AlfaRomeoGTV6
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I also agree, I looked at a few early Spyders and they were the same, it really is horrible. Was the Gransport not out in 2006? Maybe an early 4200 with Gransport kit on?
Gransport overlapped with the 4200. Gransport was available 2005 to 2007 although there may be a few 2008 models around the same as there are 2008 4200 registered vehicles.
The standard 4200 and GS aerials or both of them in the case of 2004 onwards 4200's are pretty poor. Fitted to both the front and rear screen. Its probably an after market fit to cure the rubbish reception.
Early "classico" 4200s had their aerials mounted this way. Later 4200s and the GS tend to have the radio aerial embedded in the windscreen and where applicable, a small GPS shark fin colour coded antenna on the roof for coupe or on the boot lid for Spyders. Could be a factory thing where they had a spare early coupe bodyshell? Who knows with Maserati!
Ahhh - so THAT's what that line down the middle of the windscreen is. That's the one thing that everyone asks about when they are in the car... I remember, before buying it, a thread about a little green light in the 3200...
Yep the line is the front windscreen is one of the aerials. There is something called the diversity control box which takes both aerial signals and then picks the best signal between the two. There are also two inline amplifiers before the signal gets to the diversity box. They were only fitted on 2004 onwards cars. Prior to that you had the bee sting aerial and better recption.
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Sorry for drift, but if I get, for example, an Alpine DAB CDE 1368T to replace the Becker, the windscreen aerial will, or (probably won't) work? I see that they talk about another aerial being needed.. & will the headunit control the CD changer in the boot?