so, my codes tell me that i should have a UT4 push button radio like this one...



when i got the car it had a similar radio but it has the two *****. i heard there was some kind of recall. i'm trying to firgure out which one to keep in the car.

I have no knowledge of a recall, but mine's a 1987, so I can't say about your 1985. But if you have a touch control radio in your possession, definitely keep it. You're not likely to find one anywhere ever again. The EQ radios with the ***** are findable, but not the ones with all touch controls.

And that might be the reason your car had the one with *****. Maybe, for whatever reason, that particular touch control radio in that car needed replacing, and it's likely that the only thing similar that the owner(or dealer) could find to replace it with was one with *****.

Just my , but I'd guess the reason you don't have touch controls in your car has more to do with the lack of an available replacement rather than a recall.

My 87 Also SHOULD Have had that radio, it has the 2 *****. My friends 86 ALSO should have had the radio but it was replaced due to an Amplifier problem or something, so it too was replaced.

I think there were some problems with that particular model, According to my friend with the 86 (he bought it new in 1986) it sounded AWESOME but the replacement sounds like crap in comparison.

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thanks for the help!! i got a feeling that the push button radios had allot of problems. i can't find one anywhere.

The only problem I've ever had with mine was the cassette mechanism, which I've had repaired a few times. But from what the local repair shop told me, that's common with all Delco cassette radios, not specifically to the touch control models.

It's interesting, though, that okfoz's car and mine were produced at the same plant(Norwood) at about the same time(12/'86 for mine), and my car got its correct touch control radio, yet his car did not. So there was apparently a lack of availability. But was that due to problems or simply a lack of production due to a lack of requests/orders?

Many dealers tended to NOT order high-end, high-cost radio options, even no radio at all, because they figured most people would be replacing them with aftermarket radios anyway. So given that the touch control radio was the top-of-the-line, highest priced radio option, it would've definitely been the least requested/ordered radio option. So problems or not, it was prolly the least produced radio, so it was also the most likely to have been the first to be dropped from the lineup... and therefore, now the hardest to find.

I've even talked to M and R Electronics about this radio. He never said anything about any problems, just that not even he ever runs across any of them. So luck would be about the only way to come across one.

I have a few times in junkyards, mostly in Fieros. Unfortunately, the faces were damaged(as is the case most of the time if the radios are still there). And since I didn't think these were even restoreable, I didn't take them.

thanks for the info!!!!

I think lafireboyd is right. It was always a cost issue back in those days GM stereo upgrades were pricey for what you really got. I remember my 84 having a top of the line am/fm cassette withe the equalizer and subwoofer system .... needless to say it was all replaced a year after buying the car since better radio systems were out there. Me personally if I were to ever order a GM car I would just get the base radio and sell it for 10 bucks and use the money towards a better one LOL.

I think GM only added this radio for appeal is all however not many were order due to the price is all.

I've got five or six of them but none of the cassette players work. That's the only problem I've seen with them.

Check the interior parts classified board. There's one up for sale today.

sorry to dig up this dinosaur of a thread, but does anyone know the delco part# for ut4 rpo?

I had one in my 86 TA I ordered from the factory. also had the stock subwoofers. great sound and no problems. miss that car. obviously...nick name

What is the best place to find one of these now? Maybe, if we had the actual delco part number it would make it better for hunting them down.

Hello, the photo of the UT4 radio posted by OP is from some cataloque or magazine maybe? Anybody knows what it is?. I'd like to see other delco models from there...

I would think that 1) since his car is a 1985 that 2) the pic is from a Dealer Brochure booklet... I would think it that being page 36 that it would be the all model booklet.

Not sure, but I believe that this may be one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1985-Pontiac-Full-Line-Dealer-Sales-Brochure-/200435743589?pt=Motors_Manuals_Literature&hash=item2eaae6bb65&vxp=mtr
John

Found one of these radios and this thread was the first thing that google came up with when I punched in "delco push button cassette" haha

What years were they available?

I dont know but in 85 I ordered my 86 with one.. I was like one of the few who didnt have ***** Loved it. I also had the stock subs with it. dealers didnt order them. kinda like the areo wing on the 95. it was an option in 85 but became standard in 86. 85s with them were rare