Morning all,

Had my '61 A7 in to the dealer a couple of weeks ago (only 2 ish weeks out of warranty) to investigate why for a while now I have not been picking up FM stations automatically, although I can manually tune, I rarely pick up TP now and I certainly don't pick up TMC, which is very annoying when you're doing a lot of m6 driving, liverpool to Glasgow a couple of times a week. (I don't have google nav just the usual mmi3g i think)

Anyway, I tried to associate the issue with any software updates the dealer might have done during the first mot and service at the end of november, (where as I mentioned in another post they picked up the the high level brake light was dim so it went back a week later where they replaced it.) There was no software update done, and I wouldn't really know where to check if it was due one or what version it should be. Anyway brake light repaired within warranty and all good, however when I mentioned about this FM problem a week later and booked in for 19th December as they said they would take a look at it; no mention of charge, just bring it in and we'll have a look.

Anyway it goes in week last friday, first thing is how are you paying Sir, I said there was no mention of a charge on the phone and got her to record that as I wasn't really willing to pay if it was damage they had done so close to end of warranty, anyway they discovered that the FM aerial was open circuit which is apparently built into the rear window. The whole rear windscreen would need to be replaced at a charge of £450. Anyway said I'd book in after xmas and left without charge, I have a feeling the diagnostic bill will come through the post at some point though. Now in hindsight I should have maybe associated the work they'd done on the high level brake light with this but I didn't (as in reality as it was such a quick in and out i'd forgotten about it)

One thing here though that I thought would have been covered is the mmi was changed less than a year ago under warranty. I would have thought that would have been guaranteed but apparently not, that guarantee runs out with your warranty, that astounded me.

Obviously I can't prove who or what has damaged the aerial connection, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this, i.e where it may connect to the window. I had the windows tinted several months ago, I am sure it has worked since then but theoretically he could have sliced the connection when he cut the tint.

I have some time off where I want to investigate this a bit more and try and get it working. Any, advice, ideas for repairs or ideas for alternative aerials would be really good.

Bit of a long winded post but I'm sick of that particular dealer fobbing me off!!

(To convince them the mmi wasn't working took weeks, to convince them there was a gearbox issue on my q7 gearbox took weeks and they consistently lied to me, until i showed them the tracker records and the car hadn't even been out!!)

Happy new year to all!!

Chris