I recently bought a 2007 Ford focus for the purposes of delivering. I was driving through franklinton aka the bottoms listening to 95.5 and the signal basically stayed solid the whole time. If I were in my 2024 Malibu driving through the same area 95.5 would pretty much be unlistenable. I just wanted to say that I miss the old antennas, and that these new antennas are terrible.
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The radio on my 2007 Ford focus
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I drove a Focus for about nine years and while AM reception, especially at 1000 or below, was garbage for distant signals thanks to some kind of interference within the car, FM reception was great. Among other distant signals, I used to pick up 95.7 from north of Dayton throughout Columbus, except really close to downtown and campus, better than on any other radio I've ever had. It was even listenable out here in the Pickerington area next to 95.5 from only 15~ miles away.
The Honda I drive now, the FM antenna isn't quite that good but the AM is excellent.
The Honda I drive now, the FM antenna isn't quite that good but the AM is excellent.
I had a 2002 Ford Focus and the factory installed unit was the best radio I've ever had for FM reception. I was in the Cleveland area at the time and could regularly DX stations from Pittsburgh, Columbus, Toledo, Erie and small market Meadville-Franklin, PA with ease when no other radio in the house would pick up a thing.
I hope your Focus doesn't have any transmission issues. Some of them did. You never know with auto radios. I had a '98 Mustang with a great radio on both bands. Used to AM dx too. Now I'm driving an '05 Mercury Marquis. It's FM is fantastic, but mediocre on AM. Oh well. The car is fine.
I just had to retire my 2014 Chevrolet Spark because the transmission went out lol the radio on that car also had terrible reception if you got near downtown listening to a rimshot. My guess is car companies don't really care if the antenna isn't the best since a lot of people stream their own music, so they just put in a so-so antenna that's just good enough to do the job.
Streaming certainly wasn't a popular method in 2007. It became much more important once 4G cell networks came out, along with bluetooth in cars.
Funny you mention that because that's what did mine in a few years ago. Transmission control module went bad and in that year or so after the pandemic, supply chain issues meant I couldn't find. Eventually I donated it to charity and bought a Honda Civic from my dad.
One issue was they wouldn't shift properly, or would downshift into low while at highway speeds.
It was the former for me, always upon start when the module acted up. Luckily never happened after I started and was driving.
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