HIDs causing radio signal interference

[Sir John]

Sooooo, I have installed a HID kit in my ’14 Sport. I’ve noticed that my radio signal is weak (mildly static) when I’m about 40-50 miles away from the city (Buffalo, NY) and it never used to be that way before. So today, when I dropped the kids off at school (I’m farthest away from the radio stations), it hit me…’turn off the HIDs’. When I did, bam!...radio is clear as a bell. Then I turn them back on, after about 3-5 seconds, it gets mildly static again….Damnit. I don’t get why this is happening to me and I haven’t heard anyone else complain about it. I don’t have the ballast and canbus adapter in the projector housing. I have the passenger side ballast attached to the plastic right before the air intake opening. For some reason, the HIDs are causing some sort of interference with the radio signal. I thought these ballasts would be shielded…no? It doesn’t appear to affect anything else…my SAT signal is fine, etc. Other than just removing them (not going to happen), does anyone have any ideas?? Thanks in advance.

It figures, if there’s going to be any issues, then it will happen to me!...lol.

 

[BlackRamHemi]

I found the same thing,
but thought it was because of my cheap wally world rubber stubby antenna.


I don't venture very far out of town much so its not often an issue,
I usually play my own music when I'm on a road trip out of town.

 

[0212353]

I've seen it a handful of times.........

Typically on:
trucks (no clue why)
aftermarket radio equipped

But.....grounding is key. Which is fun when its on a canbus setup, as its not like you are grounding them. In those rare cases, sometimes these little boogers fix it - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...age_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=viglink21284-20

Not too many times that I see this though!

 

[Sir John]

I've seen it a handful of times.........

Typically on:
trucks (no clue why)
aftermarket radio equipped

But.....grounding is key. Which is fun when its on a canbus setup, as its not like you are grounding them. In those rare cases, sometimes these little boogers fix it - Amazon.com: Bluecell Pack of 5 Magnetic Ferrite Core Cord RFI EMI Noise Suppressor Cable Clip (13mm inner diameter): Electronics

Not too many times that I see this though!

Thanks. I forgot about those guys. I'll give it a try. For whatever it matters, I have the oem 8.4AN unit.

 

[Sir John]

I found the same thing,
but thought it was because of my cheap wally world rubber stubby antenna.


I don't venture very far out of town much so its not often an issue,
I usually play my own music when I'm on a road trip out of town.

Yeah, it's not a huge deal. When I drive 10 miles closer to the city (Buffalo), my signal clears up. I've started listening to my SAT lately anyways, plus, like you, I have a 16gb flash drive loaded with about 300 albums. It's just sometimes I listen to the local radio for traffic in my commute.

 

[BlownGP]

Mine does this too, but it's only bad with certain stations