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Justin Rieve
Tinkerer
Victoria
TT

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Reg: 11-2006

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Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 02:18 pm, by:  Justin Rieve (Jerry) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have recently installed a new Clarion HU and i get really bad reception. What could be causing this.

I thought the aerial could be broken but i dont even know where the aerial is on a soarer?

Any ideas on bad reception?

Thanks
Andrew Stewart
TryHard
Queensland
Manual GT-T VVT-i Single Turbo

Posts: 118
Reg: 06-2007

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Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 03:43 pm, by:  Andrew Stewart (Daboom) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

you havent wired in the power antenna booster from the factory loom. even though there isn't a physical power antenna, there is a power booster as the antenna is in the rear window
Ryan Rankovic
Goo Roo
Victoria
Soarer TT GT-TL

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Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 05:54 pm, by:  Ryan Rankovic (Ryan1j) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

you also might be having troubles if you have a metallic tint on your rear window, as thats where the antenna is, as andrew said
Justin Rieve
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Victoria
TT

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 07:26 pm, by:  Justin Rieve (Jerry) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The booster antenna, is this the small wire everyone has spoken about in the previous questions...?

Can someone describe what this wire looks like and how to wire it up to an aftermarket HU

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Andrew Stewart
TryHard
Queensland
Manual GT-T VVT-i Single Turbo

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 09:12 pm, by:  Andrew Stewart (Daboom) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

on your head unit, in the manual it will be described as either power antenna signal wire, or remote turn on, or amp remote, or something of the similar. as for the soarer loom, i cannot be 100% certin as to what it is, but normally it is a blue wire. it may have a white stripe or something. but if you have hooked up your system right, assuming you have used the factory loom for your speakers, it should only be one of the few left. you should be able to do a search either on google or on the forum and search for audio loom pinout or something like that. i haven't changed the system in my soarer, but failing that, you may be able to go to repco, JB or your local audio dealer, and see if they carry a toyota loom. generally toyota looms are in 2 pieces. the main one (large one) contains all the necessary wires. e.g. power, accessoriees, earth, front speakers, power antenna, amplifier turn on and illumination. the second plug, normally has 4 wires and that is for the rear left and right speakers. have another look, otherwise if it isn't too hard, plug the original soarer radio back in, turn the car to on, but you don't need to start. and use a multimeter to probe each wires except for the speaker wires and switch between radio and either cd or tape. this way when you turn on the radio the power antenna will activate giving you the correct pin for the power antenna.

give this link a go

http://soarercentral.com/sc-forum/messages/282/21685.html


i hope i have made some sense to you. but post back and i may be able to further help you

Andrew
Brian Timms
Goo Roo
New South Wales
TT Soarer Goodness.

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Reg: 12-2006

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 09:30 pm, by:  Brian Timms (Turbo_brian) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Which antenna wire did you use???

The smaller of the wires needs a converter to make it a normal size, then you use this converted antenna plug in the head unit, otherwise AM will be fantastic, but FM will suck so bad you wont get low-level transmissions (such as the good old Drive-in).

B.
Brett Moloney
DieHard
Queensland
Supercharged UZZ31

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Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 04:18 pm, by:  Brett Moloney (Lxsv8) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

To get around all our window antenna problems has anyone ever tried an external antenna with amplifier such as BMW, Merc or Audi?
Ian Gordon
Newbie
Qld
Soarer 2.5 TT

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Reg: 04-2008

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Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 10:31 pm, by:  Ian Gordon (Ian9au) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I bought an internal antenna and stuck it above the rear view mirror. Works beautifully and not very obvious.

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