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Dropped the 996 off this morning, noticed something about the radio reception whilst on the way there.
I use this to hold my iPhone so that I can use the sat-nav, charging the phone at the same time:
What I noticed was this - set off, radio reception was (for once) fine. Got to roughly Woking and noticed that my phone wasn't charging.
Pushed the charger deeper into the cigarette lighter socket - lightning bolt icon appeared on phone, and at exactly the same time the radio reception went to sh*t.
Experimented by pulling the cable out of the phone but leaving the charger fully in the socket - radio reception immediately better again.
Now I didn't have a chance to fully test this, but from what little time I did have (Woking to Chobham) was quite compelling.
So I may have changed the antenna amplifier and made Precision chase around the car for a fault that was actually in the phone charger - plus purchasing a replacement stereo to use whilst the Becker was "fixed".
I am feeling (potentially) a little silly at this point.
Still, c'est la vie.