Poor radio reception - Golf Mk3

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Fri 3 Nov 2006 13:34
Poor radio reception - Golf Mk3 - VR6
I've never had good FM reception in my car, and no reception on MW / LW. I recently changed my headunit, and doing so noticed that the plug on the aerial wire was broken, so I put a new one on from Maplins

I can now get FM radio stations, but the signal is not great, but still get no MW reception - all i hear are strange noises.

Is there anything I can do to improve matters? The car has a standard bee-sting aerial on the roof.
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Fri 3 Nov 2006 14:41
Poor radio reception - Golf Mk3 - ggh1
If you are not using a Golf oe headunit you will need a small aerial inline amp which needs a 12 volt supply, you can obtain it from VW. MW/LW reception will never be very good, the aerial seems to be biased towards FM reception.
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