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187 messages, Last post on Aug 18, 2009 at 8:30 PM
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Your observation may be the key to the solution for a lot of people's problems! Now the big question is why is the antenna missing? I can't imagine that it's an "extra". It has to be that it's packed away somewhere in the car, waiting to be put on (I would have assumed by the dealer), or that it's some kind of snafu in the vehicle prep process that makes it easy for the dealer to miss getting it installed. Either way, the immediate action to take would be to ask the dealer, in a friendly way, about what's going on. They ought to take care of your concerns. Let us know what they tell you. Could make an interesting entry on my blog, the Alternate Route
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I have my antenna. I'll take a closer look and make sure it's attached properly - but I'm prettys sure, at least in my case, that I have a different problem. Has anyone has luck with the Crutchfield kit? |
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If the antenna is there and you still have a reception issue, I would think a likely candidate is the connection at the radio/stereo itself. I had a connector work loose back there on a prior vehicle and had to get back in there to solve the issue. I feel a blog entry forming  http://www.carspace.com/blogs/AlternateRoute/ |
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Replying to: pf_flyer (Aug 19, 2007 6:29 am) |
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I also have very poor FM reception ever since I purchased my Fit (Sport) in December 2007. It drives me crazy! The dealership looked at it but found nothing wrong. They did a drive around with me in another Fit (same Sport model) and I had to admit that the other Fit had similarly poor reception. I complained to Honda once and will definitely complain again. I have stopped many other Fit drivers in parking lots, etc, but haven't found anyone with my problems, which makes me wonder whether it's a subset of the cars? BTW, I do have an antenna. I would love for the factory installed radio to work, but mostly I just want a fix even if it costs me a few more bucks. I was told by a radio sales place that a new radio might not fix the problem?! I am going to keep pursuing this and will keep you all updated. Thanks for listening...
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| pmery - Please come back and keep us posted. I need to figure out a solution also. Can't imagine driving it for more than a few months with that kind of reception. My last car had such a great sound system that this is killing me. - Robynne | |
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I was originally missing my antenna - the dealerships remove them to prevent stealing and damage to them when they wash the cars. Adding the antenna improved the sound but not entirely. Honda told me last week that they are starting to get complaints. However the person I spoke with said he didn't know (and couldn't offer any solutions) if anything would help including replacing the radio with an after market radio. Actually he didn't know much at all, seemed very lost about what I should do while the tech people where *possibly* looking for a solution (he didn't know if they were actually looking for a solution). For now I'm listening to CDs 
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Replying to: pmery (Aug 26, 2007 8:12 am) Honda does have a test to perform... if you can find someone else with a Fit in your area, get toghether & park in roughly the same location (e.g. in the same parking lot at the same time), away from any building or other metal structure, and do what Honda calls the "seek stop test." Just tune to the bottom end of the band and hit seek. Record the stations that it stops at. If you have the same stations your Fit should be ok (actually within 10% of the same number of stations to account for particularly weak stations that one car might catch by chance). There's also the technical way to do this for those not afraid to enter diagnostic modes (disclaimer - I haven't tried this yet so I'm just relaying some info I have): tune both cars to the same station, then turn off the radio & hold preset buttons 1&6, then turn the radio back on while still holding buttons 1&6. The radio is now in diagnostic mode. Push & hold the FM button for 5 seconds and it will give you a readout of the signal strentgth in dB. If you and the other Fit parked next to your car are within 2 dB or so of each other, things should be normal. Note that when you're measuring dB signal strength, weird things can affect the signal so differences of less than 2 or so dB are likely inconsequential (they would be getting into measurement uncertainty even if you had engineering test equipment to use). Measure for one station at the bottom, middle, and high ends of the FM & AM bands (e.g. 89.1, 99.5, 107.1). To exit diag mode, just turn off the radio. When you turn it back on it should operate normally. Enjoy -Dave
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| I am looking to replace the radio in my base auto fit 07. I want to be able to connect my ipod to it. What are people recommending for this? Also, the factory installed radio is a weird shape, will i be able to do this on my own or am i going to have to have someone else install it? | |
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