Help, I look like a remote control car

[Stevo]

DAMMIT :

Got up thismorning and the arial is stuck up. Must have not gone down lastnight. Tried using the button to make it go up and down, but its just making a terrible noise.

Is it screwed, or is there a way to fix it ?

I need to fix it soon, as i keep having urges to pick up a remote and drive it around my driveway.

10-4 Good buddy :

[Kenaz]

Mine is the same. Been like that since I got it :

[The MaDDeSTMaN]

I'd guess either the teeth have come out of alignment, or the little electric motor doesn't want to play ball anymore. Those would be my guesses.

[Hotwire]

My arial is the same. is the motor still driving it (you should be able to hear it). If so, it is just the nylon strap in the arial that needs replacing with a new telescopic bit, not the whole thing. I've just never got around to doing mine, to lazy :P

[Yagz]

Your car's also as slow as a remote control car, steve ;)

Hahaha, nah, umm, take it out, and see wtf's going on :P

yeah mine dont work properly either. i just push mine completly down. ive changed the switch on mine so i can control the up and down height, dont have that half up full up switch so mine doesnt try to go up every time i start the car.

[EFFalcon]

haha.
mine isnt working coz mines not wired up.
just sits there in the guard coz i removed the switch.
one day i'll put the switch back in :P

[Stevo]

rofl yagz... too true..

you bunch of slack pricks. Fix it! Ok now , How do i access the arial to have a look at it ? :S

[EFFalcon]

get in the wheel arch.
u have to remove the black plastic crap.
there should be some metal tabs that hold it (just bend them straight)
not sure if there is any screw/clips for that section.

but anyway, its just behind that

[Kryton]

while your there you may as well scrape out all the built up dirt from behind the guard as well......slows the rusting process down.

[EFFalcon]

my guess is that their car prolly doesn't have anything behind there.
damn good condition body work ;)

[Stevo]

well the up in the guards are washed when the car is, but not behind them

[jedaarr]

gd- luk.

[Dodgy Daz]

My antenna is alos broken, might fix, might just push the bugger down....

[neb]

haha all you broken antenna people mine works fine.. it doesnt have a switch.. whenever i listen to the radio it goes up.. if i'm listening to cd or anything other then radio it stays down

I had the same problem with a mates NC fairlane, the plastic strip with the teeth in one side that pushes the areal up & down was toothless, so the motor was just slipping. It's cheap to replace, & can be brought seperately. It's just a pain to get the areal out.

[Biggoggs]

Is the EA supposed to have an electric aerial? Mine just sortof stays up, not sure how to extend or retract it either...