Ah yes, the AM radio. Truly of little value in this day and age aside from filling the hole in the dash. For me, priority must be given to sanitation over function. To that end I could just hot-tank the darn thing but I will try a gentler approach and gauge the outcome before resorting to something so drastic.
Before removing it, I did note that the radio does power up and send noise to the speaker (you saw what that looked like) but the tuning knob spins without actually driving the tuning section so I was unable to acquire any radio signals. Disassembled, I can turn the tuning section by hand but, at present, I don't have any other equipment to perform an operational check.
If the radio works but I can't sort out the tuning knob, I will just set it to a strong local station and forget about it for now.
Just a note: my lease is up in 5 months and I intend to move this car to our next home under its own power.
