How hard to fit tractor radio.

[Devil's advocate]

Main dealer of one of my tractors can't get a radio to work for more than 4 hours. Three goes at it now.

David Brown of 40 years ago, radio no problem.

Put me off buying some high tech gps gear, I was considering.

 

[HDAV]

Which tractor and radio might be a start …..

various possible reasons

 

[flywheel]

Think that might put me off dealing with the main dealer

 

[box]

Fix it yourself.

 

[daveydiesel1]

So assumin main dealer will be chargin at least 50 quid an hour u have spent minimum 200 quid and stil got no radio? If u cant do it yourself go to an auto spark

 

[smcapstick]

Fitting a radio is easy. Spotty 17 year olds have been doing it for years.

 

[v8willy]

Fitting a radio is easy. Spotty 17 year olds have been doing it for years.

30 years ago they were removing them in seconds....

 

[Suffolksucklers]

Sounds like it's got some option selected to automatically turn off after four hours

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Life must be really good, if your problems all stem from a Davy Broon radio,




Think I would be changing dealer

 

[jd6420s]

I've replaced a few radios in my time but for some reason the last one I tried to do just wouldn't work. It was a john Deere one in a John Deere tractor and all the connections were correct and it should have just gone straight in. I tried several times and checked and rechecked the wiring but still nothing. I gave up but tried again a year later and it worked first time! Still don't know what was wrong. Not had any problems with it 5 years on.

 

[jh.]

Bought a used 2019 Massey 7720 last year . It has a Kenwood stereo. It always defaults to some random digital station when first switched on . Switch to a standard fm stored station and after about 10seconds goes back to digital for that station. Just can't get it to hold last station or standard fm . Suspect it's to do with auto isolator as date is always 1st Jan too. Stores channels but that's about it. It's plumbed into standard fuse box at correct spot in manual , so must just be how modern stereos are with fancy electrics .

 

[Highland Mule]

Bought a used 2019 Massey 7720 last year . It has a Kenwood stereo. It always defaults to some random digital station when first switched on . Switch to a standard fm stored station and after about 10seconds goes back to digital for that station. Just can't get it to hold last station or standard fm . Suspect it's to do with auto isolator as date is always 1st Jan too. Stores channels but that's about it. It's plumbed into standard fuse box at correct spot in manual , so must just be how modern stereos are with fancy electrics .

Some radio connectors expect the permanent and switched lives to be the opposite way around from normal. Worth trying to swap them and see what happens?

 

[smcapstick]

Bought a used 2019 Massey 7720 last year . It has a Kenwood stereo. It always defaults to some random digital station when first switched on . Switch to a standard fm stored station and after about 10seconds goes back to digital for that station. Just can't get it to hold last station or standard fm . Suspect it's to do with auto isolator as date is always 1st Jan too. Stores channels but that's about it. It's plumbed into standard fuse box at correct spot in manual , so must just be how modern stereos are with fancy electrics .

That isn't fancy. That is lack of battery 12V feed to the head unit. It must only have ignition 12V.

String a new wire to the battery (or the nearest buzz bar) and give a 10A fuse as close to the voltage source as you can and it'll be sorted.