Thanks. Though it made a difference to dab signal screwing in the roof one properly earlier (it was slightly loose). No one I'd spoken to seemed to know what that was. Buy yourself a pint!
18-10-2023, 05:08 AM (This post was last modified: 18-10-2023, 05:33 AM by Sol.)
It's not a DAB antenna.
It's the GPRS antenna from the old separate sat nav unit that came with the Enterprise vans which sat on the dash at the drivers side near the door and has an old USB "A" cable hanging out of the trim on the A pillar to power it and connect that antenna to it. The sat nav was a Traffic Master or something and was pure shite. They charged 26p per post code search and another 76p charge per route used.
This was what they called the Teletrac system, and included a tracker too. It was dear to subscribe to the whole lot, so my first two went straight in the bin. Also the maps were brown graphics....typically French. Merd.
You'll find it goes to a small black box inside the panel on the drivers end of the dashboard, which powered the sat nav and routed the antenna cable to that USB plug (which had two rows of pins, and doesn't fit anything but a sat nav unit like an old TomTom style thing.)
You can trace the cable back to the box and take it out, but it runs behind a clipped on plastic shell on the drivers A pillar which is tricky to put back on. Also the glue was made by Satan that sticks that thing to the windscreen.
Isopropyl alcohol would loosen the sticky pad behind it and it can be removed with a plastic pry tool and cut out at each end to get rid, once it's disconnected from the wee black box in the RHS end of the dash behind the grey panel. Saves pulling the A panel trim off. Ask me how I know.
Give that pint back James.
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Why would anyone design something so stupid? I had noticed another wire down by the door which I figured was for the built in sat nav after I discovered what the silly little mounting bracket was for on the dash. Didn't think they'd be related.
18-10-2023, 05:57 AM (This post was last modified: 18-10-2023, 06:00 AM by Sol.)
One word.
French!
Over complex, stupid ideas. Too much wine with their lunch at work, no wonder everything is cockeyed. Have you looked at how your B9 steering wheel sits compared to the dash clocks, and your seating position? Very much off to the left perhaps?
Designed by a half drunk Frenchman after lunch. They used to serve wine with lunch at primary schools in France.
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(18-10-2023, 05:08 AM)Zion Wrote: It's not a DAB antenna.
It's the GPRS antenna from the old separate sat nav unit that came with the Enterprise vans which sat on the dash at the drivers side near the door and has an old USB "A" cable hanging out of the trim on the A pillar to power it and connect that antenna to it. The sat nav was a Traffic Master or something and was pure shite. They charged 26p per post code search and another 76p charge per route used.
This was what they called the Teletrac system, and included a tracker too. It was dear to subscribe to the whole lot, so my first two went straight in the bin. Also the maps were brown graphics....typically French. Merd.
You'll find it goes to a small black box inside the panel on the drivers end of the dashboard, which powered the sat nav and routed the antenna cable to that USB plug (which had two rows of pins, and doesn't fit anything but a sat nav unit like an old TomTom style thing.)
You can trace the cable back to the box and take it out, but it runs behind a clipped on plastic shell on the drivers A pillar which is tricky to put back on. Also the glue was made by Satan that sticks that thing to the windscreen.
Isopropyl alcohol would loosen the sticky pad behind it and it can be removed with a plastic pry tool and cut out at each end to get rid, once it's disconnected from the wee black box in the RHS end of the dash behind the grey panel. Saves pulling the A panel trim off. Ask me how I know.
Over complex, stupid ideas. Too much wine with their lunch at work, no wonder everything is cockeyed. Have you looked at how your B9 steering wheel sits compared to the dash clocks, and your seating position? Very much off to the left perhaps?
Designed by a half drunk Frenchman after lunch. They used to serve wine with lunch at primary schools in France.
Over complex, stupid ideas. Too much wine with their lunch at work, no wonder everything is cockeyed. Have you looked at how your B9 steering wheel sits compared to the dash clocks, and your seating position? Very much off to the left perhaps?
Designed by a half drunk Frenchman after lunch. They used to serve wine with lunch at primary schools in France.
And now I'm wondering if it's the opposite on LHD Berlingos, the steering wheel is offset to the right... Or can they get it right when it's for the French?
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