does the stock antenna run off vaccum? i'm try to get it to work, but dont know what the line going to the bottem of it is. if it does this shits sucks because somebody cut the line way low. please let me know asap.
stock antenna HELP
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ok, so i looked at my parts car and the line just ends in the fender. so now i have a new question. where is this relay for the dam antenna? i can't seem to find it. wtf.
do you guys with aftermarket decks use the stock antenna? i'm thinking its not wired up to the deck. the car came with the deck btw. i couldn't stand that ugly antenna that was on there, so i put it on anyway even though it doesn't go up. i don't really use the radio anyway. it was mainly cosmetic. oh and i just realize sm has a audio section. oops.
Yep, stock antenna her with an aftermarket deck.
Most aftermarket decks have a wire that will go to trigger the antenna to go up. If it's not connected it's not gonna work...
Most aftermarket decks have a wire that will go to trigger the antenna to go up. If it's not connected it's not gonna work...
the aftermarket headunit should have the antenna wire. it will either say "antenna" or will be colorcoated
I stopped using my mast antennae years ago.
I pulled the whole usless bent mess out and connected to the A/M antennae fitting in the rear window.
I pulled the whole usless bent mess out and connected to the A/M antennae fitting in the rear window.
if you have a factory amp under the passenger seat you may have to find the wire that runs to that amp and rewire it so you will bypass the amp connections. or just find the wire were the head unit is and just wire it to the amp/antenna wire on your new head unit it should work that way too
I have kind of a "creative" solution for my antenna: When I decided to get rid of my 89LX 5.0 and get yet another Supra back in '01--something for which some of my domestic-loving friends still haven't forgiven me--I decided to swap over as many of the parts as I could, including the high-end Alpine CD player, amps, speaker separates, sub box, etc. Thing is, I really didn't want to use a power antenna in my 88 Turbo, as I'd had "a few problems" with the power antennas in the other Supras I had. I started by removing the factory power antenna and I filled the antenna hole. Next, I removed the steel mast-style antenna from my Mustang (from which I was still removing performance parts), as well as the antenna receptacle in the passenger side fender and the antenna cable that plugged into the bottom of the receptacle. I spliced the Mustang's antenna cable into the Supra's antenna cable and plugged it into the Mustang's antenna receptacle, connected everything properly, then jammed the Mustang's steel antenna mast into the Supra's rear passenger fender. I screwed the steel mast into the mast receptacle, then made sure everything was hooked up properly one last time. Upon making POSITIVELY sure that everything was right, I clicked on my Alpine to see how well all this worked. For all but the weakest FM stations, this actually worked perfectly...signal loss was pretty much nonexistent. To pull in the weakest stations out there, I added a powered FM antenna booster to this setup, just to be on the safe side. Granted, AM reception absolutely sucks, but unless I'm trying to pull in KMOX (a very large news/talk station) for any sort of weather report, I'm not really interested in AM reception--and AM is positionally-based, rather than antenna based, sooooooo...
It's a "creative solution", but it's worked well for me...
It's a "creative solution", but it's worked well for me...
yeah, i'm not too worried about it being that out here we have about 3 radio stations and they all suck ass. i just didn't want this gigantic flag poll sticking off the back of my car. one of these days i might bother to get it to work. thanks for the replies.