Any theories? I'm scratching my head. Used a Crutchfield harness, wired everything up- FM is great, no AM whatsoever. ?

 

from what I remember.. you can get AM reception without an antenna, you need the antenna to get the FM.. Try contacting Crutchfield's tech support.. might be an issue with the radio..

 

I'll give them a shot. Radio has been in my other car with perfect AM reception, however. Its something specific to the TC. There's no separate AM antenna wire, is there?

 

no there isn't a separate wire.. the one standard "motorola-mini" plug is all there is.. I am drawing a blank on this one, definitely give crutchfield a call.. im gonna ponder what it could be.. sorry i can't help more..

 

Crutchfield says that there's some kind of antenna booster or something and I need to pull it apart and wire up the blue wire in the adapter to the blue wire in the Kenwood harness. Its late, so I'll give it a shot later in the week.

 

really.. I remember that the xB has the booster because it didn't have a regular antenna, it's antenna is in the rear glass so it needed a booster.. I asked a bunch of people if the tC had this and they said no.. yeah I'd like to know what happens with yours..

 

I remember that blue wire being important when I put an aftermarket head unit in my dad's corolla. But anyways I think the wire was like the power antenna lead or something to do with the antenna. But I couldn't get any AM reception in that car till the blue wire was connected.

 

I'm really not sure why that would be happening unless there's some wrong with the HU..

personally, I haven't listened to AM radio in 8 years or so, it really wouldn't bother me. are you a big AM radio fan?

 

did you hook up the power antenna wire????


moved...

 

You don't need to hook up a power anteanna in the tC because the anteanna is stationary....

I don't know what it could be.....that's not something I've heard of.....or heard as a complaint at least....

 

Just curious... why would you need AM? I personally haev never ever met somebody drivng around in their car listening to the AM stations...

-Emo

 

baseball games, weather reports, traffic reports....whatever

 

Red Sox games!

 

just because its stationary does not mean it can't have an antenna amplifier...

its just like VW's and the xA and xB's hook up the power antenna wire!

 

I have the same problem with my xb i just installed a jvc headunit and i do not have am reception. I used a wire harness and i will have to look up that booster wire info