Hi,

 

new to me 2015 Fabia,  love the car but dab does not work

it is a case of swapping the roof mounted ariel for a new one?

has this been a common issue?

 

thanks

It's rather not a common issue. Do you have possibility to use some diagnostics tool, e.g. VCDS, Vag Can Pro or OBD Eleven?

not sure if i explained the issue correctly

 

no reception,  i did get dab it tuned once for one station,  started driving again 5 minutes later no reception

 

i guess the it needs a new aerial ? 

Did you perhaps pick a station that was weak reception so lost as you moved?

 

In "Advanced" tuning have you got "DAB Station Tracking" switched on?

 

Do you get a list of available (DAB) stations?

 

Have you tried manually tuning to a DAB station that you know gets strong reception where you are?

 

On our Fabia DAB radio if we 'switch' to BBC Radio 2 it always takes ages to pick up that station yet the other BBC DAB stations and other we have pre-set tuning in straight away.

 

First try to look at National DAB stations only as local DAB might be weak, well it is up my way!

 

Next, and I'v said this before, one easy and cheap but slightly wasteful way to check if it is aerial system or radio, is to buy a cheap DAM screen mounted powered aerial, drape it over the passenger seat back, unplug the car's aerial lead and plug this one in not bothering to power it from 12V, if that improves things greatly then your problem is in the aerial system - ie not plugged in well enough originally or lead faulty or aerial amp faulty or links to the aerial faulty - does that installation use "diversity"?

On 11/07/2021 at 11:53, nta16 said:

Have you tried manually tuning to a DAB station that you know gets strong reception where you are?

I take that back, as an experiment the other day whilst waiting in the Fabia for my wife I tried manually tuning and it only gave me four stations yet I could receive the pre-sets but only one of them was the four offered and it was a long winded way of going about things.. 

 

I can't remember how the local to national tuning is done without the unit in front of me.

 

Rum4mo has reminded me I meant to put trying a portable/personal (or even mains on a power extension cable) DAB in the car to see what stations you can and can't tune-in with to give you an idea of the reception where your car is parked.  Once you've got a station on pre-set it can also be set to look for the strongest signal for that station as you travel (subject to reception).

 

Around town I know of two (forget the correct term) blank areas, one only lasts for half a second when driving at 30 mph.

 

thought i would update this,  replaced the dab aerial base,   all fine now

 

what a pain to change

On 14/07/2021 at 09:44, challengedavid said:

thought i would update this,  replaced the dab aerial base,   all fine now

 

what a pain to change

Hi I've also got the same problem. How did you get the aerial base changed? 

1 minute ago, Fabiacadabra said:

Hi I've also got the same problem. How did you get the aerial base changed? 

Bought a used one from ebay and changed it myself. I guess a garage could do it but it will cost a bit

On 30/01/2022 at 19:01, challengedavid said:

Bought a used one from ebay and changed it myself. I guess a garage could do it but it will cost a bit

Hi mate, sorry for bumping an old thread, but I'm considering taking this on. Our DAB reception is pants and the car reports a fault code suggesting the antenna needs replacing. Did you have to remove the entire headliner to get to the aerial fixing, or can it be reached with just the rear pillar trims out? Ours is an estate so it looks like there is a second set to take out.