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 bugbum
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 posted on July 15th, 2003 at 10:47 AM |
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aerials?
My beetle never had a radio in it so it never had an aerial but i bought a new cd player for it so now i have to put one in. I don't really want
to drill a hole in the body for one. Will one of those aerials that you stick on work?? |
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| posted on July 15th, 2003 at 10:59 AM |
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What year model do you have?
My '73 already had the hole in the panel (front left) with a rubber bung. I put the arial there.
Otherwise in the Kombi I hung the arial across the front under the dash, works OK if I stay near the city.
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| posted on July 15th, 2003 at 11:46 AM |
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Why do ya need an arieal for a Cd player,tee hee
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| posted on July 15th, 2003 at 08:53 PM |
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I have a stick on in the EH and it works really well. A lot of the modified ones in our club have the same. They are powered and amplified, so that is
part of their success.
The only thing is they would be too long to fit across the Beetle windscreen and I don't know if cutting it will affect the signal.
It is a Bosch brand I got from Gary's Car Radio
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| posted on July 16th, 2003 at 01:58 AM |
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I didn't want to drill new holes in my Kombi either, all pretty well original.
I got around it by removing one of the bumper bolts and making up a simple angle bracket and using an aerial that usually mounts on a horizontal
surface. Brought the cable up through the handbrake hole in the floor to avoid another hole. Works great and cheaper than the side mounted Kombi or
Beetle style aerials. You might be able to do something like this with a bracket mounted at the front running board bolt, make sure the door is clear
of bracket and aerial when you open it.
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Drill a Hole in the body.... do it properly..
[size=4]Come on, a hole here and there doesn't hurt anything.... at least its NOT a rust hole.... Early beetles usually have the antenna mounted
on the front side 1/4 panel just in front of the door hinges. the later ones have a plug , in a hole in front of the LH Side of the windscreen... or
You can always put one just back from the windscreen in the centre of the roof... If You shorten an antenna, there should be an adjustment under
or behind the radio to trim or tune the antenna in to the station's frequency....
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68AutoBug
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| posted on July 16th, 2003 at 02:13 AM |
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Drill a Hole in the body.... do it properly..
[size=4]Come on, a hole here and there doesn't hurt anything.... at least its NOT a rust hole.... Early beetles usually have the antenna mounted
on the front side 1/4 panel just in front of the door hinges. the later ones have a plug , in a hole in front of the LH Side of the windscreen... or
You can always put one just back from the windscreen in the centre of the roof... If You shorten an antenna, there should be an adjustment under
or behind the radio to trim or tune the antenna in to the station's frequency....
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| posted on July 16th, 2003 at 02:21 AM |
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OLD ANTENNA IDEA....
[size=4]Back in the 1970s... Mitsubishi Galants (sold as a Chrysler Galant) used the complete boot lid as a Radio antenna... the boot lid was
insulated by rubber washers and plastic bushings. and it worked great..... I wonder why it isn't still used... I suppose it was NO good in
luxury cars that when the radio is turned on the antenna automatically raises.... so when the Radio was turned on the Boot Lid would Open...... but
it wouldn't close when the radio was turned off..... I suppose the front bumper on a beetle would be the easiest to insulate from the rest of the
car..... Interesting I must say....[/size]:bounce:bounce:bounce:bounce:bounce:bounce:bounce
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| posted on July 16th, 2003 at 06:39 AM |
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My friend has one on his splitty under the front bumper, works well, although the stick on ones sound good never seen one but if it works OK that may
be the way to go if yoiu dont want to drill holes
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| posted on July 16th, 2003 at 08:20 PM |
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Dont drill any holes!
Cut the antenna coax about 3 inches from your head unit.
Strip the coax back to the centre conductor for almost the whole length.
Whaala!
I get MMM Melbourne past Colac.
No Holes:thumb
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| posted on July 16th, 2003 at 11:48 PM |
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A nice period antenna looks a treat.
It's hard digging holes in it, but you can always fill 'em if you get the guilts that bad.
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| posted on July 17th, 2003 at 06:10 AM |
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Stick-on=static.
My K/G has one & the static is awful. Yes I have a filter. I don't like putting on the bumper.
Has anyone tried putting one along the inside edge of the bumper? What works, the length of the antenna or does it have to point up in the air?
Aaaah crap! Just saw your post Robo! Can you find out what your friend used as an aerial behind his bumper?
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 posted on July 17th, 2003 at 12:44 PM |
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@ ariels
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I have a 61 beetle which when I bought it,
had a old yukky side ariel.
So I bought a new one, after to & fro-ing
back to the shop finally got an old steel one, in fitting with the car settled on old style steel one.
Yes I had to cut hole bit bigger for it.
But does like better.
Now after years it is rusting (salty air here) so may have to search for replacement soon.
I too have nice stereo system in Bug...
& that ariel works great.
Judy (o\|/o)
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| posted on July 17th, 2003 at 12:49 PM |
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heres an idea we didnt want to drill holes either go to a good car audio shop and ask for an anti distort thing that plugs into your stereo and then
plugs in the aerial cord but the good thing about this is you dont have to have an aerial you can just use the anit distort thing it works great
cheers mattie
stuipid beetle breaks everytime i drive it.....
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| posted on July 17th, 2003 at 12:53 PM |
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this topic was covered previously, last year i think.
One of the better suggestions was to mount an electric aerial in the grille above the engine hood.
when it is down you don't see it, whemn it is raised in comes out between the slats. |
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| posted on July 17th, 2003 at 06:38 PM |
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the thing i was talking about is a suppressor it works excellent
cheers mattie
stuipid beetle breaks everytime i drive it.....
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