Aerial

wedge69 · Post by **wedge69** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:15 am

My aerial has taken on a life of it's own. When I turned my radio on last night, there was no noise from the motor. Bugger - I thought the motor was broken. However, when I got home after 40 miles, I turned it on and off, on and off, on and off, and after the fourth go, the aerial went up!

This morning, when I went to work, I turned it on, and agian, the aerial would not go up. I left the radio switched on to listen to a tape. Half way to work, the stereo symbol appears, and looking in my wing mirror - the aerial has come up!

Then when I get to work and turn it off, there is no sound from the motor and it stays up! Until I get out, lock the car, and walk away. At which point the aerial goes down!

Now to me, this sounds like a duff connection somewhere. If this is the case, where is the best place to start looking?

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:25 am

pull the radio out and check the wires.

gerrsvolvo · Post by **gerrsvolvo** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:41 am

And check the connections at the aerial on corrosion
and the aerial istself on dirt, clean and oil the up and down going aerialparts.
Good CEM
Gerrsvoolvo

lee · Post by **lee** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 6:39 pm

Sounds to me like a bad connection in the switch wire which runs from your radio to the aerial. If you have checked all the connections along this route and all seems to be good. Then i would disconnect the aerial from the radio and power the arial from the aerail. If the aerial goes up then the problem is at the radio side.

hereagain · Post by **hereagain** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 7:23 pm

Strange,
I have the same problem...just after I posted earlier to give some advice on replacing. I too suspect the problem is at the radio end rather than at the ariel... Good Luck!!!

wedge69 · Post by **wedge69** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:03 am

Gay thing is, I haven't got the 'U' shaped clips to take the radio out.

Anything else I can use?

kirsty_2003 · Post by **kirsty_2003** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:23 am

do you think it would be easy to fit a bee-sting arieal on my car?

Ben Harris · Post by **Ben Harris** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:43 pm

I used four long (about 3") nails to take the radio out of my 480, all pressed in at the same time to release the clips.

Ben.

pol · Post by **pol** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 3:27 pm

Why would you want to fit a bee sting aerial kirsty?? Have u not got the electric one?

pol

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 5:31 pm

pop rivets, same method as Ben.

Ben Harris · Post by **Ben Harris** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 7:50 pm

chris1roll wrote:pop rivets, same method as Ben.

... which was the method suggested to me by Chris, when I asked the same question a while ago!

Ben.

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:45 pm

oh yeah.........

kirsty_2003 · Post by **kirsty_2003** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:54 am

pol wrote:Why would you want to fit a bee sting aerial kirsty?? Have u not got the electric one?

pol

er not anymore i dont

the motor works,,,, just the erm, er, the actual metal bit is kinda, erm bent