Sat Nav aerial

[Duffy]

It's not my week.

My sat nav decided to throw a wobbler and decide it's a long way from where we'd appear to actually be (doing the whole looking out of the window thing).

VCDS is showing an open circuit to the aerial, anybody been here before before I try to access the aerial and wiring?

Thanks!

[Adrian E]

Two options - try to figure out whether the fault is the wiring to the boot mounted receiver, or the puck on the bootlid itself, or remove the sat nav unit and plug a GPS receiver into the back of the unit and stuff it somewhere behind the nav unit. If nothing else the latter rules out any headunit issues.

I gather water can sometimes get into the boot mounted puck, but more likely the wiring has got tired and is cracked somewhere around the boot lid

[Duffy]

It's a D4 with a roof mounted aerial and accessing the aerial without collateral damage on the trim looks challenging.

[Duffy]

Spoke with my friendly Audi parts man, range wide problem with water penetration into roof mounted/external aerials rendering them useless. Spookily enough they easy to get from UK stock (he had 10 for A6's sitting on a shelf) £102 inc vat and postage so not an outrageous price.

[Adrian E]

D'oh! I replied assuming it was a D2

[IT]

If its such a common issue on a car that's only a year out of warranty its a shame they don't show a bit of goodwill and get it sorted for you....