The reception of the standard head unit is much worse than that of the headunit in my wife's Passat.
Any ideas aerial or headunit?

Was this the factory fit?

There is a known "gotya" with MY01+ that means you need to connect the external aerial/amp turn on lead to the ISO connector if it's a replacement, otherwise the active aerial doesn't power up.

If it's original, erm... It shouldn't be *that* bad.

Suppose I am just very picky 'cos it is the original. Maybe I should try selling it and put in that Nakamichi I have been eyeing for such a long time. At least it has RDS as well as RCA's.

[Edited by oradba69 - 7/26/2002 12:00:02 PM]

Chiark

Could you elaborate a little more plse.

Replaced my double din and reception noticeably worse than before !

Russel,

Your head unit will have an "external remote turn-on", or "aerial trigger", or "amp turn-on" or something like that. Most times this is not connected into the ISO block despite there being a place in the ISO block defined for it.

The MY01+ has an aerial in the back windscreen IIRC, and this needs turning on.

This should be in the FAQ. I'll check, and if it ain't I'll search and add it.

Sorry my MY01 still has the normal whip aerial in the A pillar, in SA the window Aerial was only introduced from the MY02 model.

Even more confused now

Presumably there is a remote eleccy aerial wire and also a remote amp turn on wire on my h/unit. Which one is needed to turn on the aerial ? either ?

Thanks