Radio wont change stations when lights are on

Try disconnecting the power to the radio, this should act as a hard reset and return radio to normal operation, if not hten the radio is faulty

Sounds like you have a screwed up microprocessor. You could try to reset the unit by finding the main power and disconnecting it for 20 seconds. If you cannot find the power cable, you could try to disconnect the vehicle's battery for few minutes, then power up and see if that helps.

Treat yourself and buy a newer, inexpensive radio for this vehicle. It (the old radio) ain't worth the trouble to mess with it.

back light dead.
so use the dimmer knob. all cars have a dash dimmer that runs all car parking light on, dimmed lamps. all.
so fiddle that.
get the operators guide, (lost) ????
read the pages on dash dimming.
if that dont fix it, check fuses. next.

Had same problem, the heater matrix (behind and above) the rear of the stereo leaked water and zapped the unit.

your probably in a bad place and you wont pick up a signal like if your out of cell phone range, except your probably out of radio range for am stations.

Yes it is under the dash in the fuse center

check all of your fuses, the radio has 2 power feeds, one for the operation and one for the memory, if the memory feed is out the radio will work partially like you explained

just like any computer, unplugging it for 30 seconds or so may cause it to revert to initial settings.... if you take the battery terminal off you will reset everything and that is not necessary.... find the fuse for the radio and yank it.... see if it helps. IF NOT, probably a burned programming mode... hope you like that station....

sounds like the radio is locked up.... if the radio requires a code do you have it and know how to install it... if so ... unhook the battery for about 15 minutes and hook it back up... should work ok then...

Robert

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