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jfmika
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Folks,
My power antenna got broken off and I want to replace it with a manual antenna - I'm sick of the full height antenna getting caught on trees etc and breaking, so I'm just going to have one 1/2 up all the time.
Anyway, I replaced a manual antenna once on my old VS wagon - no trouble. However, yesterday I tried it on the VYII and I got stymied by the wheel arch lining (I assume that the best way is through the wheel arch... please tell me that there isn't some magic door somewhere!!)
The "inner" row of screws on the lining turned out not to respond to a screwdriver. Asking around at work today, someone suggested that they might actually be press clips. Is that true? If so, will they come out easily? Is there a trick to it?
One final thing... after I take out my old power antenna, do I need to somehow disable the power up/down mechanism (ie. pull out a fuse or something), or can I just terminate the various power wires etc in a terminal block or something similar?
thanks for any and all advice,
Joachim Mika.
My power antenna got broken off and I want to replace it with a manual antenna - I'm sick of the full height antenna getting caught on trees etc and breaking, so I'm just going to have one 1/2 up all the time.
Anyway, I replaced a manual antenna once on my old VS wagon - no trouble. However, yesterday I tried it on the VYII and I got stymied by the wheel arch lining (I assume that the best way is through the wheel arch... please tell me that there isn't some magic door somewhere!!)
The "inner" row of screws on the lining turned out not to respond to a screwdriver. Asking around at work today, someone suggested that they might actually be press clips. Is that true? If so, will they come out easily? Is there a trick to it?
One final thing... after I take out my old power antenna, do I need to somehow disable the power up/down mechanism (ie. pull out a fuse or something), or can I just terminate the various power wires etc in a terminal block or something similar?
thanks for any and all advice,
Joachim Mika.