Power Antenna stopped working

[edfiero]

Went to a car show yesterday. Antenna worked fine on the trip there. Coming back home the antenna was dead.

Checked the relay in the glove box, I can see 12 volts there, and the relay clicks when I turn on the radio. Antenna is dead. Makes no noise. (Antenna is a Kirban Rebuild about 2 years old)

What should I check next???

 

[GNVYUS 1]

Cable from radio plugged in, ok etc?

Rare chance but if you had your hood open, sometimes you find the car show sabotager that will mess with your stuff. Heard some stories that are unreal, even at the track and manual boost controllers.

Mario on the board here rebuilds them, I got one and he sent a video showing it works. Could be your cable or motor etc so you never know until you get into it.

 

[salvageV6]

Probably one of the switches inside the antenna itself.
If you have verified the signals are proper out of the relay, it's either the wire to the antenna or the antenna itself which is far more likely.
A search should pull up the wiring diagram.

 

[GNVYUS 1]

Mine was bad pin in the connector, pretty roached out in general, then it was a sticking antenna that some grease helped. The shop still installed the rebuilt by Mario but that was my original issue solved now.

 

[HyperV6]

So the antenna is stuck down right? Do you know if it has a stainless steel cable in it? The motor is not running when it is plugged in? I have had a stainless steel cable get bound up when winding up in the plastic housing. I have also had the switch inside the antenna stop working / not make contact. Let's start there.

Craig

 

[pacecarta]

a clicking relay does not gaurantee its working just that the coil of the relay has 12v and a ground , the contacts have to work and you ned to check for 12v out to the antenna , relay could still be bad when it clicks , tapping the relay in the dash might shake the contacts enough to get it going
did you try the plug under the hood , its not weather proof and the contacts may need cleaning , try unplugging and replugging that connector you can also check for 12v there at the dk green wire , and the antenna works by the relay in the dash grounding the grey wire to go up

 

[pacecarta]

heres the relay mounting

 

[mar86gn]

Went to a car show yesterday. Antenna worked fine on the trip there. Coming back home the antenna was dead.

Checked the relay in the glove box, I can see 12 volts there, and the relay clicks when I turn on the radio. Antenna is dead. Makes no noise. (Antenna is a Kirban Rebuild about 2 years old)

What should I check next???

Check connector pins under hood first for green corrosion, you can also test there direct, to go up , green positive, gray negative, to go down white positive , green negative

Mario