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Old 4th March 2014, 06:43 AM
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Frosty morning today revealed that top 4 lines (area where the antennas are) do not warm up when rear window heater is on. Should they? Also left/passenger side section of 6th line from the bottom edge is dead.
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Old 4th March 2014, 12:47 PM
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I set my alarm to check mine in the morning.
Will try and get a photo.
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Old 4th March 2014, 01:30 PM
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I set my alarm to check mine in the morning.
Will try and get a photo.
Wow.. thanks, much appreciated
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Old 5th March 2014, 04:32 PM
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I am sorry to report that at 7:30 there was only a bit of frost on the windscreen and just condensation at the back window, but will keep my eye open, but this week looks too warm.
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Old 5th March 2014, 04:47 PM
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In my area it was definitely frosty, so I checked mine.
It's a D2, not D3, and just the top 2 lines are not heated - presumably aerials?
All the rest was definitely working right across.
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Old 6th March 2014, 06:57 AM
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Thanks guys. I found this thread relating to D2:

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/archive/i...hp?t-2550.html

So I am thinking the dead section on the passenger side may be causing it. I will check if it can be fixed.
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Old 9th March 2014, 06:29 PM
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I was able to fix the dead section with the Granville repair kit, and the interference is now gone!! Too early to say if the reception has improved, although I still don't have DAB reception at home...
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Old 10th March 2014, 09:41 AM
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I was able to fix the dead section with the Granville repair kit, and the interference is now gone!! Too early to say if the reception has improved, although I still don't have DAB reception at home...
Nice one! I remember those.
I recently found my Griffin USB cigar lighter charger also causes DAB interference which gets worse when when charging something.
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Old 12th April 2014, 07:37 AM
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The reception didn't really improve after repairing the heating element - although the interference disappeared.

I have now tested the DAB-radio with an external aerial and the reception is much better. So I wonder if the original aerial is just very bad or if there is a fault in my system somewhere. There are no fault codes, but I'm still not sure if the amplifier works as it should.
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Old 15th September 2014, 03:29 PM
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I finally bit the bullet and bought a new amplifier - that did the trick. DAB now works at my house where it never worked before.
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