Radio aerial's Kaput- Poor reception

[CoupeWannabeS2]

Thanks Jamo & Ant - much apreciated.

I had thought about getting a new aerial, but couldnt get to the nut for taking the old one off, so figured the booster might be a solution.

Just another quick question, how do I avoid amplifying the booster and the aerial ? Would it cause damage if this was done by mistake ?

:-)

[Graham]

Has anyone ever fitted the shark fin style airiels to an s2, i like the look of them on the BMW's and wondered if i could get one to fit the S2.

[CoupeWannabeS2]

Update on radio reception...

... Just fitted the booster I bought on Ebay and it works a treat. Cant believe I have been driving around with no radio for a year before getting it sorted.

If anyone else has a poor radio reception, I would really suggest trying one of these boosters. Mine only cost £9 and can be fitted in 5 mins. Looking forward to tuning into Radio 1 on the drive to work :-)

[Chris5044]

just tried this booster ..... nothing ... this booster is ****.....

can someone please explain this aditional feed that is needed for the aerial? ... it is mentioned earlier but got no clue

I dont wanna fork more cash on other bits when i dont need them

[s2driveruk]

any clever ways to remove the nut to get the old bas eout, mine is stuck fast and currently f**king the paint in an effort to get the damn thing to budge

[Paulgo]

Is there a standard route for the ariel cable down from the beesting to the head unit? Ive just put a booster in at the head unit end and noticed zero difference so I need to check the actual ariel feed. Last time I had the back seat up I couldnt see any obvious looking cable as I expected. On the cq20v it ran along the top on the tranmission tunnel and was easilly visible. The wiring in this car has seen some action tho!

cheers

Paul

[Greg_S]

Where is the best place to get an original fit antenna for the coupe's these days and how much does it cost? I went to GSF today and theres are universal ones that dont have the correct aerial connector on and I can do without the hassle of changing the aerial connector aswell.

[ab1]

Here is what I did to fix my corroded roof aerial amp:

http://zeroprobability.blogspot.com/2010/01/procedure-for-replacing-audi-a3-arial.html

Cheers!

[93URS4Avant]

I have a UrS4 Avant and with anything other than the standard audi foot long ariel all other reception is woeful. bought a few stub ariels off of ebay but these are more or less useless unless in central london. It just seems that it has poor reception...

[Colesy]

Just bought one of the Vauxhall aerial bases from the above example from ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

The seller has plenty of them and they are OEM Vauxhall ones so should do the job nicely.