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I'm not sure if this is in the right section or not, but my question is specifically about Cefiros, so here it is. I'm trying to fix the terribly badly installed piece of cr@p Kenwood CD player in my Cefiro with a much better Sony unit....

The loom has been chopped around, but I've found wiring diagrams that will help me place everything together correctly. Installing the new unit isn't the hassle - but the electric arial doesn't work, and actually the arial cable is somewhere in the car, but I can't find the end that should plug into the actual arial in the boot of the car.

I found the power feed to the arial broken halfway through the car, which explains having o power to the electric arial, but the missing arial cable means no radio signal.

I currently have all of the seats and the carpet out of the car but I still can't find the arial cable. I don't want to yank the center console end of the cable in case it breaks or if it breaks other cables as I pull it - so my question is does anyone know how the arial cable is usually fed through a Cefiro?

Any helpful hints would be most welcome. I need to get the car back together asap, because I'm booked into the bodyshop on monday to repair a recent hit-and run, and fit a new bodykit.

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not sure how much you want your arial to be up, but I know that mine doesnt go up and I still get perfect reception. Obviously the range on it is going to be reduced but im happy that mine doesnt go up :)

Just some food for though....

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not sure how much you want your arial to be up, but I know that mine doesnt go up and I still get perfect reception. Obviously the range on it is going to be reduced but im happy that mine doesnt go up :)

Just some food for though....

thanks for the response. I'm not sure how often the arial would be up asI'm not really a "radio" kind of person... [i have a 10 disc multichanger and the headunit has a single mp3/vcd/cd player]...but I figured I'd fix the arial power while everything is out of the car.

The power issue isn't the problem - I can fix that this arvo, but I still can't find the arial signal cable. I'm not sure if it is fed through the roof-lining of the car since the part of the cable that I have found traces into the top left of the dshboard.

I don't want to take the dashboard and headlining apart today so I'm tempted to just cut my losses and buy a new arial cable and feed it underneath the carpet with the speaker cables?

so does anyone know how the arial should be fed through the car [from the factory] - in the roof-lining or under the carpets?

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dunno how much help this is, but have you tried making sure it is actually still in the car by checking behind the spare wheel area where the arial actually is and following the ariel cable from there. Its the big fat black one generally. I checked out all my ariel wires awhile ago now cos mine wasn't going up or down (btw they are f**king big arial, looks like a RC car when its all up), just can't recall exactly where it ran, pretty sure it came out under the rear seat and either down the side or middle of the car...

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dunno how much help this is, but have you tried making sure it is actually still in the car by checking behind the spare wheel area where the arial actually is and following the ariel cable from there. Its the big fat black one generally. I checked out all my ariel wires awhile ago now cos mine wasn't going up or down (btw they are f**king big arial, looks like a RC car when its all up), just can't recall exactly where it ran, pretty sure it came out under the rear seat and either down the side or middle of the car...

Again, thsnks for the response... I have tried looking there already. The arial has a signal cable but it is only the jack attached to the arial unit, but it isn't plugged into a length of cable that would run the length of the car to the center console at the front of the car. I have located the arial cable at the front of the car, but so far I'm unable to trace it to the back of the car.

As I already posted, I have the carpets out, and I wouldn't be able to miss it if it were running through the floor area of the car..... I think its highly unlikely that it would run through the roof lining, so I am thinking it has either been cut at the front end of the cable [near the console], or it is wound up and lodged behing the dashboard. Considering some of the other wiring in the car, I suspect it's been cut.

Well, I'll keep looking - but thanks for the responses so far.

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Ok guys - problem solved!

I found it eventually... the arial cable fed from the front of the car to the rear through the roof lining!!!

Just as Konnect said, the signal reception is fine even with the arial down....

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