So.. have put up with rubbish DAB for 2 years since buying our T6 and installing a new kenwood head unit. Everyone said that DAB in VW vans is rubbish because of wing mirror aerial and the windscreen stick options don't work, especially with a heated screen. HOWEVER... this week I finished installing a shark fin to the the pop top and the radio reception is full on brilliant. Solution being using the roof hinges to get the earth to make the ground plane for the aerial. So... there is a solution and it does work brilliantly. There are one or two issues to overcome...notably the pop top is thicker than the aerial securing stub but there is a solution for that too...
My feeling is that it would work with any decent shark fin. I went to Peter at Skipton Car Radio... S C R Distribution. He was unbelievably helpful and constructive and patient particularly with getting head unit in. Cables went though dash, up pillar across in headliner and then behind cupboards through a grommet above right hand barn door to get outside.... I was talking to.an engineering firm to make me a threaded extension to increase stub length to get through roof but was going to be £160! So drilled a hole in stub, used a self tapping screw and some roofers tie in strap that i could
My feeling is that it would work with any decent shark fin. I went to Peter at Skipton Car Radio... S C R Distribution. He was unbelievably helpful and constructive and patient particularly with getting head unit in. Cables went though dash, up pillar across in headliner and then behind cupboards through a grommet above right hand barn door to get outside.... I was talking to.an engineering firm to make me a threaded extension to increase stub length to get through roof but was going to be £160! So drilled a hole in stub, used a self tapping screw and some roofers tie in strap that i could
