Guide: How to fit an aerial blanking plug

[Simon0014]

Just a quick guide how to do fit a blanking plug. Its quite easy but I was asked if I could make one.

First off you need to remove the interior light from the centre panel like so:



And then unplug the light.

Once done you should then see the aerial base and nut like so: (please note i took the whole sunroof plastic out as my friend was also taking off his rooflining).



Undo the nut with a 8mm socket set and remove the aerial from the roof.

Clean up any marks on the paint from where the aerial has been previously with white spirit and t-cut if you wish.

Then push the base piece of the plug into the roof. It should look like this now:



Next put some sealant on to the top piece of the plug like so and then push onto the car:




It should now look like:



The final thing is to set up the aerial hoop inside the car so you still get reception.
Simply turn on the radio and play with the hoop until you find a place on the car where the reception is good and tape into place.




Then just plug the light back in and push back into place and job done

[Jamescl1992]

Nice guide mate, im thinking of doing this to mine but i really cant find where to get these parts to do it.. Where did you get yours from?

[LSOfreak]

dealers, part for an ax i think

[Simon0014]

Yeah thats right i've got 4 left as i bought loads from citroen recently to help out others on here as people have been struggling to get of them. Aparently they are discontinued. If you paypal me £4 I can send you one

[danpalmer90]

not bad! would it not look better just smoothing it over? so the ax will fit onto all saxo's??

[Simon0014]

Originally Posted by danpalmer90

not bad! would it not look better just smoothing it over? so the ax will fit onto all saxo's??

Yeah obviously but it also costs a lot more than a few quid hence why very few get it completely smoothed. Yeah the ax bung fits onto saxo's and 106's

[AL3X_]

If you do this is there a way for the aerial cable to be attached to one of those interior aerials?

[Simon0014]

Originally Posted by AL3X_

If you do this is there a way for the aerial cable to be attached to one of those interior aerials?

Just turn your radio on, then stick the radio O-ring with duck tape to the roof on the inside where it has best signal (may need to test a few spots) and its no different to having an aerial mate, still get good reception.

[Cdtgibbsy]

Is there a way to remove all the marks from where the aerial was sat?

[Simon0014]

Originally Posted by Cdtgibbsy

Is there a way to remove all the marks from where the aerial was sat?

Yeah white spirit, t cut and polish seems to work pretty good, also a clay bar may help.

[dunno]

think im gonna do this now to find the part....

edit; found this on the 106 owners club which gives the part numbers for all of the blanking plates...whether they are right or not god knows

http://www.106owners.co.uk/forums/sh...9-Aerial-blank

[Simon0014]

Originally Posted by dunno

think im gonna do this now to find the part....

edit; found this on the 106 owners club which gives the part numbers for all of the blanking plates...whether they are right or not god knows

http://www.106owners.co.uk/forums/sh...9-Aerial-blank

I think they are right, failing that you can just ask if they can get a blanking plug for citroen ax

[tmile09]

just pm'd u mate

[AL3X_]

Originally Posted by Simon0014

Just turn your radio on, then stick the radio O-ring with duck tape to the roof on the inside where it has best signal (may need to test a few spots) and its no different to having an aerial mate, still get good reception.

The only problem with that is, i listen to galaxy a lot(now capital FM) which usually has shit signal, on my old car i replaced the broken electric aerial with a maplins one, and it would barely pick up this station, so I replaced it with a genuine one.

[Simon0014]

Originally Posted by AL3X_

The only problem with that is, i listen to galaxy a lot(now capital FM) which usually has shit signal, on my old car i replaced the broken electric aerial with a maplins one, and it would barely pick up this station, so I replaced it with a genuine one.

Oh right i dont think i can even recieve that station down here. We used to have galaxy years ago when i was about 9 haha.

In all fairness I rarely listen to the radio so even if i had no reception it probably wouldn't bother me an awful lot.

[Jamescl1992]

I got mine yesterday and fitted it thanks mate.

I used to have an old headunit and had standard aerial on (worked fine)

But then I bought an expensive alpine headunit the reception was always shit with the aerial on, so i just unscrewed it and just left the mount on its own, and the reception on the alpine was actually better with no aerial screwed in, so thought i might aswel get this de aerial bung, and the receptions still great - Weird , alpine headunits must not like aerials lol!

[Paulc]

Originally Posted by Simon0014

Yeah thats right i've got 4 left as i bought loads from citroen recently to help out others on here as people have been struggling to get of them. Aparently they are discontinued. If you paypal me £4 I can send you one

PM'd

[JTheLegandary]

Tempted to get one of these.

[ward3]

mate you dont know how much this had helped me
thank you!!

[Davo106]

Thats not actually right... one bit goes ontop of the roof, the other goes on the underside.