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Well, their experience is that DIY fitting the amplifier for the arial is not always as sucessful as the dealer doing it, not sure why, but without any experience I cannot argue?....so they basically were saying to use a windscreen stick on arial instead, which in my opinion is a no go as they are ugly things and want to do this the oem way. they would say that as they sell the windscreen arials too ;-) I think the problem I have found when searching is that there is nobody saying how they have done this, but plently of people saying it is doable. I can get a unit off Ebay for £250 which is a massive saving on Audi charging £800 plus fitting, plus vat....and a saving on the £500 for a non audi retrofit from these guys....even adding the extra bits needed like the fibre cable and the arial amp. I'm keeping searching, but what I need is to find someone who has done it, then I can find out what's involved so I don;t waste money buying kit which is either beyond a DIY fit or just doesn't give a good enough reception to be worth doing.

Hmmm...spoke to these guys and they doubted if get a good reception from the built in dab aerial in the rear quaterlight window? So, has anyone fitted a dab unit? Any views on reception quality without having to stick an ugly aftermarket aerial in the front screen? Geoff.

...actually just searched the website again and yes they do sell the oem kit as well, but that's £600! I'd like dab, but not that much ;-)

Thanks for the reply James. Had a look and definitely an option, but fancied fitting oem if possible. A few are available on eBay for around £250 so with cables would be a similar price and with oem you just get an addition waveband in the list on the radio. These aftermarket ones seem to appear as an a new input on the mmi with their own style of menu system, I'd prefer oem if I can do it - to keep a simple functionality I guess :-) I guess it's just the the question of if there are additional problems with trying to do an oem fit rather than this aftermarket one?

I quite fancy getting dab radio in my 62 plate a4 (mmi 3g). Read a few bits of info I've found saying it can be retrofitted? Anyone done this? I have found a few genuine second hand dab units which apparently fit in the boot with all the other mmi gubbins and connect with certain cables to the mmi, all which can be bought online quite cheaply? Then use a 3rd party aerial which can be mounted on top of the side panel next to the rear quarter light? Question is, is it that easy or does it need a software change as well? Anyone done this successfully? Thanks for any help!

thanks for the reply, yes they have already used language like 'well of course if you are looking for problems then you will always find them no matter how small they may be' which makes me feel like I'm being awkward, but I agree that it will spoil the car for me, I have had a drive in other dmf fitted VW's and Audi's and none have this sound when depressing the clutch. I guess I just wondered if they were looking in the wrong place now that the flywheel has been replaced already? Is there anything else it could be? They should be the experts here, but I was wondering if it could be a mount, clutch slave cylinder or release bearing (which should have been replaced with the clutch?)...or something else? Just don't want this to turn into one of those problems which taks weeks to diagnose ;-0 Cheers!

Hi all - bought a 2012 A4 avant tdi 163ie a few weeks ago. Had a juddering clutch which I didn;t pick up on during the test drive. Still in warranty so Audi graciously agreed to replace clutch and flywheel. This fixed clutch judder, but now (and I can't tell if this has developed since) there is a slight noise from when I press the clutch down all the way to releasing it. Sounds like a feint thumping, but really not very loud? Setting off in 1st it is louder, but as I say it is not there when driving and clutch is disengaged. Audi took it back and they said it might be a clutch fork slightly out, so they replaced the clutch, again. Got it back after the were supposed to have check it, noise is still there. Any idea? I obviously suspect it is the flywheel, but surely a new one would not have issues like this? Could it be anything else? Or am I just going to have to take it back and suggest they yet again replace the flywheel? Thanks in advance!