E30 Zone

Was thinking earlier...have an electric ariel on my is, and everytime i turn the stereo on, it comes up ...so it generaly is up and down every time i start the car/turn it off

but i dont listen to the radio often, so was pondering how easy/best way, to put a switch somewhere, ideally hidden but within easy reach, to just turn the switch on when i want to listen to the radio, to just be able to keep the ariel down and save always driving around with it up, thus also keeping it better conditon/shiney

any advice on ideas what to do exactly

I unplugged mine as it was always nearly getting bent in car wash

My one just automatically goes up when I change from cd to radio and back down when I change back to the CD!!

what headunit do you have tho

Sony one-nohin fancy.

swin wrote:My one just automatically goes up when I change from cd to radio and back down when I change back to the CD!!

wonder hows thats set up to do that ? would it be the wiring ?

my head unit is a decent pioneer bluettoth one

Some have a wire for amp trigger and aerial trigger im guessing his has both

i used a second rear demsiter switch fitted in a spare slot above the heater contorls and wired the signal wire from the head unit through the switch and then i could control my pesky arial, tjhis was very useful in my cab as the thing is very noisy!!

If you expose the wiring behind/above the glovebox, you should find a parallel twin cable going down behind the front of the speaker panel, consisting of one red wire and one white wire. The white wire is the control wire for the aerial. Apply 12 volts to it, and the aerial goes up. Remove the 12 volts and it comes down.