juk79

For about 1 mounth i found out that my radio takes to bad all radio stations, and there are too many places where my radio is noising by taking some FM freqency! Tell me where is a antena in my c230k '98? Man told my somewhere between 2 tails of rear window, but i can not find, or may be in radio antenna amplifier is destroied?

Thx a lot

Rincewind

I dont think you have one.

I have a 98 c230 and I dont have an antenna.

Its normally on the rear car, above the rear window and in the middle.

juk79

LOL! how can i have a radio in the car without antenna? Its stupid, and secondary there are a cable i can see its closed to my radio, if i brake this connection my radio cant take any FMs!!! Its just the quastion, why in last time my radio take Fms much badly than in the past!
Thx

Rincewind

donno, but i know i dont have an antenna

and i still pick up fm radio

davis449

Ok, I think I have the answer to this one. A lot of cars companies in the early 90's started mounting the antenna into the rear windsheild. It is a black wire that looks like window defroster wires. You may not even be able to see it. They did this to avoid having an external metal antenna. I'm pretty sure it's a "dealer only" special. My Maxima's Bose system had a feature called FM Diversity which made use of both a metal antenna and one like I described above for better FM reception. Does this help?

Jano

I don't think the antenna being mounted in the rear winshield was a dealer special. I would think that many classes of Mercedes-Benz cars started having the antenna in the rear window during the late 1990's. I know for a fact that my father's late 90's S-classes (w140) and my 2000 C-class (w202) have a non external antenna placed in the rear window.

As for interference or bad radio reception... I don't have a clue as I am not a physicist. But in concern to how the car was fine before and now it's bad. Maybe the radio signals in your country are very close in frequency and are high powered. Overlapping radio frequencies maybe the case. I would like to think that nothing is wrong with your car. Maybe you should go to a neighboring country or see if this problem occurs in your friend's or relatives Mercedes-Benz with a rear window radio antenna.

I am sorry I can't be of more help to you... but this is the best I can think of...

davis449

By "dealer only" special, I mean that if you want if fixed you have to go to the dealer. I don't think any electronics store or stereo shop in the U.S. has the capability to mess with that.

juk79

thx a lot, of course i know that the dealer knows better but it will cost me min 20 usd just for talking with him.
i have als one mb E320' 97 and he has also no external atntenna that i can see, but under the stong son shining i can see it between the rear window, but there the signal is much much better than in my w202. for some weeks audio speccialist installed me one GSM antenna on the rear window and i thougt that may be he does some mistake. I just want to know is a antenna in my car between 2 parts of rear window or not thats all! Thx a lot for your helping

davis449

As far as I know it's on one side of the glass, either interior or exterior.

HiDefDave

Hi, guys. I'm new to the Forum today.

My dealer told me that the radio antenna on my '99 is in the rear window and that the cell phone antenna in within the rear bumper housing. (Guess that didn't work out so well since they moved the cell phone antenna to the rear center of the roof in 2000.)

The radio antenna seems fine for FM but it's too directional on AM.