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Car Forum / BMW Cars / August 200798 528 E39 Window Tint & Radio
I just bought this car and had the windows tinted with metallic tint. It destroyed the radio reception, particularly AM. I had them remove it from the rear window and it has somewhat improved, but not as good as it was before I had any window tint at all. I am hesitant to retint the rear window even with non-metalized tint. If I remove the metalized tint from the front and rear windows will this take the radio reception back to "normal". Logic says it will, but I just don't know anymore. Is there anything that can be done to boost the AM radio reception without major modifications to the car (drilling a hole in the body to run an external antenna). Any help is appreciated, Terry terry at NeighborsEnterprises dot com > Is there anything that can be done to boost the AM radio reception without > major modifications to the car (drilling a hole in the body to run an > external antenna). Check the connections in the C pillar to the antenna; they sometimes get corroded (or in your case jarred loose). It's also possible the amp in the antenna circuit is toast (or was shorted by the metallic tint.) FloydR > I just bought this car and had the windows tinted with metallic tint. > It destroyed the radio reception, particularly AM. I had them remove > it from the rear window and it has somewhat improved, but not as good > as it was before I had any window tint at all. > I am hesitant to retint the rear window even with non-metalized tint. If > I remove the metalized tint from the front and rear windows will this > take the radio reception back to "normal". Logic says it will, but I > just don't know anymore. There's more than one aerial imbedded in the glass and a guess is that shorting or whatever them may have damaged the amplifier/selector unit. Other possibility is removing the film might have physically damaged one. > Is there anything that can be done to boost the AM radio reception > without major modifications to the car (drilling a hole in the body to > run an external antenna). I doubt it - it's not of the best when working properly.  Signature*Rehab is for quitters. Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. I removed the metallic window tint from the rear window and the radio reception came back to almost the way that it was before the tint was applied. I suspect if I removed it from the front and rear windows it would come back to 100% of the way that it was. Now I am debating on putting on "non-metalic" film on the rear window. Has anyone done this with any problems? >> I just bought this car and had the windows tinted with metallic tint. >> It destroyed the radio reception, particularly AM. I had them remove [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > I doubt it - it's not of the best when working properly. >I removed the metallic window tint from the rear window and the radio >reception came back to almost the way that it was before the tint was [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >"non-metalic" film on the rear window. Has anyone done this with any >problems? NO NO NO leave it on the front - you just might total the car then we would all be safer. Only drive it at night with the lights off though. >>> I just bought this car and had the windows tinted with metallic tint. >>> It destroyed the radio reception, particularly AM. I had them remove [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> >> I doubt it - it's not of the best when working properly. >I removed the metallic window tint from the rear window and the radio >reception came back to almost the way that it was before the tint was [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> >> I doubt it - it's not of the best when working properly. I had the same AM problem on my E39. Metallic tint ruined the reception, the non-metallic restored the reception, and now, 4 years later the tint has held up very well Well I finally had the metallic film removed and the radio reception improved dramatically. I drove it around for a while with no tint on. Then I finally took the plunge and put non metalized tint on the rear window. Radio reception did not change. Just wanted to let you guys know, if anyone cared. Terry >I just bought this car and had the windows tinted with metallic tint. It >destroyed the radio reception, particularly AM. I had them remove it from [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Terry > terry at NeighborsEnterprises dot com |
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