Antenna Replacement

**98BlackMambaWS6** · 12-26-2011, 08:31 PM

Hey I bought my Trans Am this past April and the first thing I noticed was the antenna quality in this car was terrible. It goes up, but I have to push it down manually everytime I shut the car off. I doubt that would have any affect on the quality of the reception I get, but regardless its terrible. Does anyone have an replacement recommendations, obviously I could do a factory replacement, but i would like to do an internal antenna if they work prretty good and take the antenna off the car permanently....Any thoughts?

**az gt eater** · 12-27-2011, 02:01 PM

That works fine, you just have to fill the hole left from the antenna, or leave the factory one in in the down position.

**scott5** · 12-27-2011, 03:21 PM

you can take it out and they make plugs that you can paint the color of your car and just put a plug on it. I just took mine out and left the hole there, but its a race car so it wont see rain heck it will barely see the road.

**wileyCoyote** · 12-28-2011, 06:14 PM

it's easy to remove... if you think you might want to try to fix it, remove it and clean the telescopting mast w/ degreaser really good... it could be some corrosion and gunk that is preventing the operation... i did this to mine and it seemed to fix it, and i lubed w/ a silicone lube called jigaloo.

**98BlackMambaWS6** · 12-31-2011, 01:29 PM

Yeah honestly my biggest gripe is the reception the car gets, its the worst I have experienced in a car, so I dont think its worth trying to tune-up the existing antenna. Does anyone have any suggestions on replacement antennas that have good sound quality?

**Civic1** · 01-19-2012, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by 98BlackMambaWS6

Yeah honestly my biggest gripe is the reception the car gets, its the worst I have experienced in a car, so I dont think its worth trying to tune-up the existing antenna. Does anyone have any suggestions on replacement antennas that have good sound quality?

Get a BitViper antenna. It's a small 6" rubber antenna and it gives me the same reception as my stocker. I normally get Great reception with my Z28 maybe you have a Bad connection somewhere?

**98BlackMambaWS6** · 01-19-2012, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by Civic1

Get a BitViper antenna. It's a small 6" rubber antenna and it gives me the same reception as my stocker. I normally get Great reception with my Z28 maybe you have a Bad connection somewhere?

The BitViper looks awesome, but my car has the automatic antenna, I'm going to have to take mine apart and see if I can retrofit it to work with a BitViper otherwise I'll need to buy a factory one I guess.