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My Cruze, a 2014 LT that is certified pre-owned i.e. still under warranty, had great radio reception when I purchased it. It no longer does. I have had the car washed a number of times and have taken the antenna off, cleaned the threads and replaced the antenna - just in case, but it still only picks up the three local stations here.

I Found the reception with the cruze worse than any previous cars I've owned, though you should not have an issue pulling in a station 25-30 miles away. I actually think the radio in my cruze and now sonic is too sensitive, quite often I can pull in other stations from outside my local area broadcasting on the same frequency(tropospheric ducting). The days this occurs i used to think the radio was just getting poor reception, however I realized that static was being caused by another signal being picked up.

If you selct your region from the dropdown on the website below, you can see if there is any known troposheric contidtions in your area. Every single time I've had issues its been caused by this. On the same note this is how I can watch brodcast TV stations some nights from 100+ miles away.
Tropospheric Ducting Forecast for VHF & UHF Radio & TV