Hello again, I hope everyones Holiday was great, pleasant and relaxing.
Hoping the new year brings many smiles and much relaxing.

Now, to my radio/speaker issue.
I have a 89 240 with stock radio which I am going to keep.
Lately the speakers have been coming on and off for no apparent reason.
But, when I turn the radio off and then on right away the speakers are
normal for a while then do it again. The driver side speaker did it more
often so I had the tuner turned to the passenger side speaker, but lately
it is doing it often also.

Could it be the amp. that is going out?

I suspect it is wiring, but what gets me is that it resumes normally when
switched off and on again, that makes me think it is the not wiring. I usually
think that wiring issues will be more likely when hitting bumps or on turns
but this happens just whenever it wants too.

The thing is that I don't want to open up the amp. area and/or pull the radio
out if it is more likely the other that is causing the problem.

Thanks in advance,
Joseph Segura in New Mexico

I had similar problems. Only it was everything that would fade away to nothing . Not just one speaker. It was the amp and the radio in my case. When I turned the radio on it would burp loudly in the front speakers signalling a shorted amp. I replaced the amp. Wrecker charge me $30 for the amp and it cured the problem. Then I started losing FM only. I took the radio apart and found all the ground solders on the board were bad. I fixed some of them but it continued. I bought another radio from the wreckers. He ripped me off again and charged me $40 and I have a functioning crappy radio again. For $20 more I should have thrown it all away and bought a cheap CD player. Santa brought me one this year. Yay
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73 ES, 91 240, 98 S90

Kenner,
Santa was good to you.
I want to keep original and just play mp3 through the cassette deck.
I guess I will open up the amp area first, I have an extra amp that
I got with a radio at the recycling yard.
If anyone knows any better ideas, please do let me know.
Joseph in New Mexico

tHIS EXACT SCENARIO HAPPENED ON MY '89. tEH cr714 RADIO
Soory about CAPS LOCK

I took the radio appart and after removing the Cassette section out, there is a connector in the back where the two Circuit boards connect. There was a bad connection at the connector. flex the circuit board and it played, let it go and nothing.

After soldering the connectors direct, it worked for a month, then pooped again. I finally went with a cheapy replacement that plays so much nicer then the Stock one ever did.
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'75 Jeep CJ5 345Hp ChevyPwrd, two motorcycles, '85 Pickup: The '89 Volvo is the newest vehicle I own. it wasn't Volvos safety , it was Longevity that sold me http://home.no.net/ebrox/Tony's%20cars.htm

Same thing happened to me, do yourself a favor and replace it with a nice new modern CD/radio. Dan

replaced mine with a nice kenwood do it all cd sirius mp3 capable with remote for 99 bucks free install. sure it will only last a few years though