install new aerial and remove the plastic mud guard inners

Looks a bit familiar. You prob won't need a hundred of them tho

When trying to unscrew them (before someone buggers the head) try to prise a flat screwdriver under the head and give it some upward pressure to help the plastic thread grip the outer 'sleeve' it's in so that it comes out whole and you get more chance of re-using it. Tip for next time maybe.

Oh yeah.....and good like trying the aerial. Pretty sure there's a 'How To' on here and more than one thread bitching about the job. I'll be on at least one of those.

 

Cut them off with some pliers. Remove the panel. You can buy the replacement scrivets at Supercrap or Repco etc. in those packs that hang from a wobbly rotating tower.

 

Now I'm putting this job off as well........again.
My aerial is bent to buggery again !
Last time I tried just the 'Rope and Post' which had 3 of us working on it and def did NOT fit.
Then I tried a few full aftermarket units which were supposed to plug straight in, and DIDN'T. (Cutting wires and bending bits is NOT a direct replacement).
So now I'm really not looking to go through the whole process again !!!
(It's bent at a decent angle to match the A-pillar actually so if I stick a load of Epoxy in there and glue the aerial to the Bezel surround then I just have to buy a surround in case I want to fix it better later. What a lazy B*stard I am !)

If anyone has bought a unit that IS actually plug and play please let us know, thanks.

OP keep us posted. (Who will put it off for the longest time . Mine still actually works to receive signal and I usually listen to my own USB input anyway. )

Hey good tip , thanks.

 

Are you talking the aerial unit or the screws? I have an aerial unit sitting in garage waiting to go in that looks identical to the stock unit.

I haven't put it in yet due to laziness/the old one started working again... My issue was not going all the way down, now it is again.

vt vx vy vz electric aerial - $95

 

yeah I'm talking whole unit now. 'Post and rope' should do the job but in my experience didn't !

Thanks for the link.
So that's over a hundred bucks when I add postage. To fix a bent bit.........bugger. I seem to recall having to work my way up in the ebay market to something $80 or over. That was from an 'Overstock' shop and it seems they have no 'overstock aerials now.


You still just going to keep your's spare for when you do actually need it ?

 

From what i have read the aftermarket aerials dont fit correctly. I got a 2nd hand one for $40 dlvd fully electric genuine.

 

Yeah there's a lot that don't fit, which is why I am hating having to look at this again and even half thinking of glueing the bugger on to the bezel!!?

$40 all up !? Is that a supplier or a once off private sale. (Also for VZ ? isn't there a difference to VX ?)

 

Yea I am. I am positive it will start misbehaving in time.

 

i got one on ebay for$ 50

 

Genuine used with metal body or 'replacement' with plastic body ?

 

Now that's interesting. I would have assumed the one I have in is the stock one, but it has a plastic body same as the replacement.

 

The genuine I took out of mine and every one I've seen with a genuine GM part number on has been a metal body. All the 'replacements' I tried , which includes the one that actually did 'plug and play' finally for $80+ were plastic body.

Yes , interesting.

 

Note there are two different aerials used in the VZ as i found out.

 

........and I think VY series two onward is different from the preceding models but none of that is reflected in sales for aerials "to fit VT -VZ" which is possibly about 3 different types !

 

Looks like I'm going to get on with this project after getting a whole new genuine aerial & motor from a fellow JC member to suit my car instead of buying half a dozen that don't fit off of half wits who don't know.

I got so far as to find out my inner guard scrivets really are screwed. Look like I might have two in the shed I can use so I only *need* two more I think, but I always like to have spares of this sort of thing. SO I looked online.

Looks like it's about $8 for 2 from Supercheap or $8 for 10 on Ebay.AU I'd rather get ten for the money but I can go to S.Cheap and have them tomorrow.

Is that my options or did you (or anyone) find a better deal from a real shop I can find down here near Bega.
Ta.

 

just replaced mine last week, Ariel out off china $29 bucks. fitted straight up after swapping oem plug... but threw it out as it would not stop running when it was fully extended , long term maybe short out.. Replaced with a AEROPRO which I had too use the old mount $130. yes there is two different brackets but the same Ariel assembly ,,, plastic scrivets I brought a **** load off ebay cheap 8mm and 10 mm,,, 100 scrivets for $4 ebay china

 

Have you tried Masters for the scrivets? They have heaps of clips there.