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Shortened Aerial



I always meant to buy a bee sting aerial but never got round to it. I then decided to just cut down the standard aerial and it's made a BIG difference to the car's appearance.

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Hmm, might have to get you to help me out with this one

make sure I don't hash it up I've already had to buy one aerial from VW (my god they're expensive) when some punk actually unscrewed it and ran off while I was in a queue on the road and in the car!

I just didn't twig why he was standing behind my car!

Mole did this for me yesterday after I made 'the muck up' last time

Looks much better, and it doesn't cost anything! (if you don't break it! )

i did this to my corrado as dont like the metal ones. one night ages ago the car was parked in town and the aerial got nicked. bought a replacement from halford for a tenner and chopped it down before i stuck it on. instant improvement!! The halfords one is also neater than stock with no messy wire running round it.

Did it to her polo as soon as she bought it along with all the other initial free mods

I done this but found it hard to get the end bit back on!! When I get some free time gonna do it agen on my vw one (the one on theres from the breakers coz i didnt wanna muck the good one up).

Any help would be good on getting the end back on

Cheers Dan

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someone explain how to do this please

What do you want to know?

well apparently the whole antenna bit can come out so that just the rubber stem is there how does this bit come out ?

because i think if i wass to just cut it off from the top of the stemn it would look terrible and im not to fussed if my radio dosent work lool... i have my ipod to keep me company

red6n2 wrote:well apparently the whole antenna bit can come out so that just the rubber stem is there how does this bit come out ?

because i think if i wass to just cut it off from the top of the stemn it would look terrible and im not to fussed if my radio dosent work lool... i have my ipod to keep me company

The only way to make the standard one shorter is by cutting it

I used to have one of these

http://mazda3forums.com/enigma/antenna.html



But now have a mkv golf shark fin

nice, i prefer the shark fin myself, but dunno if i can be assed with getting the roof lining off etc... just to swap ariel...

red6n2 wrote:nice, i prefer the shark fin myself, but dunno if i can be assed with getting the roof lining off etc... just to swap ariel...

Only takes 10 minutes to fit it