Antenna skipping gears when cold????

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Topic: Antenna skipping gears when cold????

Posted By: TheRapture
Subject: Antenna skipping gears when cold????
Date Posted: January 23, 2003 at 8:19 AM

Ok, i've got an electric antenna.... when the radio it ON and the antenna goes UP... it goes up about 1/2 way then starts going CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK, like it's skipping gears... maybe like something is holding the antenna down.

then when the radio is off and the antenna retracts back down... it goes all the way down then CLICK CLICK CLICK again...

so i had a friend turn the radio on and when the antenna went up, i pulled it to help it out, it extended all the way without any clicking... then turned the radio off to see if it retracts all the way... it gets about 3 inches from the bottom then starts clicking again.

what is the problem here? do i need to 3in1 oil up the antenna so it's easier to retact? or what?

o yeah, this only happins when the weather is less then 20F and right now it's -3 DAMN COLD!

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Posted By: cerwinvega19
Date Posted: January 23, 2003 at 2:25 PM

Yeah my mom has a 94 integra and it is cold as hell and it dosen't even work. it just stays up and you hear the motor working but it dose not move, i guess is it is frozen. Oh and u say it is dam cold, over here in Toronto it is -20C, and about -4F.

Posted By: TheRapture
Date Posted: January 23, 2003 at 3:03 PM

dammit, you beat me by a degree! juse wait till tonightwhen it's -20 :)

Posted By: cerwinvega19
Date Posted: January 23, 2003 at 9:06 PM

lol

Posted By: SOUND PRESSURE
Date Posted: January 23, 2003 at 9:45 PM

Hey we are hitting the low teen's to low 20's in FLORIDA. Yeah can you believe that?

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Sound Pressure

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Posted By: themagicone
Date Posted: January 24, 2003 at 12:21 AM

damn you got it easy, -20 here with a -40 windchill. Tower, MN -35 actual air temp.

Posted By: SOUND PRESSURE
Date Posted: January 24, 2003 at 12:38 AM

Yeah and I am used to Chicago's windy city weather and the weather that we have here in Florida is like a heat wave compared to up north.

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Sound Pressure

You know you have the right amount of pressure when your eyes start to water! Now you've got Juice!

Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: January 24, 2003 at 8:07 AM

Ooh, can I play, too? It was 9 here in the morning. My integra does the same thing when it's very cold....the antenna won't extend all the way, and won't go down all the way. I considered spraying it with something, but never got around to it. Usually, I'll just leave it.