General Fiat Punto 2 (1.2 8v) radio problem

[Nikola94]

Hello everyone, I have a fiat punto 2 and I have a problem with the radio. The antenna does not pick up any stations at all. For a while it picked up one station, but now it won't pick up a single one. I checked the cable at the back, it's on.

 

[BenWheatz]

Pull the interior light out, and you will see the nut that holds the cable to the antenna, try tightening that. If that fails I would say to try a new aerial and/or cable

 

[Nikola94]

I tried with another radio, and it picks up the stations. So the problem is with this radio, if I could somehow fix it because it's a good radio, it's just messing with it because it doesn't pick up the stations...

 

[BenWheatz]

What sort of radio? Dab?, fm? Try another adapter in the back of the radio see if that makes a difference. The new stereo may just not like the old antenna

 

[Nikola94]

The radio is new,multimedia with a display, so I assume it's Dab..

 

[BenWheatz]

The current antenna on the car is only for FM/AM Radio, if the new stereo has DAB, then you’ll need an extra DAB antenna. I have a cheap magnetic one from Halfords and it was actually the only one that worked with my stereo out of the 4 that I tried

 

[Nikola94]

Is that extra dab antenna placed at the back of the radio or at the front?

 

[BenWheatz]

I don’t know what you mean? What is the make and model of your stereo

 

[Nikola94]

This radio I have:

https://m.tvcmall.com/details/swm-160c-5-inch-single-spindle-car-bluetooth-player-mp5-mp4-radio-audio-player-carplay-cell-phone-connected-car-bt-player-sku670900072a.html

 

[BenWheatz]

All you need is just a standard aerial… that stereo doesn’t have dab. I think you just need an aerial booster. My original stereo had signal everywhere.. put a new stereo in and the signal was next to nothing. So get some sort of aerial signal booster an see if that makes any difference