Hoping someone can help me. I want to change the roof aerial on my Fabia as the standard one keeps catching the garage door. But when I try to unscrew it, it loosens enough to fold down but then just turns and turns. Is there a special way of removing these?

No mate should be unscrew and it's off. Had mine off the other day as I was testing out a replacement for mine. Which won't be fitted until I paint the roof.

Give it an almighty Tug when you have unscrewed it. It will come off

Has anyone got a link to a good one? And replacing them for a shorter one doesn't affect the radio signal does it?

Replacing with a stubby aerial will have some impact on signal but shouldn't be much. In areas with a decent transmission signal it will pick up fine but a stubby aerial may struggle in weak areas. I've used stubby ones in the past with little to no problems but not on the Fabia. I hate to promote Halfrauds but they do decent ones. Go for one that looks as close to OEM as possible is my only advice, the fancy coloured ones are never as good IMO.

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Has anyone got a link to a good one? And replacing them for a shorter one doesn't affect the radio signal does it?

Had a stubby 'bee sting' for my old Corsa D. Don't remember having any issues with signal. It was a cheap one drop ebay as the longer one used to rub on the rear spoiler.

As with my old Fabia VRS MK1, once unscrewed there is a safety feature to deter aerial robbers, but placing an anti-yank-out thread deterrent.

Some robber unscrewed my aerial, yanked the aerial out, knackered the threads, so I had to buy a replacement base and aerial, around £40.00 at the time.

All easily replaced by lowering the rear inner roof lining, detach the aerial cable and unbolt the base, and reversal to replace..

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Much is that can only see it in Ebay from Germany for £36 

I had the older, longer "Whip" aerial which did the same thing... Used to snag on garage door so I removed it and replaced it with one from an eBay seller who has tiny-winy ones for Citroens and Pugs, that seems ok but probably not as good as the genuine, later generation VW/Skoda one that is about half the length of the whip, thicker and straight, rather then thinner, twisty top. My little one looks very small though, even compared to the VW/Skoda "Stubby".

 

I do notice a bit of degradation of sound when the light are turned on... This may be the Nightbreaker bulbs or the mast or even a combo of the two and I keep the old mast in the boot, next to the warning triangle so if I am gonna be away from home and getting poorer reception, I can swap back. I am thinking of trying the genuine shorter one but just not got round to sourcing one. Not worth getting a fake, not worth the money from a main dealer!

try eBay, typing 7 inch 7" stubby car

 

That should show you a shortish version that I am sure fits Skoda's as well. Its similar to later version and at only £1.99 delivered... You do the maths!

 

The Citroen one I got was around £3-4 a few years ago but now they're around a tenner... Must have realised that other people purchased them for their cars so upped the asking!

try eBay, typing 7 inch 7" stubby car

 

That should show you a shortish version that I am sure fits Skoda's as well. Its similar to later version and at only £1.99 delivered... You do the maths!

 

The Citroen one I got was around £3-4 a few years ago but now they're around a tenner... Must have realised that other people purchased them for their cars so upped the asking!

 

Checked mine, it's a screw on one added a couple to my watchlist will purchase eventually 

I paid £11 for a Polo bee sting aerial for my Superb. I got it from eBay. I'll see if I can find one.

Here http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=181934018358&alt=web

Edited 29 April, 201610 yr by Nathanio