Antenna stopped raising and lowering
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Topic: Antenna stopped raising and lowering
Posted By: cpgoose
Subject: Antenna stopped raising and lowering
Date Posted: March 11, 2003 at 12:18 PM
Hey...any hints would be cool. I have a '92 Integrawith the power antenna in the rear. When you turnon the radio, it goes up...when you turn it off, itgoes down. Suddenly, it doesn't go up or down anymore,but you can hear the motor running each time. Any hintson what this means? Did the antenna disconnect? I wasthinking if the motor was dead, I wouldn't hear anything.
thanks.
by the way, it's not frozen or anything. It's actuallyin the up position, and I can push it up and down about 6",but no more than that (like all the way down).
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Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: March 11, 2003 at 3:38 PM
You need to replace the antenna. THis happened to my Integra about 2 years ago & I replaced it with a universal type and it's been great since.
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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: March 13, 2003 at 1:30 PM
So just the antenna, and not the motor or anything?Did the antenna just brake or something?
Posted By: Jussi
Date Posted: March 14, 2003 at 3:04 PM
So just the antenna, and not the motor or anything? Did the antenna just brake or something?
Usually it's the whole system which you have to replace :-(
JL
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Installer/Owner
JL-Autosound
Helsinki, FINLAND
Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: March 14, 2003 at 4:34 PM
The antenna didn't break, just started to jam in the middle and I replaced the whole thing. They are cheap to replace and easy to get to as well.
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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: March 17, 2003 at 6:32 AM
sorry, but did you just replace the antenna, or the motor as well? Never did this before, so I wasn't suer if I could just buy an antenna, or the antenna and motor.
thanks 
Posted By: sufferrar
Date Posted: March 17, 2003 at 6:51 AM
You have to replace the entire unit. Thera is a plastic type of coil with gear teeth on it . it extends into the antenna to allow it to retract and go up. this plastic material usually breaks after a few years. you can try to get a kit that supply this coil and replace it if you're willing to take it a part.
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"I'm So Loud It Hertz"
Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: March 18, 2003 at 8:09 PM
Just replace the whole thing. There are rebuild kits available but it's too much work considering a new antenna is only about $ 30.00 .
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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: March 30, 2003 at 7:52 PM
Hi....I checked the auto store by me, and the new setup was about $60+. That was a bit much, so I also heard that I could just take out the antenna and put in a new one (with new teeth). But I just wanted to inspect first, and I couldn't get the antenna out. Here's some pictures. I got the nut off the top, and then the black spacer part, but then the antenna wouldn't just pull out. What am I missing? Is there more to unscrew?
https://www.angelfire.com/nj4/cpgoose/antenna.html
Posted By: busabusa
Date Posted: March 30, 2003 at 8:07 PM
I bought a brand new Hirschmann in sealed box with all the extra's on bay for 30.00 . Go look there , Fixing these things is not worth it as far as I am concerned .
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Thanks,Rick Phillips
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: March 31, 2003 at 11:27 AM
I'm assuming you meant ebay?
So was it the whole kit....motor and new antenna and everything?
Posted By: busabusa
Date Posted: March 31, 2003 at 12:04 PM
Yes I meant E-Bay (: I got this one here a great kit cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/dll?ViewItem&item=2408996395&category=6763 I looked around on there and found them for as little as 5.00,hundreds of them.
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Thanks,Rick Phillips
Posted By: busabusa
Date Posted: March 31, 2003 at 12:11 PM
That link did not work ,just go to E-Bay and search power antenna and you will see about 12 pages of them.
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Thanks,Rick Phillips
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: March 31, 2003 at 12:15 PM
Cool, thanks. I checked out the link you sent...it worked for me. Did yours fit fine? The one in the link says it comes with like 5 other additional mount heads.
That would be cool to find one for $5.00 
Posted By: busabusa
Date Posted: March 31, 2003 at 1:06 PM
I was suprized with the 5 different head mounts I got and it fit and worked perfect,a real nice setup I put it on my Kelmark GT kit car. ------------- Thanks,Rick Phillips
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: March 31, 2003 at 1:25 PM
Posted By: busabusa
Date Posted: March 31, 2003 at 4:02 PM
Hmm,never seen any like that, every bought from that company?
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Thanks,Rick Phillips
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: April 01, 2003 at 5:54 AM
Nope, I never bought from them. I was referred to them from another site. A bunch of people had bought them, and thought they were great. They mount it inside the front windshield or on the window in the trunk (so it's obviously always in the car). They said the reception is better than stock :-) I'm not sure though...but it's cheaper than what I saw at the store. (They say you should be able to get them somewhere local, too, like Circuit City or Radio Shack.
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