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[piggs]

 Does any know how to marry 2007 radio to a 2000 Road Glide
Piggs

[FrankD]

I wanted to do the same thing and was told by my local dealership that it could not be done because the wiring harnesses are totally different.
FrankD

[Twolanerider]

They are (sort of) right, but for the wrong reasons.  The harness connection to the radio is the same from 98 up.  The Harmon Kardon radio would plug in to your bike.  It would also play.  It's got software differences internally, however, that would also make it give noises you don't want.

To make it work you'd have to hack the radio.  That hack would change with each firmware revision within the radio.  Those have changed frequently.  What you're thinking about has been done.  But it's really not worth the hassle.  Especially when other options with the "retro kits" can give you radios with far more capability for less money and a LOT less time.

[piggs]

 Thank You, The local dealer can not find the problem I have with the radio. When the bike is hot, the radio cut's in and out.(pop)
Radio Sound said the amp inside the the radio is getting too hot. When I unplug the stator the problem go's away..

Piggs

[Twolanerider]

Piggs, Radio Sound had a decent reputation for repairs.  It was a flat rate cost if I remember correctly.  Whether you'd get hosed or not depends entirely on your failure that way.  But if it's an amp you're probably being treated fairly.

If you decide, however, to go to some other radio contact HD-Dude here on this site.  He's a dealer for aftermarket retrofit conversion kits and can offer a discount better than buying from the company's direct.  The kits make many aftermarket radios a plug in replacement keeping all your handlebar controls in tact.  I've installed a couple of them for friends in the area here.  Not a bad setup if you don't mind going to an aftermarket radio.

Radio Sounds flat rate fee would be your cheapest repair.  The aftermarket retrofit would be next.  The new Harmon Kardon radio as a retrofit would be the most expensive and the most difficult.  Don't start that one unless you can read the code in the radio, understand it, rewrite it, and write it back to the radio.

[piggs]

Twolanerider, what do you mean" reading code "?

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Hacking the HK radio is really not the issue but in the main wiring harnes is a "main" bus link that the ditgal tech works with and allows the HK radio to change it's firmware setting. SO you canot refit the newer radio in your before bike. I suggest you contact the folks above with an email or phone call and describ your fault and see whatthey suggest- it may not cost as much as you think unless you check.

[Twolanerider]

Hacking the HK radio is really not the issue but in the main wiring harnes is a "main" bus link that the ditgal tech works with and allows the HK radio to change it's firmware setting. SO you canot refit the newer radio in your before bike. I suggest you contact the folks above with an email or phone call and describ your fault and see whatthey suggest- it may not cost as much as you think unless you check.

You can actually get around that Wayne.  The physical connection is the same.  Get the right changes made to the code in the radio and it'll work just fine.  Everything will work.  It'll do so without changing a thing elsewhere on the bike. 

The difficulty to doing it any quantity is that the change is very specific to the base firmware in radio and they update those with regularity.  So a fix for one radio isn't right for another radio produced a few months later.  It was worth the hassle to do once.  But it's not worth the hassle to do repetitively.

[SilvrBulet]

The radio on my '01 SERG does the same thing where it will cut out when it gets hot.  Doesn't matter what band (AM, WB, FM or CD).  I actually thought RoadSound's offer to repair/replace for $135 when I contacted them sounded pretty fair.  Let us know which direction you go and how it works out because I'm not far behind you in taking some action on mine.

Good luck,

Blue

[110tHunDer]

 
Another option instead of sending your cassette unit back to Radio Sound is to keep an eye on eBay for a later model CD unit.  That'd be plug-n-play and no down time.  A little more costly maybe, but it would bring the SERGs audio technology a little more up to date.

[piggs]

buying or replacing the radio might not correct the issue..........

[piggs]

 

Problem solved, local HD finaly changed the stator and the radio. HHMMMMMM.

[SilvrBulet]

Piggs, sorry to be getting back into this thread late but please elaborate on the changing of the stator and radio.  Was it concluded that the radio's amp was bad?  I have exactly the same problem (cuts out when hot) but it hasn't missed a beat since the weather cooled down.

Blue

[Puzzled]

I'll chime in and add my two cents.

My 01 radio was doing as has been described, cutting out when hot. I discovered it was the amp getting hot. When I turned the internal amp down and would keep the volume down it would play longer. I eventually sent it back for repair. While out for repair I installed an aftermarket radio so the OEM one sent on the shelf for two years. Last year my good radio had to go in for repair and I installed the OEM radio while waiting. Yep that was the problem, the amp. The radio worked just fine. Almost to the point I wanted to leave it installed.

[SilvrBulet]

Thanks for the confirmation on the bad amp Puzzled.  Guess a date with Radio Sound is in my future 

Blue