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<blockquote data-quote="Walter Pinkman" data-source="post: 8587369" data-attributes="member: 673484">So, I&#039;m pretty clueless as far as any of this car audio goes, but.. here&#039;s a question, my radio will randomly cut to static.&nbsp; I&#039;ll pull into my garage, it&#039;ll cut out to static, when I go to start it the next day, the radio works fine (FM).. when I start pulling out, it&#039;ll cut off, and when I get outside, back on again, and randomly go to static.When I hit an open stretch of highway, it completely cut off and was nothing but pure static.The messed up part is sometimes, when I put my hand over the face of the deck (it&#039;s a Clarion)that the radio will start partially working again and I&#039;ll get reception.My question is, has the antenna started to go,&nbsp; is there a lose wire in the deck or is the deck finally shot?It&#039;s a Clarion deck, probably 5-6 years old....&nbsp; 2001 Impala, everything but the deck is stock.EDIT:&nbsp; AM Radio has never worked after the person who installed the deck, did it..If i&#039;m going to possibly rip this thing apart and look, I&#039;d rather have a start point or not do it at all if its an antenna issue and work with that....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Walter Pinkman, post: 8587369, member: 673484"] So, I'm pretty clueless as far as any of this car audio goes, but.. here's a question, my radio will randomly cut to static. I'll pull into my garage, it'll cut out to static, when I go to start it the next day, the radio works fine (FM).. when I start pulling out, it'll cut off, and when I get outside, back on again, and randomly go to static. When I hit an open stretch of highway, it completely cut off and was nothing but pure static. The messed up part is sometimes, when I put my hand over the face of the deck (it's a Clarion) that the radio will start partially working again and I'll get reception. My question is, has the antenna started to go, is there a lose wire in the deck or is the deck finally shot? It's a Clarion deck, probably 5-6 years old.... 2001 Impala, everything but the deck is stock. EDIT: AM Radio has never worked after the person who installed the deck, did it.. If i'm going to possibly rip this thing apart and look, I'd rather have a start point or not do it at all if its an antenna issue and work with that.... [/QUOTE]

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