Frozen antenna: '95 900SE

Funny you should mention this. I just started leaving my 900 outside instead of in the garage and have had this problem almost constantly. When it's warm, the antenna works, so I wipe it off, spray on some WD-40 to displace water, cycle it up and down a few times, wipe it off again, lubricate it with silicone oil, etc. This seems to help but it froze again when I was in northern NH last week in below-zero temperatures -- though would operate normally after driving for half an hour or so with the heat on. If anybody has a better fix, pls share it!

Mike Yankee

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Clean the antenna when it´s fully out with some fuel or just old oil. If you´re using oil that is already enough. More consistent is a thin layer of bearing grease. Afterwards insert the antenna and remove the surplus of grease.Then you´re fine for about half a year. I had this problem quite often with my "old" 900´s (´95, ´96), especially when being carelessly in maintaining.

Good luck

Dieter

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I suspected that some grease might help, but wasn't sure; didn't want to gunk up anything.

I do have some bearing grease hanging around so I'll give that a try...

Thanks!

So - with a fixed whip you can never go through a car wash???

Mine never worked since I bought the car a few months ago.. For some reason every FM station I care about here pulls in the same with the antenna up or down so I put it down. I'm doing suburbian driving but other cars couldn't do that???

AM is > These power antenna are pigs in colder climates, especially with freezing

Negative ! Cars with whips went through car washes for 20 plusyears before power antennas. Its not a problem. When I need a car wash, I use a "brushless" type.

I'm guessing that your antenna is disconnected :-)

To thick. Get something thinner.

FWIW, all cars with power antennas have these issues when they get wet, then cold.

Naaa... I was saying that the FM signals and the ability of the radio are good enough so that I don't need the antenna... this is a good thing that I'm happy about - so don't try to talk me out of it.

Someday I'll want an AM fix and I'll have to put it up. Even unlikelier would be that I might want to see what the weather radio says.

-meld

Bob wrote:

I used to ignore the weather radio too but the NWS recently made some improvements in that service. It's actually useful now, as long as you don't mind waiting for it to roll around to the forecast for your specific area.

Since the changes that NOAA made, I find myself using the WB all the time now. No waiting for the radio to tease you with the weather anymore.

An interesting thing I've noticed, is that if the WB is static and even when it's not, if you turn the WB off then on again you'll pick up a different broadcast. That way you can sometimes get a different feed if you don't feel like wading through the marine forecasts... (pun intended)

Leigh