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Interesting..Hmmmm...I've had 2 Impallas and a Vette have reception problems. Sounds like a reasonable explanation. :spit

It's straight up truth from a GM tech specialist. :lol I was actually one of the first ones to find it and call GM Techline about it. They released a bulletin weeks later after more research. I've never run across a vette with this personally, but the rest of them were like this.

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You answered your own question. Unless you'd rather go Huper for their Ceramic line or F1 for Pinnacle and pay A LOT more for the cost of the film. Stick with the AT, you'll do fine with the install.

Make sure rear glas is saturated with water and ample slip solution. Place film and hand squeegee film as flat as possible. Take your time and squeegee - once down do aggressive blue max stroke.

Thanks a million for the great advice, skeeter. If it's true what you say about the HO film, then I'll stick with the LLumastar AT. Plus from what Devil said, HO may cause bad reception anyway. I guess non-metallic is the way to go for such a back glass. :spit

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Your are pretty much right TS. The contributing factor in those will be the fact they have multiple service bulletins out on the rear defroster having "micro-arching" between the lines. This is typically only noticed when the customer uses the defroster by static inthe radio.

Had a guy in tint class a few months back show me this phenomena with his BMW... turn the defrost on and the radio gets static. :evileye

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I have a 2-way radio antenna on my truck for my radio's and scanner. I tied my FM radio into it after it was installed and removed the factory on my truck fender. Cleaner look and sound. Now I don't pick up ignition noise from nearby vehicles and the big roof ground plane and extra 3 ft height give me better reception. Plus I have a higher end Alpine to help out.

But I don't think any of these people did much in researching putting high current wires and a receiving antenna nearby each other. especially parallel. seems like either a brain took a :evileye that day or they were figuring on no one using am/fm much again. :evileye

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Your are pretty much right TS.  The contributing factor in those will be the fact they have multiple service bulletins out on the rear defroster having "micro-arching" between the lines.  This is typically only noticed when the customer uses the defroster by static inthe radio.

Had a guy in tint class a few months back show me this phenomena with his BMW... turn the defrost on and the radio gets static. :lol6

add the toyota avalon to this list, defroster on, radio off.

also saw some tech bulletins from GM on the problems that pontiac is having with

integrated antenna's in there passenger cars.

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