My partner got me a front & rear dash cam for Xmas, which I finally got round to having installed yesterday by a garage. The car is a Mazda 6.
Travelling to Nottingham straight after installation and the DAB radio kept dropping out every couple of minutes and just can't keep the reception. On googling, it seems a common thing, that the RF interference from the dash cam interferes with the radio (wish I knew about these things prior to having it installed...
) . It was mentioned the rear cam can be the worse culprit as the power wire can be routed near the antenna.
So on the way home last night I unplugged the rear camera, and though the radio was slightly better it did still struggle and is still unusable. As soon as I switched the front camera off, had uninterrupted radio all the way home.
Should I call the garage back and see if they can do anything?
I did read that rerouting the power cable to the rear cam can help, but since the radio still doesn't work properly with just the front camera on, I can see that's not going to be a complete solution.
The other thing mentioned were RF chokes, will this work as that would be a simple solution?
Travelling to Nottingham straight after installation and the DAB radio kept dropping out every couple of minutes and just can't keep the reception. On googling, it seems a common thing, that the RF interference from the dash cam interferes with the radio (wish I knew about these things prior to having it installed...
) . It was mentioned the rear cam can be the worse culprit as the power wire can be routed near the antenna.So on the way home last night I unplugged the rear camera, and though the radio was slightly better it did still struggle and is still unusable. As soon as I switched the front camera off, had uninterrupted radio all the way home.
Should I call the garage back and see if they can do anything?
I did read that rerouting the power cable to the rear cam can help, but since the radio still doesn't work properly with just the front camera on, I can see that's not going to be a complete solution.
The other thing mentioned were RF chokes, will this work as that would be a simple solution?
