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No external aerial
« on: July 27, 2014, 01:31:51 am »
My car has no external aerial but the radio reception is very good.

Does anybody know if I have one but installed somewhere else?

Mine is the only one I've ever noticed which doesn't have an external aerial.

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Offline v4rley

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Re: No external aerial
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2014, 02:41:25 am »
One of the benefits of an early model before vw did some cost cutting  :grin: your aerial like mine is built into the tailgate glass. When I first got mine I was considering buying a stubby aerial, when I went outside to see what was currently fitted i realised I didn't have one  :signLOL:
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Re: No external aerial
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2014, 06:39:07 am »
Mine also doesn't have one, there's bound to be a few on here....
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Re: No external aerial
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2014, 07:45:23 am »
I've no doubt there are plenty more, I've just never noticed any others.

I'll check the rear window then :-)
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Re: No external aerial
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2014, 09:36:20 am »
Yeah it was a 2006 cost cutting change reverting  back to the external aerial. They then made a u-turn with the Mk6 which shares the same setup as the early Mk5s with the aerial built into the rear screen
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Re: No external aerial
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2014, 09:59:38 am »
And all the Jetta models have the rear screen aerial.  :jumping:
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Re: No external aerial
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2014, 10:10:33 am »
as stated the early models didn't have a aerial and they look better without them
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Re: No external aerial
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2014, 07:26:43 pm »
Quote from: v4rley on July 27, 2014, 02:41:25 am
One of the benefits of an early model before vw did some cost cutting  :grin: your aerial like mine is built into the tailgate glass. When I first got mine I was considering buying a stubby aerial, when I went outside to see what was currently fitted i realised I didn't have one  :signLOL:

What exactly does it look like? I've just had a quick look at my rear window and I can't see anything which looks like an aerial. Does it look like the demisting wires?
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Re: No external aerial
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2014, 07:37:45 pm »
^^^ believe it built into the rear glass. Have a search about bit about it here:

http://www.r32oc.com/topic/45281-mk5-gti-no-roof-aerial/
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