Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

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

Try removing the inner fender liner , sometime you get lucky

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

Ok kewl! Gonna try that.

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.

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)!

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

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

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

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!