I had the original post on this thread and wanted to follow up with my findings. A couple of people mentioned antenna problems along with the radio problem and since my Z had a manual mast installed at some point, I thought maybe they're related. I replaced it with a power antenna (new, adaptable, but not Nissan original) from Ebay. Afterwards tested the unit and the radio turned off/on just dandy which it had never done in the 3-4 mos. that I have owned it. Tested it further about 20 times, no failures. Hooray! right? Got in the car a day later tested it again and it didn't work properly. Had to insert a cassette tape to get it to power up.
Conclusions? none really, maybe I was onto something, maybe it's all coincedence.........dunno. I appreciate the tip, but for me it ain't worth removing and sending to wildbill for repair. Also,I really don't expect him to hurt his potential income by divulging the answer. It does bug me not knowing the cause.
Dane
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> able to fix mine. He did a nice job, and my radio now works like new. >
> > To Dane,
> > I just came up on an '87 Z myself. It does exactly the same thing! I was
> > thinking perhaps it's a bad ground to the radio. Just a hunch. but
> > now.....who knows!
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> > To Elliot......how much?
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> > > i own a 87 with 40k i am selling the orignal radio that works with the
> > > steering wheel
> > > would you like more info . maybe you will want to purchase this unit > from
> > me
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> > > Dane Vickery wrote:
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> > > > Just purchased an '87 Turbo and one of the small problems I bought > with
> > it
> > > > is once the radio is turned off it will not come back on. If you press
> > > > either the tape or am/fm button on the steering wheel, the radio turns
> > off
> > > > and will not power back on. The radio may come on when you start the > car
> > > > sometime later. Anyone heard of this one? Common?
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