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how do I turn off the radio in my Freelender 2 ?

Returned from Servicing today by Delivery driver with a blasted radio jazz prog playing and this stupid old woman has forgotten how to turn the radio off

It's a diesel Auto - the one that has 2 large buttons on the steering wheel - each has a central burton and 4 directional arrows - the offside one has OK in the centre and the other one has Mode.

I'm bemused by the Manual and my quick start booklet has errrrrrrrr vanished


Please - pretty please I need help as I'm out of here at 7 tomorrow morning and I do NOT want that nasty noise playing
 
Sadly not that one - that was my 'old' one - but thanks for trying for me

I'll keep looking
 
On my Citroen Grand C4 Picasso you can`t turn off the Radio you just hit "Mute" button.
 
My partner has a Freelander 2 diesel auto but I don't think it has the steering wheel layout you describe. His is an '07, is yours newer? I'm sure all his audio stuff turns on/off on the unit. He's abroad on business so I can't ask him.
 
Simply go to the radio unit and push the left hand knob in - tht'll switch it off. Forget about the Multi function wheel, the arrows can change stations and the + and - control the volume.
 
Until it turns itself on again! ;) Still, at least you know what to do to shut it up now. Mine (in a Discovery) has the occasional habit of resetting the volume on start up to something quite a bit louder than I like first thing in the morning, I think it just likes to remind me who's in charge! :D
 
Don't even suggest that to mine !!

I do NOT like my radio playing - I prefer listening to the conversations of my passengers :D
 
Mr Badger said:
Until it turns itself on again! ;) Still, at least you know what to do to shut it up now. Mine (in a Discovery) has the occasional habit of resetting the volume on start up to something quite a bit louder than I like first thing in the morning, I think it just likes to remind me who's in charge! :D
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There’s almost certainly a menu setting to fix the volume at startup. ;)
 
Phil V said:
There’s almost certainly a menu setting to fix the volume at startup. ;)
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It's supposed to remember where the volume was set when it was turned off, so it comes back on at that level, but once or twice a year it 'forgets' and comes back on quite loud; and to compound the effect, the volume button doesn't respond for two or three seconds after switch on as the vehicle electrics are doing a self-diagnosis check/booting up, so you either have to press the button in to turn the radio off, or keep turning the volume button down until something finally happens! It's a minor and occasional inconvenience so I didn't want someone messing about with the electronics to try to fix it, in case they made a pigs ear of it and either made it worse or upset the electrics and caused several other faults.

That's the problem with modern vehicles where everything is built-in and interconnected, it might stop car radio thieves (as even if they could remove the built in radio it's programmed with the identity of the vehicle and won't work in another one), but if anything goes wrong then you could be in for a big bill to track the fault down and repair it. The joys of modern electronic vehicles. Still, I'd rather have that than have to wait for a couple of minutes until the valves warmed up before I could hear anything, which I believe is what they had to do when car radios first came out!
 
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Byker28i said:
And the sat nav/traffic volume, how much the volume rises when the car gets noisy as speed rises etc
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My car doesn't get noisy when the speed rises, it's a Discovery, so think quiet and refined - well, unless the radio is on too loud! :D ;)
 
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Mr Badger said:
My car doesn't get noisy when the speed rises, it's a Discovery, so think quiet and refined - well, unless the radio is on too loud! :D ;)
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I'm guessing you dont have the 20" wheels then and just wait for the noisy fuel pump issue... :D
 
No, 18" SE wheels with General Grabber AT2 all terrain tyres, the soundproofing is good enough for me not to notice them either. To be honest, I can't see the logic of people fitting a 3 tonne 4x4 with huge wheels and low profile tyres, to my mind it's like putting a rugby player in ballet shoes.

So far the loudest thing has been the screaming handbrake issue (when it needs lubing and adjusting), it did give me a laugh once though; I'd just parked in a farmyard and a border collie sheepdog came charging towards the car barking like mad, I pulled the handbrake button and the car screamed like a pterodactyl, the 'fierce' dog screeched to a stop backpedalling for all it was worth and slinked off with it's tail between its legs looking over its shoulder to make sure it wasn't being followed! Out-barked by a Discovery! :D
 
Pah, just turn the radio up to hide the noise. It's what my wife does (having previously changed disks and pads on the rear of the MX-5)
 
camerassassin said:
Don't even suggest that to mine !!

I do NOT like my radio playing - I prefer listening to the conversations of my passengers :D
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I'd rather have the easily ignored (and it doesn't get shirty when I ignore it!) radio/cd/MP3 than conversation - lets me concentrate on the task in hand better.
 
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