I find myself as is so often the case, with the dash of my Octavia (2009) spread across the garage, with connectors that don't connect. On a Sunday. When there's pressures to do 100 other things.

I've bought myself a Pure Highway 300Di DAB radio, which (in case you don't know) interfaces the standard radio to supply DAB and DAB+ and also interface to an iPod/iPhone/USB/mp3 player.

The 300Di is rather clever in that its aerial can either be a whizzy active DAB thingy (supplied, fugly) or make use of the original aerial. Output is either pre-out/pre-in or FM. The FM is quite clever too, as rather than simply broadcasting and hoping your car radio will pick it up, it delivers it directly onto the car aerial cable which is routed through the 300Di itself. It can, if you choose, mute all other channels so the only FM frequency being delivered to your radio is the output of the 300Di (be that DAB or iPod etc).

If you're happy to use the Pure aerial and the radio has pre-in, then there is no need to touch the original aerial on the car. If however you don't fancy using the Pure aerial (I don't) and the radio doesn't have pre-in (it doesn't), the only option is to route the route the car aerial through the 300Di.

Problem - the 300Di has traditional DIN aerial connectors (one in, one out), the Bolero in the Octavia uses twin Fakras and AFAIK the Bolero has diversity. I want to connect in the 300Di, and I don't want to compromise the radio performance of the Bolero.

Any clever ideas?

Or do I just sling the kit in the missus' Fabia I (which has a "traditional" DIN aerial and should be a *very* simple install) and pretend that I bought it for her birthday next week?

Note: whilst it would be nice to have Radio 4 extra, the key thing was to have the iPod interface ( which I presumed would be easy as it didn't require the radio to have a pre-in). I guess the other option would be to give up on it and replace the Parrot CK3000 evolution with an MKi9200.

I fitted the Alpine EX10 Bluetoothand Ipod connector, I picked an brand new one for £40 usually £120-£140. Not the best solution but a doddle to install (must be cos i did it ) .( http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=alpine%20ipod%20bluetooth%20ex-10&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CD4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caraudiocentre.co.uk%2Fproduct_m-alpine-ex-10_p-23165.htm&ei=On4JT-K3G8jDtAa2opyBDw&usg=AFQjCNFMy61mWknTKWOSbOWDlEeZkGpHnQ )

Problem - the 300Di has traditional DIN aerial connectors (one in, one out), the Bolero in the Octavia uses twin Fakras and AFAIK the Bolero has diversity. I want to connect in the 300Di, and I don't want to compromise the radio performance of the Bolero.

Any clever ideas?

I believe you need something like eBay item 260820827094

I have a Stream in my Octavia with a single Fakra connector for the aerial. Does your car have two separate cables terminating in a twin Fakra connector or just one utilising some kind of adaptor?

Also what's Diversity?

I believe you need something like eBay item 260820827094

I have a Stream in my Octavia with a single Fakra connector for the aerial. Does your car have two separate cables terminating in a twin Fakra connector or just one utilising some kind of adaptor?

Also what's Diversity?

I've got two cables terminating in a twin connector (2 Fakra connectors next to each other) on the back of the radio. The diversity aspect is that the radio chooses the strongest signal of the two coming in and uses that.

The ebay cable looks like it could be part of the solution (I'd need two with the other one having male Fakras rather than female IYSWIM) but it still wouldn't maintain the diversity :-(

I've got two cables terminating in a twin connector (2 Fakra connectors next to each other) on the back of the radio. The diversity aspect is that the radio chooses the strongest signal of the two coming in and uses that.

The ebay cable looks like it could be part of the solution (I'd need two with the other one having male Fakras rather than female IYSWIM) but it still wouldn't maintain the diversity :-(

I visited my local car hifi specialists who scratched their heads and weren't sure, so I decided that as Pure say go to Halfords, I'd go to Halfords.

I finally met with their installer yesterday, and she scratched her head, but finally got in touch with their cable supplier who immediately responded with a "Yes, you need the kit with double fakra to DIN and DIN to double fakra, part no whatever". It's going to take a few days to get here, not helped by it being so new a product that Halfords hadn't yet ordered one, but I'll wait and see and hopefully report back good news next weekend

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