Hi guys,

I bought a 58 plate Fabia 1 a couple of months ago, still in warranty etc. Have never managed to get an AM signal. Was mostly wondering if this is a common fault with the Dance radios? Am I right in thinking that a repair for this should be covered by warranty?

Thanks!

Nathan

If it not the radio,it is the aerial.Water gets into the amplifier situated in the aerial base,and damages it.FM normally works OK,because it is a more local signal,and stronger.

If it not the radio,it is the aerial.Water gets into the amplifier situated in the aerial base,and damages it.FM normally works OK,because it is a more local signal,and stronger.

Thanks Andy. Anybody know if this is a common fault?

Don't listen to AM myself but sometimes my FM signal just vanishes from time to time but I listen to CD's more than the radio.

I can get crackly radio on mine fine (5 live etc), but you do have to turn it up a lot louder than fm. Why on earth is 5 live still on am anyway?!?!

Thanks Andy. Anybody know if this is a common fault?

Hi, its a very common fault on Skoda Aerials,especially as the cars get older!

Tune into an FM station and hold the menu button for 10 seconds until the display changes. The top left should show ant on / ein and the bottom left stereo or mono. If the ant shows 'off' then the signal booster in the base of the aerial has failed. This is a common problem on VAG cars.

I have this error/problem. I have been quoted over £300 to repair. Well p***d off, as the car is just out of warranty.

Strange FM work perfectly though.

In fact I've just checked and mine shows ant ein in top left and the bottom left shows stereo, but I can't pick any AM stations up at all.

I know this is years old but I can no longer get AM.

<snip> Why on earth is 5 live still on am anyway?!?!

 

That's an easy one. Back in 2009, the Government of the day optimistically decreed that analogue radio transmissions in the UK would cease and everything would switch over to DAB by Autumn 2015 (Five Live is available on DAB).

 

Because Digita radios are still fiendishly expensive, in practice offer lower quality than analogue (due to restricted bandwidth and compression) and are not ubiquitous, the Government backed off this stupid idea a year or two ago. The current plan is to go for Digital radio switchover in 2020. This in itself may cause "issues" because the UK chose to use an obsolete system (DAB - MP2) that is not used elsewhere (DAB+ - AAC+) .

 

Many new cars are still being sold in 2015 with FM/AM only radios and after-market DAB/FM/AM head units are still expensive and require an additional aerial to work properly.

I can just about pick up AM but majority of the time it's awful sounding. If you have Bluetooth, download a radio app on your phone. I use Tunein. You can get all the digital stations and play them through your speakers. Obviously depends on your data package for phone cause it will eat it up :-)