mrkabc

Glad to hear! Enjoy the unit, it's awesome!

jwgroovin

Slight thread hijack. is there an easy way to consolidate all 9 pages into one document with pictures included? The tool to display the printable version seems to remove the pics...

akdoggie

I just made it into a pdf for you. Hope that is what you wanted.

jwgroovin

Thanks for taking the time. It seems incomplete though, and may not have grabbed every part of the thread. Not sure I've seen a structured way to grab long threads like this and make them easy to read. The one item under Thread Tools still looks like the only viable option.

jwgroovin

I just went ahead and printed the entire thread using the thread tools, marked up the appropriate sections, and will open the box today and walk through the parts. Here we go... I'll hit up a local car stereo shop to look at speaker options later...

jwgroovin

I've got the car audio tech calling me: EVERYTHING works on the system except the radio tuner. With the stock Shaker1000, it picks up radio fine, with the Raxiom system using the antenna adaptor, not a sound comes through the radio.
Tech thinks either antenna adaptor or the tuner itself is hosed. Any thoughts?

Sabre

My AM/FM reception has been nearly non-existant from the beginning. I put it down to living way out in the sticks and using an aftermarket "shorty" antenna. A couple of times while running through channels in the AM/FM mode, I've heard very faint results on some radio channels. Now, after reading posts about others having AM/FM reception problems, I'm beginning to think that there may be a problem with the radio tuner, rather than my location and the antenna. I guess I need to put the stock antenna back on at some point and see what results I get....or don't get...with it installed. It's not really been an issue with me, as the Sirius XM works perfectly and it's in use 95% of time I'm in the car. I'm not sure that for me, it would even be worth the effort and hassle of taking out the Raxiom unit and putting in a new one, just to get the AM/FM reception.......though it would be nice to know that every function that I paid for, was working properly and as it should be. If I get around to putting the stock antenna back on, I'll post any results....or lack of....that I get.

jwgroovin

The tech said let's check the antenna adapter first. Rosen tech support said ~20 calls a month require a new adapter, it might be quality control. He said very few tuners across the line are defective, especially if all other parts of the unit are working fine. One thing is that the antenna plug on the unit has a central wire similar to that seen in a male coax cable--make sure it didn't get bent trying to put in the antenna adapter.

We tried a regular antenna with the unit, still no reception by the way. I've got a new adapter coming, I'll try that. If that is the problem, I'll work with Rosen and AM to get a new head unit shipped, then I'll put the bad one in the box and return it. I'm not dismantling the entire install because of one defective part!!!

Other than the radio, I am REALLY pleased with the unit.

John

jwgroovin

Note we got reception if we manually pushed the antenna adapter real hard onto the back of the unit's connector. If released we got static. Push it together, reception. So we think the adapter is bad. Might be worth trying, and just ensure the pin inside the antenna adapter receptacle in the unit isn't bent.

Sabre

When I get some time I think I will, at the very least, take off the center stack side panels and see if I can "root around" in there a little. Perhaps the adapter is the culprit and maybe I can either confirm or deny that it is the problem. It is very possible with the huge snake of wires that had to be pushed into the stack as the unit when back in, that something got pulled apart, loosened or misaligned. Thanks for all the info!

Schreibs

Are you experiencing the same low hum that mrkabc mentioned?

Schreibs

Hey All,
Installed the Raxiom unit in my 2005 mustang GT Vert over the last week..... I'm a novice at this and it took me about 3 days to do the work, I'd guess I put about 8 total hours in. The directions are awful as it has been mentioned 1000+ times on this forum. THANK GOD for all of Mrkabc and Sabres posts and detailed instructions. THANKS GUYS!!!!! I was experiencing the same low hum that mrkabc mentioned but it seemed to go away on its own and hasn't returned. Also I never had to hook up the green wire associated with the NAV.


ISSUES...
- the back up camera NO SIGNAL delay when shifting into reverse
- when using the NAV and listening to the radio I can barely hear the NAV voice when it gives instructions....Any ideas???

Other then that the unit looks and operates great. Excellent upgrade to my 05 Stang!!!!!

Sabre

I can help you with the navigation voice volume. I had the same problem and tried looking forever in the settings to increase the nav voice. The solution turns out be pretty simple. Just use the on/off volume ****. When the voice speaks, use the volume **** to increase or decrease the voice volume. It will stay the same from then on...until you change it again. But, you can only change the volume while it's speaking.

jwgroovin

I need to say a little about American Muscle customer service. Two weeks ago, I discovered my unit would not play radio, just static. Everything else worked fine. I called Rosen/Raxiom, who said it's either the antenna cable adapter or the unit itself. One week later, despite promises from Rosen, I never received and still haven't received a replacement adapter. Last Sunday I emailed Alex, our forum AM rep, with the issue. Today, I have fixed the issue. Alex sent me an entire new unit sight unseen, an RMA#, and a return UPS label. The replacement antenna adapter, perhaps a $10 part, was all that was needed to get this system working 100%. Alex took care of everything, got me a replacement unit fast, and held my **** hand the entire way.

Customer service? Let's just say above and beyond. Alex is the man American Muscle, this is a stellar employee delivering stellar customer service. Thank you so much. Now, time to get my bird in the air and listen to some jamming tunes on 100.7 Rock in Westminster MD. See ya!

David.Turner

if no one has answered this yet. format your card to FAT32. NTFS is not supported. I'm using a FAT32 32gig SDcard with 200+ albums and it works fine.
my only complaint is the album art doesn't show up. this same card connected to media player on my pc hasall the album art showing.
dt

David.Turner

has any one figured out how to get the album art to show when using the sd card?

i have tried several image formats and image sizes, with no success..

br,
dt

mrkabc

The hum was a bad head unit. About 2 months ago, the screen started going crazy on its own when it map mode, as if someone was poking the screen on the right hand side.


A phone call to AM and Rosen, both decided that it was a bad screen and the HU needed to be replaced. AM sent me a new one and I swapped out the HU and presto! No more hum!


So far so good with the new HU! 1.5 years in now with this Raxiom unit and I am still very happy with it.


P.S., thank you Schreibs! Glad that Sabre and I were able to help. You would think by now Raxiom would "borrow" the instructions on this forum and update their manual, right? Right? Right??

davelev213

Installed this unit a couple of weeks ago and instantly fell in love with it. After about an 8 hour install (with the help of you guys on here)the unit turned on, camera worked great, navigation, mic, bluetooth all worked the way it should. I was bragging to everyone how great this thing was.....

Well unfortunately a couple of days ago I did hear humming for the 1st time when the unit first turned on when nothing was coming out the speakers yet and earlier today I could not get the unit to turn on. Nothing,blank screen. As much as I like this thing I have read some pretty bad reviews on it as well, so I instantly was like oh no!! when it wouldn't come on. I tried holding the power button in, took the unit back out and checked all the wiring, I thought maybe it blew a fuse but I hooked up my Shaker 500 and it worked fine. So needless to say I am very disappointed, I pulled the head unit all back out, I'm leaving all the wiring for the camera, navigation in for now. I'll call AM on Monday and see what they say. I'm kinda at the point though of wondering if I can trust another unit or should I just get my money back.

As many of you know this thing is no piece of cake to install and have a lot of time invested. I hope I just got a bad one, I am kinda glad it went out this soon though instead of several months from now. I'll keep you updated. Also thanks to all you guys for the great information and detailed instructions. No way I could've got this installed without your help.

davelev213

Update for you. I called AM first thing Monday morning they then gave me Rosen's tech support number. I explained what was going on and to make a long story short it is the black modulator box, the one with the grey foam around it, went bad.

He said 98%of the time that's the problem. It tells the system to turn on, also it tells the system when the car is in reverse. So they are shipping me one ASAP. In the meantime he told me I can take the red ACC wire and splice into the stock grey and yellow wire that's apart of the big main harness and everything will work, the only thing is the camera won't come on when in reverse. I did this and everything is working now. I left the harness easy to get to so that when I do get the new modulator I'll be able to just snap it back in real quick without taking everything back out.

Really impressed with Dan of Rosen and the tech support I received, they are on the West coast so he was on the phone helping me @ 7:30 in the evening my time. He even went and double checked which wire it was that I could splice into on the Mustang and called me back. So fingers crossed I have no more issues.

MadGT

Has anyone installed the unit without having a single issue? I have been following this thread for over a year, and it seem that there's always an issue with this unit--or am I missing something?