uberwagon

Just purchased an '88 300TE with no manuals. How do you program the presets on the Becker Grand Prix radio/cassette deck? I've tried just holding down the preset button (which worked on my past few radios) plus various button combinations, some of which caused unusual things to display. But never got one of the presets to change.

Thanks,
UW

scorchi0

Is it the Becker with the rubber bands for tone and manual tuning controls? Or the usual 10 buttons across the top design?

Either way, it should be a case of pressing and holding. With the rubber band type radio, you press the button beyond the position that it normally sits in...

hope that helps

Trent

uberwagon

I'm not sure what you mean by "rubber band". It has preset buttons along the top. It has a digital display and no knobs. There is a bar on the left that you push up and down for volume and a similar bar on the right for seek/scan. Below the bar on the right are the up and down manual tuning buttons (that go incredibly slow).

UW

scorchi0

yep i know the radio...
if you press and hold the presets like you said before it should work. I think if you press and hold the preset, the screen may go blank and the sound cuts out for a second or so, after that release the button and the preset is stored

Trent

uberwagon

Trent,
You were right. What was confusing me was when you first press the preset button it actually goes to the preset station. If you keep holding it, it then switches back to the station you were listening to and makes that the preset. The radio in my Miata doesn't change to the preset station until you release the button so if you're reprogramming, it stays on the station you are listening to.

Anyway, thanks for sticking with me on this. Those slow tuning buttons were driving me nuts.

UW

scorchi0

haha, thats what we're all here for

anyway, good to hear you got it going, those confusing germans like doing things a little (sometimes a lot) different from everyone else...

Trent