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Gingerbread Man

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Aug 22, 2013
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Gloucester
My radio when set to digital will keep loosing signal for a few moments, sometimes minutes at a time. It is the same as the one pictured. I think there are a couple of different versions for these cars so I attached a picture of mine so you can see which one I have. The trouble is I am not sure of why my radio is bad. I'm not sure if the digital aerial is built into the thingy on the roof or if it's built into the rear windscreen. Some clarification would be helpful on this. I tried to replace the original aerial topper that screws into the roof base thing as it was all bent and damaged. I got a slightly smaller one from Halfords which said it was suitable for digital radio. This didn't help really other than look better because the original was clearly broken. I'm wondering if I tried to clean inside the roof base thing with a cotton wool tip and something strong and then using an electrical contact cleaner might help. But I'm not sure if the base on the roof is where the aerial even is. I have Carista and scanned the car and have no faults no codes of any kind. I live in Gloucester so I wouldn't think I live in a bad coverage area, in fact the digital radio on my '18 Ateca is fine throughout the city.
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I'm not sure if the digital aerial is built into the thingy on the roof or if it's built into the rear windscreen. Some clarification would be helpful on this.
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But I'm not sure if the base on the roof is where the aerial even is.

As you can see in the part numbers below, the base and the rod is different on cars without digital radio (PR code QV0) than the ones on cars with it. (PR code QV3)

Part numbers for standard radio:
6J0035501A aerial base / QV0
6J0035849 rod-type aerial / QV0


Part numbers for digital radio:
6J0035501B aerial base / QV3
5P0035849B rod-type aerial / QV3


So, not sure about the source of your problem, but the answer to your question is that the digital radio aerial is the one on the roof.
Parts catalog does not show any other aerial anywhere else on a 2014 Ibiza.