Anyone located and reattached their ground, or made a new one? What screw does it go under? What would I connect it to? Could I use lamp wire? That's all I have lying around..

I have three plastic connectors, a cd changer connector and an antenna connected, but no obvious ground. A flashlight in the hole reveals no obvious loose unconnected wires.

Guy at Roverville diagnosed the intermittent buzzing as ground issue. Well, i don't see one so that make sense.

Anyone have a picture? That would really help. I'm guessing McGyver would have this figured out by now..

 

welcome to Land Rover Radio World, marginal reception under the best of conditions. Phil

 

I know right? Just turn it off.

 

I had to run a new ground. I ran it to under the drivers side panel, under the steering wheel(where the fuse box is). I found a screw in there that was grounded.

 

What if I ran a wire from the back of the radio under a screw to a screw in my new steel floor pans? Would that ground it? The direct tv ground in my back yard just goes to the hose spiget below. Is that not the same concept?

 

the ground terminal on your battery goes a very short distance and then gets bolted directly to the frame of the truck, the idea behind this is that all metal touching the frame of the truck (ie. the body) is "ground" noise gets introduced into the system when the ground at the battery and the ground at the radio are different (ground strength gets weaker or lost) this can happen for a handful of reasons, the biggest being paint, rust, welds, and corrosion, all of which are on your truck (well corrosion is on a lot of vehicles, maybe not yours) generally a couple of these things wont cause too much loss of ground but over time as these elements become worse your factory grounds start to weaken. I would suggest getting a wire brush (most dollar stores have them) and scraping a small spot of paint away (maybe the size of a quarter) somewhere on the transmission hump (beneath the radio and to the side of your passengers feet you can pull back the carpet, that's a good spot) then get a self tapping screw and screw it halfway in, then strip back some of your lamp cord and wrap it around the screw and tighten it the rest of the way down. then take the other end of your cord and attach it to the ground wire on the back of the radio (it's pretty easy to run a wire up from there), don't cut the factory ground wire just connect to it to strengthen it. if you are not sure which wire is the ground let us know and either someone who knows off the top of there head for your year will chime in or I will look it up when I have some time.

hope this helps!