Me too. My Grand Ville has only AM radio, but the stations tune in fine. I normally carry an FM radio with me when I drive the car. Yeah, the PDLs and PWs should be fine. They are electric on the Grand Ville as you mentioned. My 69' Caprice has vacuum powered locks, but amazingly they still work fine as well. I also have a 85' Mercedes S-Class, again, with vacuum powered locks, but they still work fine too, as does my windows. Lucky I suppose.
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Originally Posted by michaeld
Tennesseestorm,
Actually, I liked those built-in antennas; you trade a little reception for a lot of hassles. And given the fact that everyone is going to iPods and satellite radios anyways, it's just as well to have the antenna out of the way.
I'm glad that the power door locks on these cars were so good, as I believe I recall John saying that the Grand Ville had them. My old Mercedes has power door locks that have held up pretty well, but they are vacuum operated rather than electric, and IMHO, electric would tend to be both more durable and easier to repair (no vacuum lines, diaphragms, actuators, or that sort of thing). I particularly like your description of "if the power locks fail, they can still operate manually." That is simply an example of good quality redundant engineering.
I'm pretty sure that John said that the car has power windows as well, and he told me that everything worked A-okay. I guess that's a testament to how they built these cars, isn't it?
Question: has anyone installed fuel injection on one of these 455s? How did it go? How much did it improve mileage? What unit did you use? I don't know anything about such a carberator->f.i. install, as I've never done it or even read about it. But it doesn't seem like it would entail too awful much hassle to install.
Mike
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