Diagnosing poor radio reception

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• Aug 5, 2019

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Hi,

I've had a few threads about this and left them at various stages. Long story short I get very poor radio reception. I replaced the booster with another one (which I can only presume is a working one) and it is no different.

The next suggestion was to get a cheap aerial and plug that in and see if it makes any difference.

Where would I plug it in to test?

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Whats diagnostics say?

 

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What diagnostics can I do? I have the Carly for VAG but I don't think that has any diagnostics for the radio.

 

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Have you got any errors on the car pertaining to the radio?

 

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Running what diagnostics what I can run, there's nothing to do with the radio flagging up.

 

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Strange, glass issue maybe if no antenna connection issues

 

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Is there a specific reader I need to read any radio errors? I've used the Carly just now and there are no errors. Would that have shown any radio issues?


If it is a glass issue how to get it fixed? Could their be a break in the antenna?​

 

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Do you have a dash cam fitted?

 

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no.

Is the antenna the front or rear window?

 

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Carly may need a full license to read errors, you didn’t say if you have this. Depending on your car and equipment you could have up to 3 antenna modules in the rear screen and rear side windows. We have no model or year or spec to work from.
I would run a scan with VCDS (Or full version of Carly) , if there are any antenna issues it should report them.

 

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JohnS3 said:

Carly may need a full license to read errors, you didn’t say if you have this. Depending on your car and equipment you could have up to 3 antenna modules in the rear screen and rear side windows. We have no model or year or spec to work from.
I would run a scan with VCDS (Or full version of Carly) , if there are any antenna issues it should report them.

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Sorry I forgot to mention I have the full version of Carly and the accompanying Bluetooth dongle. That has shown no errors at all to do with the radio.