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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GTC@MSAC" data-source="post: 210746" data-attributes="member: 5548">My experience with the Factory Clarion Radios is probably similar to most.  I you have one that still works today, count yourself lucky, or not, lol!  In most cases I understand that the control module, the part on the outside with the buttons, etc., is pretty flaky and susceptable to damage, or just failure, in one of many ways.  There used to be someone who repaired or rebuilt them, I can't recall who.  Of the 4 I have, only one is 100% functional, and the rest will work sporadically by mixing some of the better working modular components, but not always.  Modern sat-radio or an I-Pod or mp3 player would be the way to go, and just hide it in the fairing, and use the original speaker covers and control face-plate to conceal new speakers and a decent modern music system.I use my face-plate on my Silverwing to conceal-carry, and even kept the speakers and antenna to support the illusion of the radio.  The best feature of my 1981 GL1100 Clarion system, the one that works, is the LED clock, lol!  There isn't hardly anything worth listening to on broadcast radio, at least not in my "neck of the woods".</blockquote>