Replacing the factory Arial - How?

[Russ Kellermann]

Hi guys, on my pickup i have a factory fitted whip arial on the left front panel (just in front of the windscreen next to the bonnet.) I need to replace mine as it broke of at the plastic base when a tree caught it.

Problem is, i cant see any way of getting in there to loosen the thing without taking the entire panel off? surely this cant be right?

Advice please?

Russ

[Grootseun]

Try removing the inner fender liner , sometime you get lucky

[Aries66]

Hi Russ
Yes i recently replaced mine. Just remove the plastic inner cover and you have access to the antenna.

[Russ Kellermann]

Ok kewl! Gonna try that.

[Russ Kellermann]

Didn't work.

Had to take the entire fkn pannel off the side which meant undoing headlights and all sorts of other stuff, absolutely pathetic design. Took hours and hours to change a bloody arial.

I cannot believe that in the modern world a company as established as Nissan would design a vehicle where one has to literally take the side of the car off to change a peripheral device.

[Peter Connan]

Russ, that kind of thing is only getting worse.

On the Landy Disco 3 and 4 I am told you need to remove the whole body in order te replace the timing belt (not sure if this is true for all engines or only the Diesels)!

[Grootseun]

Peter , thats true on the diesels , that muvh i know as we had to do that a clients workshop the other day

Russ , thats a pity on the older Nissans you jsut worked through the inner fender space
Now im even gladder that when my trolls electric antenna went i fittted the internal stick on version that sits behind the rear view mirror on the windscreen and it only cost me R50 and works sweet i must add

[ricster]

I got one of those stick on ones too.... but now my radio reception is almost non existent !!!..... Paid a lot more than R50 for mine too...... The dude says its cause my radio is old and he must put a frequency modulator in ....or something like that

[Grootseun]

Cedric , i run a oldish sony frontloader and honeslty have no reception issues we need to look at what your running , mine was R50 from Midas and plugs straight into the radio and has one power lead , and no problems yet , check your earth cable to your radio , ive found many radios with bad earth trying to earth through the areail and then no radio reception

[ChristoSlang]

I also replaced my original Nissan aerial with a R50 rubber "bee-sting" from Midas, and it works like a charm. I sommer bought two of them so that have a spare in case the first goes missing. It's short enough not to catch on branches, can unscrew when I really want it out of the way, and the reception is perfect. Nissan thought that R2500 for a new aerial was a fair price - I just don't understand their thinking at all

In my case it was sufficient to remove the wheel liner only. It was a tough job fastening the replacement properly, as space very limited in there. Some threatening language seemed to help with the process!