austinado16

The antenna on the Avant was cracked around the rubber base of the arial so I unscrewed it, and ordered a new one from the local German parts place. The new one arrived, but has a 5mm stud instead of the 6mm stud that mine has. Also, mine is stamped up on the end that it's for 800 some mhz, so it's rated for cell phone?

Do I have an original antenna, or has some one replaced the base and the arial?

GPR has a complete amplified Hirschman for $57, so I can install that base and whip, and hopefully it will mate up to the car's coax and amplifier.

Evol

If yours works for a 97 GTi, (which it should), i need one.

Audi Logic

I have some

Fuzzbeaner

It doesn't work well, but I've never used the radio function of my car, or in my house. That said, I think it looks really nice, and it was cheap.

Good luck,
-Jeff

austinado16

YGM

Evol

You talking to me Willis?

DaveInSaltLake

I believe it was you that sent me one about a year ago for a Jetta project....it was a really nice fit.

Did you pick up a case of them somewhere?

austinado16

Couldn't find an aerial with a 6mm stud to match my base. Took down my rear interior light to discover it's not a powered antenna. All there is going to the base is a 6" long coax pigtail. The other end of the pigtail goes into some sort of coax splitter box in the roof near the base.

The Dealer was no help. ETKA doesn't show photos or list the right antenna.

We finally looked up the base for a same year Passat Wagon and I bought that for $40. Then I bought a replacement aerial from GPR for $16.

Good grief!

Audi Logic

yes evol I was talking to you..
dave! no I don't have a case of them..
I just have a collection from all my VW's
I did not know that they have different threads though so I'm not sure if they would work on the audi

Audi Logic

some old VW's had power going to the antenna from the center wire on the antenna cable,while others had a seperate power wire...
I read this on fuba's website many years back when I was searching for replacements