# Can't get car talk in the car!

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/cant-get-car-talk-in-the-car/36539>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** radio\
**Created:** [September 12, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cant-get-car-talk-in-the-car/36539 "2009-09-12T20:44:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![breathless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@breathless](https://community.cartalk.com/u/breathless)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cant-get-car-talk-in-the-car/36539/1 "2009-09-12T20:44:37Z")

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Two days ago, my husband borrowed my Saab 9 3 convertible. When he got home, he complained that none of the admittedly nonintuitive preprogrammed faves worked on the radio, only random XM channels. No AM or FM at all. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cant-get-car-talk-in-the-car/36539/2 "2009-09-12T21:16:23Z")

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Reprogram the radio and see if it happens again. But don’t let Hubby have it in the meantime. I assume that other than the buttons, the radio works.

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**Author:** ![breathless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@breathless](https://community.cartalk.com/u/breathless)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cant-get-car-talk-in-the-car/36539/3 "2009-09-12T21:36:56Z")

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I don’t think I can reprogram, because none of the radio buttons work. All we get is XM, and we only get that by going through the PTY button to select program type then scanning up or down.