Heated rear window affects dab?

[Mark300zx]

When I switch on the HRW the dab disappears, any cures going around?

 

[Mr Pig]

Not something I've experienced but the DAB receiver is in the tailgate, if I remember correctly. Might be a power or ground issue back there. You could pull the trim off and look for obvious faults.

 

[tracktoy]

there are a few threads on various forums about this

Rear window heater interferes with DAB radio reception

Anyone else experienced this? I noticed today that when activating the rear window heater, the DAB radio went silent immediately. Came back when I turned the heater off. Leaving the heater on, the signal slowly returned, but was unstable. I can see from googling that this is a common problem acro...

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Dab radios losing signal when turning on heated rear window

Strange one had my 7.5 6months now but only just noticed now that the weather is getting colder turned on heated seats heated windscreen and rear window And the Radio signal goes off turn off the heated rear window and the radio Signal comes back on. Has anyone else had this is it a known problem...

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Question Radio interference - Heated rear screen

I have a 2013 CC GT, and have noticed when I turn on the heated rear windscreen, the radio loses it's signal. I just get interference. This happens on both FM and DAB radio. Any ides what could cause this and how to fix?

www.vwaudiforum.co.uk

 

[Bagpuss12]

When I switch on the HRW the dab disappears, any cures going around?

I’ve had the same issue and found that I had broken lines on the demister which I repaired myself and something had attached itself to one of the demister lines. I scraped it off and DAB now works with demister on


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