I like music and I like good sound when I’m not listening to the vehicle or the CB. Since currently my only good CBs are in trucks with no antennas, I haven’t had a CB on in a long time. My first Ranger I had factory radios until they stopped replacing them under warranty then I went to a Pioneer because it was the best radio I could afford. Think the factory radio was replaced 4 times.
The factory radio in my 92 worked, but the display was about unreadable (same thing happened to dad’s’89 and 94 trucks). I never tried the tape deck in the 92. Thought about it and I still have some tapes, but I don’t really listen to the music that’s on them anymore. Technically I could have re-recorded a few since I still have a real stereo system in the house. I never made the effort though.
I don’t know if I have any other factory radios around here. There may be one in my 89 parts truck (what’s left of it) and I may or may not have one or two single DIN ones in my shed somewhere (I was hoping to get that cleaned out and organized this spring but here we are).
Green Ranger has a Boss double DIN DVD player. It was there when I got the truck. Choptop has a Boss radio/media player thing. It will do radio, Bluetooth, or USB stick. Both… work… sort of. They have some strange tendencies. Randomly forgetting settings, randomly freezing up or switching to Bluetooth pairing. Enough to be annoying but not enough to do anything about just yet.
F-150 is on its second Pioneer. I’m pretty sure the first one was cooked by the shoddy wiring that the previous owner did. When it started acting up I pulled it and found the wiring mess. I fixed it but the radio only got worse from that point. I put a new Pioneer in (CD and USB, I stuck a USB stick in and didn’t look back) plus replaced all the speakers with Rockford Fosgate.
88 has a Pioneer that I put in. I don’t remember what was in it when I bought it. 94 still has the factory radio but that may change when I get it fixed.
