I'm listening to a CD in the car and my radio antenna still goes up. Is there a sequence of buttons or something to lower it since I'm not listening to the radio?

I did an advanced search, but could not find anything and I know I've read something about this somewhere...frustrating...

 

If I remember right, it's the "traf" button.

 

Do I need to hold it for any length of time or just push it?

 

It's been so long since I messed with it, I don't remember for sure. It could also be the scan button. I'd go check for you, but I don't get my car back until tomorrow.

 

That's okay...gives me something to play with in about 30 minutes. I'll report tomorrow which button it was and how long it needs to be held if at all.

Thanks again!

 

IIRC, there is a C-Best setting for that.

 

You need to turn the RDS off. I'm pretty sure it's press-and-hold to turn it off (should beep).

The RDS is digital data about each station that our radios can receive and decode. Shows the channel name, genre, etc. on the screen.

If it's enabled, the antenna will always be up, to receive the data. If you turn it off, you don't get the exta info on the screen, but the antenna is only up when you need it.

 

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding...you WIN!!!

That's exactly what it was! I turned it on for info in the station. You do need to hold it in until it beeps and then viola...antenna went down. It was driving me crazy!

I then had something else weird happen driving on the highway and I went to turn up the volume a tad and it wouldn't turn up or down. I could use the other button to cycle through the bass, treble, etc, but it wouldn't allow me to change those settings either, but everything else worked??? I powered the head unit off and back on...no difference. When I got home I shut the car off and started it back up and all is well???

Now I'm even more confused!

 

This is great! I never listen to the radio, always use iTouch. Have always wondered how to stop the antenna from going up. Now I know.

 

On my 06 even with the RDS on the antenna goes down with the CD on. It is not always up.

 

I think the difference is the Vais SLU iPod interface for the '02 uses the FM to cycle between FM1, FM2, Aux1 and Aux2. When I select CD, the antenna goes down, but I can't listen to the iPod.

 

Interesting. On both my 02 and now my 05, I only listen to CD or iPod via the Vais unit (I had the SLU on the 02) and antenna NEVER goes up. Antenna only goes up when I hit FM or the MODE button. mmmmmm???

 

Could it be that your RDS was turned off? With RDS off, my antenna only goes up when I hit FM now.

 

I've had this glitch happen in my 03 also. The only way I found to get the volume control to work again was to cycle the ignition. It's annoying, but it's only happened to me 2 or 3 times...and not in a very long time, now that I think about it.

 

My SC's Antenna only goes up when the radio is on. It stay down else time