Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 07:25:10 -0400 From: KeithG <noonenopsamspring.com> Subject: Re: Power Antenna update
I hear you and am making no judgments here. I usually get the volt meter out and check for voltages and grounds first. I have replaced a number of masts on different makes of cars and have yet to come to an OE motor which was bad. $0.02, YMMV, KeithG MeatballTurbo wrote: > In article <3E9B55EF.3030604nopsamspring.com>, noonenopsamspring.com > spouted forth into alt.autos.saab... > >>After all this, it still would've been easier and cheaper to replace the >>old motor and get a new mast. I still vote for that solution then ebay >>the other stuff. >> > > > I think the reason that the old motor finally stopped was the headunit > now. Although at the time, I didn't know that, I assumed after grinding > away for so long going no where it had finally burn't out. > > Which would you suspect if doing the replacement? An Antenna that was > stuck so the motor grinds and judders, or twenty year old wiring in the > car, or the the remote line of a 10 months old Headunit that gave no > other indication of being faulty, when the antenna fails to even try to > raise or lower?