Repairing a power antenna Well, one of my friend was playing with my car's power antenna when he broke it, the antenna broke loose and since he was a friend i just ignored it, when my car got painted the vacant power antenna slot looked very odd,
so i went to mitsu A S S and as usual the part is not available so i just asked for the price and he said 4k + so i had a good reason to ignore that vacant slot where the antenna belonged. But the A S S guy gave me a phone number to call who deals with local power antenna and other car accessories, i was planning a weekend at wife place in trichur so i thought let me also try the pattalam market which is the biggest junk yard market in kerala, well the shopkeepers were very funny there, they wanted 4k for a 10 year old power antenna from a totaled car, i left the place cursing my friend who broke it. so when i reached back i called this dealer and he had the antenna available for 1k with fitting and gave me a 6 months replacement warranty on it. I was happy, wife used to look through the rear view mirror on her side every time the antenna went up/down. But wait this is not a the end, exactly 3 days after sixth month of installation the antenna stopped going up. so took it back and he was nice to examine it and said the board is gone so only option is to buy a new one, Well i didnt want to pay for the same piece of crap again so i headed home, on the way home i got an idea and decided to swap working parts from my old mits antenna. well the mitsu antenna is bigger and heavy and after 10 years i still hear the motor whine so let me repair this one for a comparison between the two
Tools used
Opened the power antenna
The antenna is a lot like those id card retractor pulleys, they were easy to understand, i took the metal antenna from the local one and installed it in the Mitsu one and guess what it works. Well did the DIY end there? No it didn't. I also painted the rocker arm cover matt black and stuck a ralliart sticker on top of the mitsu logo.
Well, thanks for reading, sorry for not posting detailed step by step images as the antenna had a lot of grease and i didnt want to spoil my camera.
Pramod
Last edited by pramodkumar : 6th August 2010 at 13:43.
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