This might be more relevant for those who stay in Edinburgh/Central belt region.

As I stay in Edinburgh 99% of my time is spent tuned to Forth 1 (97.3 FM),however I am experiencing problems when driving that now and again it decides of it's own accord to tune to Tay FM (102.8FM). Now I have turned of all the auto search features for poor signal etc as per the manual and have disabled Traffic Announcements.

Can someone explain why it has a mind of it's own? All my previous cars (6 of them) have never tuned away from the set station. Forth 1 apparently also transmits on 102.2 FM but this is still different to the Tay FM frequency.

Tay FM is Dundee based and i'm nowhere near Dundee, my dad can't even get Tay FM on his home hi-fi radio with external FM Antenna yet my car picks it up all too easily.

I'm puzzled might have to consult the dealer if it keeps doing it or no remedy is found.

Hi!

Have you tried the REG ON/OFF as per the guide? If I remember correctly, this does something to stop a search if the frequency gets weaker?

thanks for the reply, but yes that option is also off.

Sounds like you've tried everything then.

Where I live, I sometimes listen to BBC Radio Manchester for the football, but once I get nearer to home, I can loose the station and it switches over to BBC Radio Lancashire, because I live within the Lancs catchment area rather than Mc'r.

However, that's normal because of the weaker signal strength, but in your area, its odd that you can't keep hold of the Forth station frequency and pick up the Tay one instead.

Are you in an area that can pick up stations (radio or tv) from more than one transmitter?

I live in Edinburgh but I can't really say I've noticed this problem on the odd occassions when I've been in SWMBO's Fabia & listening to Forth 1 on her Symphony unit. :confused:

I have similar problem with my Fabia. I live on the west coast (Ayrshire) and commute to Glasgow every day and despite having the Tuner set to stay with Clyde 1 it regularly self tunes to West FM. I found out that these two companies are owned by the same parent company and it was suggested to me that, that may be the reason for the switch back and forth, maybe you are in the same boat so to speak.

I stay just to the east of Edinburgh, and mine is exactly the same. Keeps jumping from Forth One to Tay FM. I don't know if they have upped the strength of the Tay FM signal or what- may have something to so with the fact that both stations are owned by the same company- perhaps broadcast from same place? Used to do it in the Audi, so kind of used to it now.

I stay just to the east of Edinburgh, and mine is exactly the same. Keeps jumping from Forth One to Tay FM. I don't know if they have upped the strength of the Tay FM signal or what- may have something to so with the fact that both stations are owned by the same company- perhaps broadcast from same place? Used to do it in the Audi, so kind of used to it now.

thanks for the reply nice to know it's notjust me,might try the dealer an see what their take on it is.

too mine to the dealer today, turns out its got a fault, so being replaced next week. result at last!

What did they say the problem with the radio was nokiauk? I'd be interested to know in case I don't have to put up with the problem myself:)

didn't say much, they had the car for an hour and when I returned to pick it up they just said that they had diagnosed a faulty circuit and it was most economical to replace the whole unit.

can only assume they can interrogate the radio system via vag-com or some other diagnostic method.

either that or they decided to change it to keep the peace esp as it was under warranty anyway.

I live in Edinburgh but I can't really say I've noticed this problem on the odd occassions when I've been in SWMBO's Fabia & listening to Forth 1 on her Symphony unit. :confused:

I stand corrected !

I was travelling from Corstorphine over to Davidson's Mains listening to Forth FM in the Fabia last night & as I came over Clermiston Hill the radio changed to Tay FM. It changed back again to Forth FM as I came down the hill towards Queensferry Road which makes me think that TayFM had the stronger signal at the top of the hill and the radio just roamed onto that & then back again as the signal weakened. :(

radio was replaced yesterday, auto tuned to get all local stations, stuck it on Forth 1 as normal and i've had no problems since,gues it was a duff unit after all.