Where do I buy a new aerial?

[shnozz]

a while back some little git half inched my aerial. Havent bothered replacing it as yet as it makes no difference to radio reception (not sure if its wired up right) and I normally stick to either CD's (motorway) or the exhaust (everywhere else)

Cosmetically i cant decide if it looks better or a bit silly as there is the mounting and no aerial. Anyways, if I do decide to replace it - anyone know where i get one and what car it is off? Its not the electric jobbie, just a screw in black aerial. The screw appears smaller that the ones for sale in the Pax Mower section of Halfords though

[roy c]

Havent bothered replacing it as yet as it makes no difference to radio reception

Correct, as the cable from the radio to the aerial (about 6 feet in the false sill) acts as a good FM aerial.

Cosmetically i cant decide if it looks better or a bit silly as there is the mounting and no aerial.

I originally replaced the electric aerial (after rebuilding it several times - Italian electrics!) with one of those cheap Halfords rubber aerials - made no difference. Eventually I removed it and capped the hole with a chrome bolt dome.

[shnozz]

thanks for that Roy - do you recall where you got the chrome ball top?

[johno]

Aerial Shop ?

[GreenV8S]

a while back some little git half inched my aerial. Havent bothered replacing it as yet as it makes no difference to radio reception (not sure if its wired up right) and I normally stick to either CD's (motorway) or the exhaust (everywhere else)

Cosmetically i cant decide if it looks better or a bit silly as there is the mounting and no aerial. Anyways, if I do decide to replace it - anyone know where i get one and what car it is off? Its not the electric jobbie, just a screw in black aerial. The screw appears smaller that the ones for sale in the Pax Mower section of Halfords though

I've got a bog standard motorized aerial on mine, definitely works better up than down, still only moderately good when it's up though. Got noticeably worse when the earth fell off (and better when I put it back on, of course!). When I disconnect the aerial I get no signal at all, which is what I expected: coax aerial is specifically designed not to pick signals up isn't it?

Peter Humphries (and a green V8S)

[roy c]

There's a nut and bolt in the aerial hole. The dome came from a nut & bolt stall at an autojumble.

[shpub]

The 520 lost its motorised aerial when it went on a diet. Saved around 4 lbs. The current hi tech aerial developed after about 3 seconds of intensive R&D is the coax with about 1 metre of the shoud removed and the inner cable taped inside the boot at the back inside the top horizontal edge.

Works just as well as the original.