Hi Folks

Just looking for advice on a third party aerial that will go in an Octavia and attach to the second connector on an MFD3 in the hope that it will improve the truelly awful FM reception. Any thoughts?

Thanks

If you move the aerial connection to the other one, you will get excellent FM reception but at the expense of MW.

I think Blaupunkt offer a diversity antenna.

Something like this

Blaupunkt windscreen aerial 7617495201

Thanks Chaps

I have tried both sockets and the inner of the two is the only one that seems to give me reception, is MW the traffic anoncment?

I saw that antenna earlier and thought that might be the way foward only the connectors may prove to be a little tricky but I think I'll give it a go anyway.

DoooooooH! MW = Medium Wave! Thanks for all the advice, I have switched to the outer socket and reception has improved slightly.

One other small question does the unit auto pause DVD's because so far mine doesn't.

Thanks

The phone will cause the unit to pause DVD/Music playback, don't know what else would.

Well after several hours of trim removal and cable fishing, I got a second aerial working. Thanks to VRS Stu who pointed me in the direction of a suitable aerial. A local Car audio specialist shop managed to get me the bits necessary to manafacture a cable adaptor so that it all connected and the result is very good fm reception and working TMC data.

The test came when I took the car through an FM blackspot on my journey home from work and as reception just began to fail, the unit must have switched to the second aerial as it all suddenly came back to life.

Cost of all this was about £35.00

Thanks for all the advice and help

Hi mate.

Any pics? Where did you place it? Where did you source power from?

Sorry for all the questions but I am in the same boat and it would be nice to see a possible solution.

Did you go for the Bluespot one in the end?

Sorry no pics..... Far too embaressed by my DIY skills to do that I placed the antenna pickup just in front of the rearview mirror on the drivers side and the actual aerial elements come out either side running parallel to the top of the windscreen. Yes Stu I wen't for the blue spot one. I picked up the power from the 12V supplying the stereo and the earth bond attached with the screw holding the interior light in place. Whole process took about an hour. thanks for all the advice. Next mission get the MF steering wheel to work with the MFD3!

So how big are the bits that extend out either side?

That central bit looks pretty big which isn't ideal.

Edited 19 August, 200817 yr by cheezemonkhai

Sorry no pics..... Far too embaressed by my DIY skills to do that

Oh go on.

There's a very good description of the install here. VWvortex Forums: Another O² vRS finally arrived!

I followed the instructions and all is working fine.

The power is sourced from the Columbus areial plug itself - it has a 12 V power supply to the inner wire of the areial cable. If you remove the power cable from the areial all together, you can mount a 47 microHenry coil between the centre wire soldering point and the soldering point, that the power supply wire came off. If you open the base of the Autfun areial, it is pretty obvious what to do.

Hi, what was the adaptor, was it a female din to fakra (or whatever the connector at the back of the MFD3 is called)??

Thanks