# Radio Presets **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Created:** [December 5, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/radio-presets/58334 "2010-12-05T19:55:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marathon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Marathon](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Marathon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/radio-presets/58334/1 "2010-12-05T19:55:32Z")
After this weekend’s show, I imagine a lot of people at used car lots and others are changing the radio presets to Classical stations. Hmmmm … If I go to a used car dealer, and all the radios in the cars have the same stations preset, should I be suspicious? ---
**Author:** ![robobass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@robobass](https://community.cartalk.com/u/robobass)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/radio-presets/58334/2 "2010-12-12T00:59:53Z")
I like the theory that NPR listeners would be gentler to there cars than heavy metal fans, but in my case it certainly doesn’t apply. I was a freelance classical musician in NYC in the '90s, and drove my little Golf from gig to gig about as hard as a car could possibly be driven, always soothed by the pleasant programming of Public Radio. I am probably a statistical outlier, but personally I wouldn’t use radio presets as any useful indicator. ---
**Author:** ![MG-McAnick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mg-mcanick/32/188_2.png) [@MG-McAnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MG-McAnick)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/radio-presets/58334/3 "2010-12-12T15:10:58Z")
It would depend on the number of cars in inventory. If they had 100+ cars, all set alike, that would be suspicious. If they only had ten, and five were alike, it might mean those five were the good ones the dealer drove himself.