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#71779 01/16/01 10:11 PM
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This may be a stupid question (or just a stupid person asking a question) but is the power antenna supposed to go down when the radio is switched off? Mine only goes down when the ignition is turned off and not when I turn the radio off. If it was designed that way, it seems pretty assinine (sp?) to me... I wanted to find this out because I'm getting the factory HU replaced in a couple of weeks because it eats and spits out my CDs when it feels like it... One more thing to chalk up for warranty among too many others. Thanks guys.

#71780 01/17/01 12:14 AM
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I have an SVT which came with the "premium" sound system. The power antenna goes down whenever I turn-off the head unit (though not when I am using the CD player). If I turn-off the head unit, it retracts despite the fact that the car's ignition is on. It has always and still does work this way even with my current aftermarket head unit.

If you take out your headunit, you will see a green lead feed into the radio . . it is the wire for the power antenna. There are also red wires for constant power and an (orange?) wire for ignition power (in addition to some other ground and dimmer lines). Somewhere along the assembly line, I wouldn't be surprised if somebody crossed or mixed-up the wiring for the power antenna with something else like the orange ignition power lead.

Alternatively, if the antenna does go down when you turn-off your radio, the problem may possibly lie with your factory radio, and will probably rectify itself when you install your aftermarket head unit.

If this isnt't the case, and/or your antenna still doesn't go down when you want it to, you can always manually bypass it by installing an in-line switch along the green lead (you can get one from Radio Shack pretty cheaply). Even though mine doesn't have a problem retracting when the radio is off, I installed a bypass switch nonetheless so that I could retract it when I am listening to CDs and not the radio.

#71781 01/18/01 05:15 PM
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Ford seemed to do everything wrong when they built the stereo for the tour. They couldn't even do the antenna right. In my VW, the antenna only went up with the radio, In my brother's tour, the antenna goes up with the deck power... stupid. They should have embedded it into the glass like the Japanese!

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