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07 Suburban SIDE back window defrost
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AKA diversity antennas. It common to see them on rear 3rd 1/4 glass of wagons and SUV. Had the dealer activate all of them and purchase the corresponding amplifiers for them on our Audi allroad when installing a converted Euro DVD based Navi unit.
Pretty cool technology because it constantly searches each antenna for the best signal. The AM & XM usually have just one antenna. Our remote control car looking antenna was replaced with a single submarine looking antenna in back of the allroad. It bundles FM/AM/XM/GSM-OnStar/NAVI.
OnStar F’d VW/Audi NA and sold them their products, then obsoleted it by going from analog to digital a year or two later. In our 06 Denali XL we complained about the planned obsolescence and they did a little known retrofit to a digital OnStar w/ 200 free teleph min for $250.
In Europe it was an option to have a TV tuner in the Navi screen with HD signal. EU got HD over the air DVB about 06. You could buy a VW, BMW or Porsche DVB tuner for your Navi screen as an option. It got pretty wild in EU where you could have a cell phone from Audi made to fit in the arm rest that automatically switched to speakerphone and amp’d the cell signal through the diversity antennas by almost 3x.
Add in your HD (DVB) tuner to watch on the navi screen while driving and an optional DVD player w/ integrated wireless remote, XM (in the States), automated traffic alerts, Bluetooth, speech recognition dialling and dash controls & music hard drives (phatbox).
In 06 we had a crack Audi tech install all the Euro options in our allroad except the speech operated dash controls. It took two extra wires to the headrests for rear seat DVD action and we were road trip ready. The US holds back all the tech. The same tech swapped a factory rear facing 3rd row seat in for the oldest kid when #3 arrived w/ his own monitor.
We had to move up to a Denali XL simply because our kids are so tall. Sooo, the US is still holding back on its in car technologies 10+ years later.
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Pretty cool technology because it constantly searches each antenna for the best signal. The AM & XM usually have just one antenna. Our remote control car looking antenna was replaced with a single submarine looking antenna in back of the allroad. It bundles FM/AM/XM/GSM-OnStar/NAVI.
OnStar F’d VW/Audi NA and sold them their products, then obsoleted it by going from analog to digital a year or two later. In our 06 Denali XL we complained about the planned obsolescence and they did a little known retrofit to a digital OnStar w/ 200 free teleph min for $250.
In Europe it was an option to have a TV tuner in the Navi screen with HD signal. EU got HD over the air DVB about 06. You could buy a VW, BMW or Porsche DVB tuner for your Navi screen as an option. It got pretty wild in EU where you could have a cell phone from Audi made to fit in the arm rest that automatically switched to speakerphone and amp’d the cell signal through the diversity antennas by almost 3x.
Add in your HD (DVB) tuner to watch on the navi screen while driving and an optional DVD player w/ integrated wireless remote, XM (in the States), automated traffic alerts, Bluetooth, speech recognition dialling and dash controls & music hard drives (phatbox).
In 06 we had a crack Audi tech install all the Euro options in our allroad except the speech operated dash controls. It took two extra wires to the headrests for rear seat DVD action and we were road trip ready. The US holds back all the tech. The same tech swapped a factory rear facing 3rd row seat in for the oldest kid when #3 arrived w/ his own monitor.
We had to move up to a Denali XL simply because our kids are so tall. Sooo, the US is still holding back on its in car technologies 10+ years later.
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Thanks for posting this, I was just about to start asking why I only had a defrost grid on one side!
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