surf aerial goes up when you use cd and radio

[matthew coventry]

surf aerial goes up when you use cd and radio i have fitted a jvc head unit with an iso adapter on my old radio aerial only went up when you had radio on do i have disconnect a wire or is this just an after market radio thing any help appreciated

[Silversurfer]

surf aerial goes up when you use cd and radio i have fitted a jvc head unit with an iso adapter on my old radio aerial only went up when you had radio on do i have disconnect a wire or is this just an after market radio thing any help appreciated

I had a Japanese market radio/cassette/cd in my Surf when I bought it. I have just replaced it with a single din cd/radio and on both the arial went up/down when switching the power on/off. Didn't matter whether it was switched to radio or cd.

[dave.j.robbo]

This is completely down to the stereo. Nothing wrong with your Surf!!!

[jmc]

All the ISO adaptors over here assume that your stereo doesn't have an amp remote lead, so they connect the surf's two remote leads (elec. aerial and rear speaker amp) to the same pin on the stereo (elec. aerial) because the rear speakers use built in amps that need turning on.

Have a look here: http://www.installdr.com/Harnesses/Toyota-Wiring.pdf

It's pins H and I on the ISO adaptor you need to look at. I just un-clipped that pin from the adaptor housing and connected one of the wires to the amp remote lead on my Sony head unit. Once you know which is which, you just need to fit a bullet connector to the amp one and put the aerial one back in the ISO connector.

The aerial now stays down unless I turn on the traffic announcement receiption or the auto-frequency function on my head unit. Once it's up though, it stays up even switching back to CD, but a quick off/on sends it back down. Not perfect, but my aerial isn't getting bent horizontal on the motorway for no reason any more!

Good luck.

[DaveD]

My ariel goes half up and down after I decided to switch on the radio while going through the car wash........duh!

[codlord]

They will normally stay up all the time if you have an RDS stereo fitted - i.e. even when you are listening to CD the radio can be changing frequency in the background so that when you change to radio it is always tuned in and ready.

If it was down during CD play then when you change to radio it could take several seconds to tune-in, during which time you may have to listen to static.

I suspect your original stereo did not have an RDS auto-tune function.

[dirtydog]

spot on - especially if you have traffic info turned on, the radio will constantly seek.

[jmc]

The problem I found was that if you turn off TA and AF to get the aerial down when playing a cd, the amp for the rear speakers switches off unless you wire the remote lead manually.

[ChasesDragons]

This is a problem worth solving on a 4x4. If you go off-road, it's well worth having the choice of keeping the aerial retracted, even though you want to listen to some music.

I am going to go down to a local leccies and have a push button installed which will do the job.

[codlord]

This is a problem worth solving on a 4x4. If you go off-road, it's well worth having the choice of keeping the aerial retracted, even though you want to listen to some music.

My advice is, if you are off road you don't want to be listening to music - you should be listening to the engine/drivetrain for problems - it would be quite easy to hit something/get a log jammed somewhere etc. not notice and do a lot of damage if you are not careful.

[dirtydog]

My advice is, if you are off road you don't want to be listening to music - you should be listening to the engine/drivetrain for problems - it would be quite easy to hit something/get a log jammed somewhere etc. not notice and do a lot of damage if you are not careful.

plus if your like me the cd's will jump / discs get stuck in the changer magazine if you have one.
I prefer to listen to the car and the laughter at other people getting stuck!

[ChasesDragons]

mmmm...naaah, I prefer to listen to some music.

[da SLUG man]

blue is the remote lead, orange is the aerial... stick a switch on whichever you have the aerial connected to and then you can put it up or down without turning off the amps.

[kazam401]

This is a problem worth solving on a 4x4. If you go off-road, it's well worth having the choice of keeping the aerial retracted, even though you want to listen to some music.

I am going to go down to a local leccies and have a push button installed which will do the job.

Already done that one.....push button switch £1.05 maplins. Works a treat