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Originally Posted by cone275
Yeah, it sounds like you've got the gist of it; I would do the same as well.
I think it would be a good idea to use shrink tube after the repair as well. Even electrical tape would be fine, as it doesn't need to be a weatherproof repair. Better than leaving it exposed, you might get interference if the antenna ground touches the body ground (JUST IN CASE)
No problem  Let me know how it goes  |
Hey again!
So today I received the adapter (it was stuck in customs for a long time even though I paid for pre-tax... go figure). Rushed into my car aaaaaaaand:
It's ugly, I could barely grab the ground from the car side of the cable because it's braided, so I've pushed the other side more into the butt connector so they would reach each other directly.
Barely had any space to work, the cable on the car side is too short! Being a newbie I was scared to need to strip it more than once and fail... I did fail once and had to remove a butt connector, but managed to do it.
In the end, it's ugly as hell, I couldn't find a big enough shrinkable tube (out of stock) so I just bought some 3M electrical tape as people say it's the best.
Got good results, a lot of stations and clear sound! It doesn't sound that good on the video, of course, but they are and I can tune many stations just using the scan function, which wasn't working at all before.
And that's with the OEM radio, which I normally don't even use since I have a Joying head unit, which I had to send to china due to a malfunction on the screen.
The signal on that unit is better, there's a 12V feed for the antenna connector. Even with this broken ground cable on the car side, I could still listen to radio with it, when I put back the OEM it simply didn't work at all, no sound.
Another video that I used to know what to do was this one:
Thanks again
