Poor In Car Sound

Hi, I drive a Ford S-Max [Ford Europe] which has a built in blue tooth system made by Nokia.
Since the 2.2 upgrade the volume and quality of my in-car calls has degraded to the point where I now have to hold the phone in order that the caller can hear me.
Yes I have turned the volume up whilst the call is active.
The greater issue is that the caller thinks that I am sitting in a trash can as the echoeing is so severe.
There were no such complaints with the v2.0 or v2.1 software.
Has anyone suffered a similar problem and is there a solution?
Thanks
Paul Backhouse

I have a Mini (R56) and was having the same issues being reported above. I have found that by increaseing the volume on iPhone to the maximum setting, and having the Aux input volume set at the lower to middle range reduces/eliminates the background noise/static/hiss significantly.
Try this with your car and iPhone 4 to see what I mean:
Start by playing a song with the volume at maximum on your iPhone 4, then decrease the volume one increament at a time. You'll find at one point about 2/3 volume the sound drops off greater and the hiss/static starts. The greater you reduce the volume from this point the great the static noise becomes.
Move volume all the way back up the hiss/static dissapears again.
Hope that helps some people

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