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General discussionHow to repair a broken car antenna?(23 posts)solved(23 posts)solved
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Posted March 28, 2016
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timppu: Any other ideas?
Buy a new car.
Posted March 28, 2016
OH YEAH!
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Posted March 28, 2016
You can use a magnet CB whip antenna as well. Same concept, just rewire the lead from your broken one to the whip (simple process). Two things, assumes you have one lying around or feel like buying one (certainly cheap) and its a bit Sanford and Son, but it works.

Personally, if you have a common model as you mentioned, visit your local dump. Just unscrew it from a wrecker. I would be shocked if they charged you.
Post edited March 28, 2016 by muttly13
Posted March 28, 2016
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JudasIscariot: pull the part you need off, and save money that way :)
Of course thats the "Thievin' Bastard"'s suggestion :P
Posted March 28, 2016
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nightcraw1er.488: It should just be a matter of heating it up. You could also try the local car wreckers, they may have a car like yours and sell you the ariel for next to nothing.
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timppu: Good idea, why didn't I think of that? Those guys obviously don't advertise their antennas on Google, only the 60€ sellers do here.
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nightcraw1er.488: As for the ariel, what do you use a car attenae for? I can 't even remember seeing them on cars nowadays.
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timppu: Not sure if sarcastic, but for radio I guess. :) Without the antenna the receiving is pretty poor, when I go even a bit to rural areas, it doesn't pick much anymore. Ok in cities.

I guess in newer cars they have those small solid antennas which look like a small "rudder" on top of the car. I wish I had one, but my stupid car still had one of those old-fashioned whip antennas which you have to remember to detach before washing your car at the gas station.
Yep, definately check out scrap dealers then. I hadn't realised that they now hide the antenne in the shell, probably why I hadn't seen them in a long time.
Posted March 28, 2016
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JudasIscariot: You don't have pick'n'pulls in Finland? Serious question as you can usually visit a scrapyard, pull the part you need off, and save money that way :)
Or visit a parking lot... ;)
Posted March 28, 2016
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JudasIscariot: You don't have pick'n'pulls in Finland? Serious question as you can usually visit a scrapyard, pull the part you need off, and save money that way :)
I guess we have, I've just never seen nor visited one, I can't even tell where they would be. I usually leave my old car to the car dealer when I buy a newer one, he compensates some money for it. No idea what happens to it after that.

Dunno, maybe we don't scrap old cars here but sell them to Russia or something. Just like Germans sell their old cars to us (people here used to travel to Germany to buy used cars, as the taxes are so much lower there so you can get a much better car for the same money).
Post edited March 28, 2016 by timppu
Posted March 29, 2016
Already solved but what the hell. If it's one of those older retractable antennas, you can buy a replacement insert for the up-down part. It's basically a flexible piece of plastic cable, machined with teeth on one side, that wraps around a motorized sprocket in the drive assembly. Around the plastic bit is the telescoping steel bit. When I did it, the toughest part was getting to the drive unit. Once that's out, the replacement of the antenna is simple.
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