Defender wing mounted aerial - fitted image

[pidsy]

Ordered an OEM aerial - LR030590 to go on a defender - it’s got the standard bottom mount but the wire comes out of the aerial above the mount and runs upwards.
I can’t work out how it fits without having a cable flapping about.

The truck has a nasty chrome after market one with bottom exit cable. So want to put the correct one on but
I can’t find any images of one fitted.

[Bill]

The way that's pictured is upside down, surely? The thick black bit contains the extending aerial that comes up from the chromed end.

[pidsy]

That would certainly explain a lot!

I thought it was a flexi - rubber aerial.

[NDA]

Classic.

[eybic]

[warch]

It's an extender! /Partridge/

I haven't seen a powered aerial since the late 90s. IRRC they are much more effective than bee sting or rear screen aerials though.

[pidsy]

Bloody glad it’s not my truck - it’s my boss’s. He gave me a pic and I ordered it for him.

The result - I look like a cock on PH (again).

And now I have to send it back as he wants a rubber one.

:getscoat:

[pidsy]

so...

lets just forget about my minor cock-up

does anyone have a recommendation for a decent rubber aerial?

[Bill]

pidsy said:

And now I have to send it back as he wants a rubber one.

[pidsy]

Bill said:

pidsy said:

And now I have to send it back as he wants a rubber one.

It sounds worse than it is.

[100SRV]

pidsy said:

so...

lets just forget about my minor cock-up

does anyone have a recommendation for a decent rubber aerial?

The one on our Defender is from Halfords.
Make sure that the panel you fit it to is clean so that the antenna earth is good - otherwise poor reception is the result.

See this thread:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=15...