Power antenna fixed!

Hi,

I have had problems with my power antenna since I bought my '99 Saab 9-3 just before Christmas, and couple of weeks ago I asked for help in this newsgroup. I got bunch of good advices from many of you, which greatly helped me to diagnose the system.

The problem I had, was totally dead power antenna. First, it was stuck of dirt, and I did clean and oil it. That did not help. I ruled out mechanical problems, and found that antenna motor did not attempt to do anything. Saab dealer's solution would have been whole antenna assembly costing some

250-300USD. I took whole assembly and even electrical motor in it in pieces and after all, the only thing broken was a thermal cut-off fuse inside the electrical motor, which costed me 45 cents.

I believe dirt in antenna had got antenna stuck, and thermal cut-off fuse had to break the current always when radio was switched on and everytime it was shut off. Of course, this was not a matter of concern for previous owner and finally this poor little thermal cut-off fuse got tired of trying, and decide to give up.

So, If you have dead power antenna motor, check the fuse inside it!

BR:Z

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Zon
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---8 I believe dirt in antenna had got antenna stuck, and thermal cut-off fuse

Thanks for the follow-up Zon (I was one of the people replying to the original post, convinced that you had a purely mechanical problem so I was pretty wrong there). Glad that you got it fixed. And now I know what to look for if the antenna on our car fails again, due to reasons other than mechanical ;-) /Robert

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Robert Brown

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