03 Tib Radio--AM Reception

The AM reception on my 03 Tib is practically zilch. OK, I do live in
the boonies, but even when I'm in a city area, the reception is flaky,
especially in hilly terrain.

Is that a common problem, or should I have it checked? The reason that
I ask is that I live some 60 miles from the dealer, and I usually only
take it in for oil filter and stuff that truly affects the warranty.

TIA,

Lakeside

 

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search , this newsgroup,
keyword "radio" will give you a bunch of results with people complaining
about the AM radios on Santa Fe and Elantra models. It's fairly common.

The 2003 Tiburons have a built-in CD player, a good CD-RW drive is less
than $100, blank CD-Rs are $1 each for quality media, Napster is dead
but Overnet/Kazaa Lite/OpenNap are still alive, and iTunes is also
around. Who needs the radio?

 

Who needs the radio?

You can't get weather and real time traffic reports from Kazaa.

 

Pardon my laziness: I know I should have Googled the group, but just
had a blonde moment (I'm married to one, so I DO have an excuse!).

 

Yup, and I even looked into Sirius and XM. They don't carry the kind of
stuff I like. Sirius music offerings are good (get them on Dishnet) but
I do like some talk radio. The hosts carried on either/both just don't
do anything for me.

 

Further....

Guess I should have made that a 2-part question, with the second being:
Anyone have any success getting them repaired or otherwise made to work?

Did indeed do the Google thingy on this group; found LOTS of posts and
read most of them, but not one where anyone said a radio had been
repaired to their satisfaction.

Now, where did I put that lil ole Walkman?