Disabling The Aerial Motor

June 12, 2006

:help: The Aerial's making a crunching noise when it's went all the up (like it doesn't realise that it's all the way up and is still trying to extend it), it stops after a few seconds and does go down fine. I think it's the plastic bit inside that motor connects to that has lost it's bottom teeth so the motor doesn't get any resistance when it's all the way up and doesn't know when to stop.

So I was thinking of just disabling the motor that controls it so that it's up all the time, has anyone ever done this? is it easy to do?

If anyone has, I'd love some pointers on how to get at the motor.

If anyone else has any other possible solutions to this problem please voice them.

Thanks. :thumbsup:

June 12, 2006

The Aerial's making a crunching noise when it's went all the up (like it doesn't realise that it's all the way up and is still trying to extend it), it stops after a few seconds and does go down fine. I think it's the plastic bit inside that motor connects to that has lost it's bottom teeth so the motor doesn't get any resistance when it's all the way up and doesn't know when to stop.
So I was thinking of just disabling the motor that controls it so that it's up all the time, has anyone ever done this? is it easy to do?
If anyone has, I'd love some pointers on how to get at the motor.
If anyone else has any other possible solutions to this problem please voice them.
Thanks.

Well i pulled the power from the headunit to stop it going up and down , but i hate the radio and never use it :)

Maybe you could pull the red wire from the head unit to stop it oing up and down (when its up) and leave the large aerial wire plugged in ?????? no idea

Shouldnt be too hard to kill the power too it , unfortunatly though i dont know how :D

Mikeb or Dak will be more helpful i bet !

June 12, 2006

If you remove the power lead from the back of the headunit with the aerial up it will simply retract itself. :yes:

Once the aerial is up you need to remove the side trim in the boot area and simply disconnect the plugs (2 iirc :unsure: ) to the aerial motor. :thumbsup:

Actually there might be a fuse for it, but i don`t know where you`d find it. :unsure:

June 12, 2006

I unplugged the power from the aerial, and plugged the aerial wire into a cheap arial from Halfords that I could extend up the inside of the car:

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June 13, 2006

I unplugged the power from the aerial, and plugged the aerial wire into a cheap arial from halfords that I could extend up the inside of the car:
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Hmmmm, interesting idea. Do you still get a good enough reception?

June 13, 2006

Its not bad, but I never had much of a strong signal round mine anyhow, works fine on those motorway trecks though. Had to make sure it was quite a long aerial that'd extend far into the body. I think bibbs had a better idea of just running aerial lead around the edge of the boot inside the seal or somthing.