Hi All

         Mrs. Vanhire and myself are swapping cars next week as her long suffering Civic needs a few jobs doing - She is not happy to drive my car as the radio reception is really terrible. It makes no difference to me as I listen to MP3's as the radio has nothing but bad news and adverts anyway. 

 

Over the last few days I have been trying to get this sorted out. I fitted a radio booster as advised on this forum -  in fact 2 just to rule it out. This didn't work 

 

So I replaced the full antenna on the back as the old one didn't look great and also had an aftermarket mast which was cross threaded into place - This didn't work either 

 

The radio itself is a Pioneer MHV-160UI which is fine for me 

 

I am going to swap in another radio to test tonight to rule it in or out   

 

Have I missed sommit ? Is there anything else in the antenna circuit like a pinch point ? 

 

Any ideas lads no matter how far fetched you think it might be is on the table as Im completely baffled 

 

Thanks in Advance

 

 

 

Does it drop in and out? Mine is doing this, think it's the aerial base.

10 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Does it drop in and out? Mine is doing this, think it's the aerial base.

 

Not so much Ryan - If you seek out the stations it just seems to keep going without picking up any thing .. I manually tuned it for I copied the frequencies from Mrs. Vanhires car and the reception is really bad 

 

I just slotted in the radio from the classic car and the results were the same 

 

I surely didnt get a dodgey antenna ..? Its a genuine one from the dealer so Id be surprised if it was a duffer 

 

Im going to go tonight on one last throw and retrace all the steps - If it still plays up Im going to give it up and put in a windscreen aerial 

Electronic Antenna, 12v | MicksGarage

 

I fitted one of these in the old car and it works great and is very discreet but that is a cop out🤔

@VanhireBoys - I'd agree with @AnnoyingPentium about the aerial base; it's a separate component from both the mast and the in-car co-axial lead to the head, and also the bit that is most likely to suffer water ingress.

ive had the exact same issue bud ive tried 2 different stereos 2 of the boosters ive swopped out the enire rear aerial and base and just cannot get radio reception for some unknown reason would really like to find an answer to this also.

Any aftermarket radio is going to need an external way of injecting phantom power up the aerial feeder to power the roof amplifier, something like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184224387760?hash=item2ae4a112b0:g:JSYAAOSwP-5iOb8o 

thats what i used but still no signal just static.

1 hour ago, Stewartasb said:

thats what i used but still no signal just static.

Disconnect the aerial feeder at the aerial base and check you have 12v between the centre pin and the outer screening