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Heated? rear quarter light

Discussion in 'Gen 1 Prius Plug-in 2012-2015' started by Sagitar, Jan 20, 2014.

  1. Sagitar

    Sagitar Junior Member

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    The offside rear quarter light on my right-hand-drive PiP has what appears to be a heating element similar to the one on the rear window.

    I cannot find any reference to it in the handbook and I'm puzzled why it is there.

    Any ideas?
     
    #1 Sagitar, Jan 20, 2014
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    This question seems to come up from time to time....
    It's an imbedded antenna for the radio.
     
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    Its called a grid antenna just like ny_rob stated.
     
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    it's an antennae to detect....... Zombies proximity, then the self destruct gets activated...
     
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    good thing Toyota is keeping it real by warning us of... Zombies
     
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  6. Sagitar

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    Thanks very much. I thought it might be something like that, but it's still a bit puzzling because the car has a normal antenna on the roof.
     
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    On the PiP there is:

    1) An AM/FM antenna for conventional radio.

    2) A GPS antenna for the navigation system.

    3) A Sirius/XM satellite radio antenna.

    4) On the Advanced, a cellular antenna for the Safety Connect radio, which also supports the Advanced Applications such as vehicle locating and charge management.
     
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    and there is another for HD radio, and XM/Sirius reception and another for Cellular communication for the Advanced model ....
     
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    CharlesH CA HOV Decal #5 on former PiP

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    As I understand how HD radio works, it is on the same frequency as standard AM/FM, just squeezing a digital signal in the same channel as the conventional analog signal. So I don't think that a separate antenna is needed for HD Radio.
     
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    The roof mounted antenna is for radio and XM (IIRC, the XM antenna module appears in the service manual at the base of the roof mounted anntena). The window grid antenna is there for (radio) antenna diversity, I believe

    Antenna diversity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     
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    It's the "diversity antenna" so you do have more than one AM/FM antenna. It's for better radio reception.
     
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    My thanks for all the responses.

    I feel much better informed.

    Best wishes.
     
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    Any idea where these are?
     
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    The navigation antenna is under the dash, on the driver side, it looks like (the following image is of the upper dash assembly, flipped over, notice were the center 2 air vents are)

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    #14 Tracksyde, Jan 21, 2014
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