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The brown wire is a ground. Brown is the color designating ground so any brown wire you see is a ground. If there is a metal strip connected to the top, bottom or back of the radio that connects to the body to help hold/support the radio then this is a ground as well. Make sure all wire connections are clean. You may want to go to some electronics store, like RadioShack, and get a noise filter. It connects in-line with the radio power and helps to reduce line noise. Also, are you using the proper ignition wires? Good wires, like the stock ones, have a resistor in them to reduce the noise that's generated by them. Toby Erkson air_cooled_nut@pobox.com <-- Please use this address for email '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L, Berg five-speed '75 Porsche 914 1.8L, ORPCA member Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/ >-----Original Message----- >Help! I am having trouble with my stock AM radio. One minute it's >fine, the next it goes to static with ignition noise. ... >A bunch of other folks say it's a bad ground. ...There is no ground wire on the >radio, so I am >figuring that the radio is actually grounded through the >clock, which has >a brown wire connected from it to the chassis under the dash. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/