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Does anyone have some suggestions on how to route the antenna wire into the
car. I tried to snake the wire down with the old antenna wire, but it came
apart. Now I have to get the new wire down and into the car and i have not
been having much luck. Any suggestions on where i go from here?
Its a 99 civic hatch.
--chris

"Mackie1230" <mackie1230@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone have some suggestions on how to route the antenna wire into
the
> car. I tried to snake the wire down with the old antenna wire, but it
came
> apart. Now I have to get the new wire down and into the car and i have
not
> been having much luck. Any suggestions on where i go from here?

try using a piece of coathanger wire, and fish it thru top to bottom. when
it comes out the bottom, near the fuse box, reattach the antenna lead to the
coathangar sticking out the hole up top.

mackie1230@aol.com (Mackie1230) decided to join the conversation on 01
Dec 2003 with message news:20031201162915.29045.00001242@mb-m12.aol.com:

> Does anyone have some suggestions on how to route the antenna wire
> into the car. I tried to snake the wire down with the old antenna
> wire, but it came apart. Now I have to get the new wire down and into
> the car and i have not been having much luck. Any suggestions on
> where i go from here? Its a 99 civic hatch.
> --chris

had to do this in my 91 civic... eventually what worked for me was taping
the end of the antenna wire to a wire hanger.. and shoving the whole
thing down the pillar.. after reaching the end of the hanger, i just kept
feeding the antenna wire down. once the plug stuck out the other end, i
grabbed everything and yanked it through..

a 2 hour job, that woulda taken 5 minutes if i would've tied a string
around the antenna wire before yanking it through.

good luck.

--
-Chris

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mackie1230@aol.com (Mackie1230) wrote:

>Does anyone have some suggestions on how to route the antenna wire into the
>car. I tried to snake the wire down with the old antenna wire, but it came
>apart. Now I have to get the new wire down and into the car and i have not
>been having much luck. Any suggestions on where i go from here?
>Its a 99 civic hatch.
>--chris

Tie a string on the old antenna plug. Unscrew antenna mount and pull
antenna cable with attached string through the channel in the wall and
up onto the roof. Remove old antenna and cable and tie string onto
new plug on new antenna. Pull other end of string and cable will
snake through the channel. Put screws back in the antenna mount.
You're done !