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My wife just bought an 06 Yukon Denali with a GM. factory AM-FM-XM-cassette-CD sound system. As we drove the car home from Cleveland to Detroit we listened to wonderful FM reception. Halfway home we changed to AM, only to find a Deep Buzzing sound in both the left and right channels. We switched to XM to find the same buzzing, but only in the right channel, the left was fine. I figured the radio had issues. We drove home listening to FM and the next morning I went out to the car, turned on the radio without the engine running, and everything worked great, AM, FM, and XM. I started te engine and the AM and FM sounded great but the XM had a background whining noise in the right channel only. I figured that the XM tuner had an output shielding problem into the main radio amplifier. A pain, but probably correctible! I started driving the car with the AM band on and a loud deep clicking stared coming out of both the left and right speakers, increasing in frequency as the wheels turned faster, At 10 mph the clicking turned into a deep buzz with no hint of a radio. I switched to XM and the same noise came out of the right speakers but not the left. Finally, I switched to FM and everything was perfectly clear. The unwanted noise was directly related to the RPMs of the wheels, not the RPMs of the engine. I am pretty sure the original whining noise in the right channel of the XM tuner is a shielding problem but how the turning of the wheels could knock out both channels of the AM radio and only the right channel of the XM radio is way beyond me. If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it. In all of my experience in diagnosing interference and reception, I have never seen, or heard of, the vehicle's drive train being an issue. I almost think this thing is haunted


