# Saturn Aura Radio buttons intermittently work

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/saturn-aura-radio-buttons-intermittently-work/82082>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** aura, saturn\
**Created:** [November 5, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saturn-aura-radio-buttons-intermittently-work/82082 "2013-11-05T01:43:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![momaimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@momaimp](https://community.cartalk.com/u/momaimp)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saturn-aura-radio-buttons-intermittently-work/82082/1 "2013-11-05T01:43:12Z")

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Anyone else have problems with their radio buttons sometimes working, sometimes not? I’m wondering if I need to “pop off” the buttons and clean contacts or if I’m going to have to replace the radio. This is in a 2008 Saturn Aura, but I’m sure this radio is in other GM cars.

Thanks for any help you can give.

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**Author:** ![DrRocket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/drrocket/32/2603_2.png) [@DrRocket](https://community.cartalk.com/u/DrRocket)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 5:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saturn-aura-radio-buttons-intermittently-work/82082/2 "2013-11-05T05:35:24Z")

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My son and his wife own one of these, and were having the same problems. Eventually, they quite working altogether. I tried contact cleaner but it didn’t do any good, and they ended up buying a new radio on sale from Best Buy and having that installed. No problems since.

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**Author:** ![missileman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/missileman/32/1366_2.png) [@missileman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/missileman)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saturn-aura-radio-buttons-intermittently-work/82082/3 "2013-11-05T19:30:15Z")

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I would just buy a new aftermarket radio. Radios have been UTR (Uneconomical to Repair) for many, many years so when they fail…just throw them away.

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**Author:** ![momaimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@momaimp](https://community.cartalk.com/u/momaimp)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saturn-aura-radio-buttons-intermittently-work/82082/4 "2013-11-12T02:33:26Z")

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Hmmm. I was afraid of that.