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When on the three day test drive I discovered that the cee'd aerial was ok when entering our garage but the aerial would not let the car out. Had to unscrew the aerial to reverse out - a right pain. Waiting for a 1.6 crdi LS with esp to be delivered from the factory and would like to install a shorter aerial when it arrives. Has anyone done this and, if so, is radio reception still acceptable?
Took delivery of my new cee'd crdi LS on Wednesday. A great car! Located a "Bee-sting Viper" car aerial only 4" long (matt black finish) as a screw-in replacement. Works just as good as the original. Bought from speeding.co.uk - £11.99 inc p & p.
My Pug, and crap 2005 nissan primera (now gone to some other sucker via Kia) only gave me local bbc reception for 10 miles on my commute, whereas the ceed gives me it for 20.
I'm really struggling for reception - I't worse than on my Elise (which is allowed to be crap as it's not even grounded...) which is saying something. Even on something with a really wide FM range like Radio 1 can dissapear in standard driving, fade in and out, fuzz, attempt to retune etc. A good test is to preset to the frequency at say 98.6 (which is usually good where I am) and listen via the preset numbers - that should work, but if you then use the tuner to scan up and down to find the next channel, once you have got one, going back to other way will skim past your preset frequency without finding it?
I have really good reception with my ceed not as great as a previous Audi A4 (antenna embedded in the rear window) but similar to A6 with aerial on the roof.
Car aerial too long
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