Kenwood stock radio

I'm having similar issues with mine. The first 30 minutes to an hour after getting the truck, mine worked perfect. Then out of the blue it stopped working and says no signal. Haven't been able to get it to work since. Have you had any luck with yours? I'd goto the dealer but everyone around here is backed up several days. I can't afford that much downtime just to swap radios.

 

mine has been going in and out like regular radio. dose any one have a fix for it yet?

 

havin same problem has there been a fix found yet?

 

I bought a new antenna, plugged it into radio, still no luck. Borrowed a friends portable xm radio and plugged in the trucks antenna and it worked fine. For some reason the Kenworth deck isnt recognizing the antenna. I bought a new kenWOOD radio that was XM ready. Also bought the car tuner thing that sits behind it. Then plugged in the stock truck antenna and it works fine. The radio itself was bad. Antenna was fine. Ateast i could use the stock antenna and dont have an extra one hanging off the truck.

The radio tuner thingy is 40 bucks and the a kenwood radio s roughtly 160 depending on model. Mine has blue tooth and a bunch of other stuff. I think the cheapest xm ready i saw at wall mart was 120ish. You still need the tuner that plugs in behind it in your dash. I can now use my kenwood radio to control my xm and its way better then the stock one.

 

can you supply model numbers please

 

Just buy any of the "xm ready" models from kenwood. The tuner unit that sit behind is sold by the same place as the radio. Dont know the model, but it says "tuner for xm ready radios".

I had to splice some wires since the plug is different. I believe JVC makes a direct replacement, but those dont have bluetooth and all the extras.

 

I havent picked my truck up yet so my radio might not be all buggy. I just in case someone wanted something that was guaranteed to wrk

 

I have four Kenworth trucks and the only model I am having trouble with is the one 2016 T680. When I go down the road if there are any tree's I lose my signal. The truck has 32,000 miles so I took it back to Kenworth MHC in South Dallas. They checked radio and took it on a road test on I 20 and could not duplicate the problem. As I earlier mentioned it only does it when there are tree's on the side of the interstate. Unfortunately there are no trees in South Dallas on Interstate 20. The night service manager said since they can not find the problem. I need to pay a cash ticket to get my truck back. You would think after spending 150,000 on a truck you could get a working radio? To add insult to injury I have to pay for there ignorance in fixing a radio that is under warranty. I wonder is Kenworth MHC so big they have forgotten how to treat customers?

 

The antenna is mounted in the roof instead of out in the open.
I put on an aftermarket antenna and mounted it on the mirror bracket.
Kenworth knows about this problem and has offered to remount the antenna on the outside of the roof.
I didn't want them drilling holes in my roof so I told them I would handle it myself.