Radio Problem - Please Help

[4-2NV]

Originally Posted by dhunterart

AT LEAST YOU HAVE A RADIO!...I picked up my lovely orphan red pure but it came without a radio and my local sound advice told me it would be another 4 weeks will they get the "kit" for the Smart. I have been reduced to a $12 battery radio till then. Anyone have a spare radio or know of a after market radio that will fit?

Save your money and put a big-a$$ boom box on your rear parcel shelf. Just the tire noise alone will kill the sound quality of a custom-built. I have the uprated smart system and it just doesn't cut it.

[Docthrock]

Originally Posted by mike-in-sa

If you do not want the radio to come on when you start up- heres what you have to do... Turn the key off, the radio is now silent, now push the on-off button-the radio is playing. Now push the on-off button again, radio is now silent and will not come on when you start the car. If you do not play the radio the next time you start it, the radio will stay off. If you play the radio while you drive, then you must repeat the process.

I tried this technique and it works to change the default of the radio to OFF. When I restarted the car, turned the radio on, then turned it off, the radio stayed off. So it looks like if you forget to turn the radio OFF when you turn the car OFF, then you have to go through the "defaulting to OFF" steps again. Weird.

[Teresa]

Radio staying on all the time won't bother me a bit. I'm a music lover and have 4 Sirius radios (1 for every vehicle I own, including my boat). Radio's in my vehicles never get turned off (that I know of)!!!

[zelda302]

I have my radio set to AUX and have my SIRIUS sitting in the glove compartment. If the SIRIUS is "off", the radio will come on, but since it is set to AUX, nothing will play out of the speakers. So if the automatic ON functions annoys you, set the radio to AUX. I can't tell you how embarrassing it is to come out of choir practice at church, only to turn on the car and have Howard Stern flirting with a stripper while you are still chatting goodbye to your church friends. I am very concious now of whether my radio will play when the car is started. That only has to happen ONCE!

[bradgarbus]

Originally Posted by sixcrows

No, no. We're all kin here, right?

This radio is driving me nuts, I tell ya'!
My car is INSISTING that I listen to the radio, and I'm BIGGER than my car!

I am getting visions of "Curby the Love Bug" here... HELP!!!!

[rarebird]

Does anyone know if the "random play" function on my 2009 Passion's Smart Premium sound system is limited to only shuffling one CD, or is it supposed to shuffle all 5 cd's? If so, why shuffle the songs on only one CD???

[jwight]

Originally Posted by rarebird

Does anyone know if the "random play" function on my 2009 Passion's Smart Premium sound system is limited to only shuffling one CD, or is it supposed to shuffle all 5 cd's? If so, why shuffle the songs on only one CD???

It appears it only shuffles a single CD, and it will do that forever. The only way to have it play each CD is without setting it on "random." Just another smart quirk.

[Bill&Barb]

We had the same problem with our radio, took it to the dealership, had them try several of the smarts they had on the lot or were currently working on, found out it is NOT normal to have to turn the radio off every time you start the car. They replaced the radio which works like it suppose to now.

[NeWave]

The shuffle is also funny. I've had quite a few times where songs repeated within a few songs... (mp3 shuffle)