Given Up

[MNP]

Finally given up trying to get my electric aerial to work. The original was frequently reluctant to retract so I took it out and tried all sorts of solutions but the plastic 'tail' had either been cut short in the past or broken off. On Monday I fitted a replacement from the auction site....it seemed to work albeit stiffly.

Not long after I gave feedback it too started to stick. In and out numerous times until this morning it jammed completely, broke the plastic tail trying to get it out. I have now done the same as I did with my broken Land Cruiser aerial, sawn the end off a telescopic radio aerial and fitted it in the hole.

Moral? One gets what one pays for.....

Mark.

[Tulpen]

I've posted this before.......The aerial insert is exactly the same as in a Toyota Camry (circa 2000). I took my 400 through a car wash - twice - and had to replace the insert. At the time, 10 years ago, Lexus wanted over 350 pounds for a complete new aerial. My local Lexus garage in Holland put a Camry insert in for 80 pounds.