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[damon80]

Hi Folks,

Long story short, my ex-plod saloon has no sign of any aerial for the radio.  Well, it didn't, until I got an electronic stick-on jobbie to tide me over for the time being (about 12 months ago...  )

The coverage ain't too great, so I'm after taking the rear parcel shelf out and seeing if there is any sign of the aerial amp, and then I'll take things from there.

Just had a look at the below guide for taking the shelf out:
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1152745304

Before I get stuck in with this, does anybody have any pointers?  Some bits of the guide seem a little bit vauge to me... 

How do you get the headrest holders out? 
How does the centre seatbelt cap come off?

Any pointers would be appreciated 

[RobG]

Hi Folks,

Long story short, my ex-plod saloon has no sign of any aerial for the radio.  Well, it didn't, until I got an electronic stick-on jobbie to tide me over for the time being (about 12 months ago...  )

The coverage ain't too great, so I'm after taking the rear parcel shelf out and seeing if there is any sign of the aerial amp, and then I'll take things from there.

Just had a look at the below guide for taking the shelf out:
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1152745304

Before I get stuck in with this, does anybody have any pointers?  Some bits of the guide seem a little bit vauge to me... 

How do you get the headrest holders out? 
How does the centre seatbelt cap come off?

Any pointers would be appreciated 

Headrest holders-----seats down, hand up behind holder, press in tangs and pull out.
Seat belt cover, prise out carefully, only clipped in.
Aerial cable should run underneath driver`s side sill trim.
Oh, I`ve got an amp if needed and complete aerial cable from console to rear if needed

[damon80]

Thanks for that Rob! 

And thanks for the offer of the amp and cable - appreciate it 

Something else I'll be cracking on with tomorrow!  Not got a clue what to expect under the parcel shelf though, because I don't know if our boys in blue just cut the aerial cable off somewhere, or just specify the cars without the amp full-stop.

So as soon as I find out what's there (or what isn't!  ) - I'll drop you a line Rob, along with the stuff about the back of the dash if that's ok? 

If there is no amp present, is there a wire/plug from the heated rear window element that needs to plug into the amp?  Whereabouts does the wire run from - straight from the bottom of the rear window to the parcel shelf area?

[RobG]

Should be an aerial amp there as it feeds the heated rear screen. Two connectors, one grey feeding either side of the element, one black supplying the amp, plus you may have  the aerial lead

[ferrari jason]

I had the same prob with OAB as you might know the radio was hit or miss .I found that it had a telescopic aerial shoved up under the dash  . So decided to investigate the amp as i was changing the shelf anyway to put a rear blind in like rob say`s the amp was there but i changed it incase it was fubbared but still no joy next i checked the aerial wire and found it had been cut behind the fuse box did a temporary repair with tape and its still like that to this day i just listen to cd`s more now  send me a p.m if you need any help i`ll gladly assist

[Andy B]

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Any pointers would be appreciated 

I had to errr? persuade my parcel shelf to come out with a bit of brute force. The shelf had been glued in with a little stray glue from the rear screen  :-?     

[damon80]

I had the same prob with OAB as you might know the radio was hit or miss .I found that it had a telescopic aerial shoved up under the dash  . So decided to investigate the amp as i was changing the shelf anyway to put a rear blind in like rob say`s the amp was there but i changed it incase it was fubbared but still no joy next i checked the aerial wire and found it had been cut behind the fuse box did a temporary repair with tape and its still like that to this day i just listen to cd`s more now  send me a p.m if you need any help i`ll gladly assist

Hiya J - yep, the reception was hit n miss with OAB, didn't think anything of it really (and no, the aerial mast shoved up the back of the dash was nothing to do with me!!  )  OAB came with the CD player already installed, but my current one didn't. 

It was only when I couldn't find the aerial wire anywhere that I ended up getting this window-mounted Blaupunkt jobbie.  I'm doing a heck of a lot more miles these days than I did when I had OAB, so need the radio to keep me sane.  This Blaupunkt effort just isn't up to the job - I could be sat right on top of a radio transmitter and it'd still be cr@p reception!! 

Is it easy enough to get to the back of the fuse box?  I think I'll try that route first before I start taking the parcel shelf off.

[damon80]

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Any pointers would be appreciated 

I had to errr? persuade my parcel shelf to come out with a bit of brute force. The shelf had been glued in with a little stray glue from the rear screen  :-?     

Now that sounds like it was fun!! 

[Andy B]

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Now that sounds like it was fun!! 

I removed more & more trim from around the rear window before I 'persuaded' it to come out. Even phoned an ex Vaux tech to check I hadn't missed removing something         

[damon80]

If that would've been me, I would have taken a blow-torch to it!! 

[ferrari jason]

PM sent mate

[damon80]

And replied bud