noisy pot and
just find a point where it works.

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