Help! Crappy Radio reception

[frank1975]

My Kenwood deck gets crappy Radio receptionin my 94 318 and the stock radio worked fine. My kenwood worked great in my other car. Dose anyone know what the problem might be? Crappy ant. adapter??

[BMW325i]

I think you need an antenna. Did you do the install yourself. I know when I had my alpine installed, they had to put in a new antenna as well. Not exactly sure why but this is probably the case for you.

Jeffrey

[bimmer95]

Did you hook up the remote amp/ant lead from the radio to the trigger wire on the car's stereo harness. The antenna is a powered system and need a 12+ signal from the radio to turn on.

[Kyle M]

thats a good point, I thought my signal sucked but couldnt tell if it got worse between stock and the alpine. I know I had to to hook up a wire to make sure when I played PS2 the sound would stay on, but i dont know if that is the same thing you are talking about bimmer95. Something to look into if my raido wasent such a bitch to get back in

[frank1975]

Originally posted by bimmer95
Did you hook up the remote amp/ant lead from the radio to the trigger wire on the car's stereo harness. The antenna is a powered system and need a 12+ signal from the radio to turn on.

No I dont think so I used a kit that i got but I dont think it said anything about that. dose the rem wire power up that box thing on the c pillar? What color is the wire that needs the 12v?

[bimmer95]

Are you still running the stock amp? By "kit" do you mean you used a wire harness adapter to plug the new headunit in to the stock plug? If you used an adapter harness, the wire on that harness would have been blue.

[frank1975]

Originally posted by bimmer95
Are you still running the stock amp? By "kit" do you mean you used a wire harness adapter to plug the new headunit in to the stock plug? If you used an adapter harness, the wire on that harness would have been blue.

aftermarket amp and yes I did get a wire harness adapter that plugs into the plug on the car but I had to connect the stereo harness to the adapter. I ran the blue remote wire to my amp I'll have to see whats not connected on the other end. so you know if the 12v to the ant (not the one on the kit) is blue as well?

[bimmer95]

Most radios these days have two remote wires, a blue/white wire that goes 12v+ anytime the radio is turned on (amp) and a blue wire that only goes 12v+ when the tuner on the radio is in use (ant). You need to connect the blue (ant) wire to the blue or blue/white wire on your adapter harness.

[Polo M3]

you should have a blue wire and a blue/white wire... either of them will get you what you are looking for i believe...

[Matthew C Smith]

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