what are the eliments in the rear side windows for in an st

[p lancaster]

hi has any one any idea what the eliments in the rear side windows in the st sport tech they look like the heated rear window and if thet are heated how do you get them to work
thanks phil

 

[kblackburn]

Phil,

I understood they were for the radio and sat nav system, and not heated elements.


kev

 

[MasterKey]

I think they're just for the radio - I thought the SatNav used a S-hark Fin aerial?

 

[Legohead]

I believe a lot of cars use twin diverstiy aerials now, so you have two elements working in parallel and swap to the one with the strongest signal.

I had a 5 series years ago that had two boosters, one in each C pillar

 

[Exeo Rog]

I think they are DAB aerials. The one on the drivers side of my ST is not connected - the wires are just terminated in a connector which hangs there, so it isn't being used for FM/AM. I can't easily get to the connector of the one on the other side window though

 

[Troll]

I believe they are for normal am/fm radio, I have the same on my Land rover Discovery 2.

 

[Exeo Rog]

But mine aren't connected (at least the one on the drivers side isn't) and I am getting good AM/FM?

 

[mrdo]

did anyone find out for sure what the aerial was for ?

am about to have a dab radio fitted and would prefer to have an internal aerial rather than have an ugly external one fitted.

 

[Exeo Rog]

did anyone find out for sure what the aerial was for ?

am about to have a dab radio fitted and would prefer to have an internal aerial rather than have an ugly external one fitted.

As I posted above, the drivers side is definitely not connected. I can see this by removing the cover to the side compartment. The other side is not so easy, as there is no removable cover. I wonder if anyone has taken the trim piece off and could tell us if that side is connected or not?

They terminate in a small connector with thin wires and are not heating elements. They the correct shape for aerials.

The rear screen has vertical elements, as well as the usual horizontal. This is used for AM/FM. If we can determine that the passenger side rear element is not connected then I would say that the two rear side elements must be for DAB, as AM/FM works perfectly with them not connected.

From the type of connector, I guess that they would go into an aerial amplifier, which would then connect to the factory fit DAB radio. All very difficult to integrate with an after market radio I'm afraid.

 

[mrdo]

it sounds like a bit of a nightmare which is a shame as it would be much cleaner.

thanks for taking the time to reply.

 

[Legohead]

Thats a surpise to me. I honestly thought they were the normal AM/FM aerials, but I guess that'll teach me not to assume! Didn't realise that was catered for in the rear screen.

Was DAB even an opition on the Exeo then?

 

[Exeo Rog]

Thats a surpise to me. I honestly thought they were the normal AM/FM aerials, but I guess that'll teach me not to assume! Didn't realise that was catered for in the rear screen.

Was DAB even an opition on the Exeo then?

I would agree with you if they were connected! Of course the one on the passenger side may be - we don't know...

 

[ozz]

Grrrr.frustrating. Haven't posted 15 times so can't post the URLs.

elsaweb"dot"spaghetticoder"dot"org/doc/S"dot"en-GBS"dot"01DEXX8X/35796424/3

Gives the locations of stuff for the Saloon. Nothing for the Exeo ST, but there is the 8ED A4 Avant diagrams with the RNS-E which might be the same?

elsaweb"dot"spaghetticoder"dot"org/doc/A"dot"en-GB"dot"A03.5907.89/29078029/3

 

[ozz]

Fm, AM, TV!

 

[mrdo]

very interesting.

no mention of dab unfortunately and i believe that a dab radio would have to use a dab-specific aerial unless anyone knows any different ?

 

[Exeo Rog]

very interesting.

no mention of dab unfortunately and i believe that a dab radio would have to use a dab-specific aerial unless anyone knows any different ?

Yes, it needs to be tuned to DAB frequencies - i.e. the correct length

 

[mrdo]

thanks for confirming.