radio failure after fittien electric aerial

[joolz46]

Can anyone help me with this.
Following several vanadalised aerials I have just fitted an electric
aerial to my '94 Astra. It worked with the engine off but when I switched
the engine on I had no radio at all. It doesn't work when the enigine is
off now either. Any advice welcome!

[ANDY FAGAN]

Check fuses, it may have put too much overload on one of the fuses with the
extra draw from the aerial.

Andy

Post by joolz46
Can anyone help me with this.
Following several vanadalised aerials I have just fitted an electric
aerial to my '94 Astra. It worked with the engine off but when I switched
the engine on I had no radio at all. It doesn't work when the enigine is
off now either. Any advice welcome!

[In-Car Express]

Post by joolz46
Can anyone help me with this.
Following several vanadalised aerials I have just fitted an electric
aerial to my '94 Astra. It worked with the engine off but when I switched
the engine on I had no radio at all. It doesn't work when the enigine is
off now either. Any advice welcome!

The famous mistake with older Vauxhalls is to connect a ground lead
from whatever you're fitting to a black ignition switched live in the
belief it's a ground (brown on Vauxhalls of that age). If you do this,
the second you turn the ignition on it'll blow the ignition feed fuse.

Jon