Mrs bought herself a dab radio but her car doesn't have a dab antenna ...this is the back of her radio and this is what I've seen ...is this the right thing for job guys .

 

Yes it is

 

Thanks mate ..ill tell her to get one .

 

You need to follow the fitting instructions quite carefully. There is a Earth lead that glues to the window pillar and the aerial needs to be away from heated screen element and use the cleaning pad that comes with it.

 

CheeRs for the heads up ..do you know how the A pillar trims come off the Audi TT ?

 

Yes, you pull the door trim rubber off and then the door pillars pop off, watch it though as the plastic fittings have gone brittle on mine and 2 broke, I am going to tiger seal them back together as it rattles a bit now (I am sure the Roadster is worse though). On the Roadster the pillar trims lock in to a plastic cover with the sun visors in, I had to pop off a corner to get the pillar off.

Also, one odd thing was that the tt has a different wiring to normal in that the yellow was switched live and red was perm so check that with a test light. Mine has Bose but it is just a normal blue remote on wire.

 

I fitted a dab radio in my mk4 golf got an eBay 30 odd quid aerial and couldn’t pick up shit lol. Went to a local stereo specialist and he said the aerial I’ve used will work as an fm aerial but be useless as a dab one. Got his cheapest which was 130 quid now it works spot on

 

I have to agree with Andy most dab aerials are rubbish even the ones that sony provide.

best aerial is one that converts the original to dab via a splitter or a dedicated dab external aerial.

I am having trouble finding something suitable for the saff.

 

CheeRs mate thought so ..i too have the red and yellow live and switched live ..ill get it sorted tomorrow .

 

Also make sure whichever one you choose that its connected to a switched live not the antenna blue wire as this is only live when normal radio is on not dab.

Hope it works i am on my 3rd aerial with no luck.

 

Thanks mate ..yea I'll make sure ..mate of mine has the same antenna in his Honda and it works a treat so fingers crossed.

 

Got that aerial on my camper, works a treat

 

Sound mate ..thanks for that ..my mates honda works with it aswell

 

I’m not sure what make I fitted but it’s a proper bee sting dab aerial. Correct plug on it to plug into the stereo. Had to run a live to it as well

 

I have tried one of those splitter types with amp which uses the original focus aerial. it worked ok when i tuned it in bit now it dont will have to check connection.

Thinking i might try it on the saff but disconnect the ford amp.

 

I had one of those stick on aerials in an old car, it was alright, certainly no where near as good as a factory fit dab aerial but good enough. I did look in to changing it for a powered external dab aerial but decided to buy a new car already with dab instead

 

Well had a result of a day ..took me an hour to fit ..and works fantastic..its so much clearer and bass over the normal tuner ..well worth the 12 Quid

 

Good news, the 2 kenwoods I bought off 1 pd on here both came with stick on aerials and they seem to work a treat. I think the one in the TT works better than my new shape Range Rover one but I also struggle with mobile phone in that and someone said it was the double glazing and all the heated screens.

 

I've used a new alpine head unit and the 12 quid dab antenna mounted in the passenger top corner of the front screen its made a right difference .

 

Thats really good news best i get one of those.

 

Well worth a try mate ..

 

I thought about doing DAB in my ESRT. I'd rather not mount the aerial onto the screen. I'd rather have it in the glove box or under the dash.

 

I don't think it would work of not on the glass.

 

You need somewhere to stick the earth cable aswell ..i don't think it's with enough to reach over with sunscreen rubber

 

We use dension antenna, at work. I always test them before stick it on the window, they work, but the best signal is when they are grounded at the a-pillar an stick on window. We mounting alot of these, as the fm band, is closed here in Norway

 

Same as what i did tested it before I stuck it all down to the A pillar.