Low life

Cliff R · Post by **Cliff R** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:29 pm

Last night someone decided it would be fun to bend the antenna on my 82 MY touring wagon right at the base which stuffs it totally. I have tried to staighten it but of course it crimped and will eventually break off.
The car has managed to get to 30 years old and no issues and now I have to replace something which should have outlasted the car because of someone who probably has the attention span of a small rodent and an IQ less than my shoe size. Sorry I realise others have had much worse happen to their cars by "relatives" of my culprit so I wont go on about it:mad::mad:

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:47 pm

Cliff I find that quite offensive to small rodents

I think that this is a much much lower life form at work here

Sorry for your loss mate it gets rather tiresome after a while - which incidently is the aim of these life forms unfortunately

NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:09 pm

Yeah mate that is a bugger!

I know it wont fix it but if you use some pliers to squeeze where it is crimped to try make it as round as possible, it may last a bit longer... Then maybe wrap some tin around it like you get under the lid on an unopened Milo tin, with a small clamp to hold it in place.

Cliff R · Post by **Cliff R** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:26 pm

Thanks for the kind words everyone.
Unfortunately, as they have bent the thing right at the base it is difficult to crimp back into some sort of round shape which is what I tried to do to get at least the bottom section of antenna back into the car which would have supported the rest of the it for a while. When I tried to squeeze it back round it cracked meaning, yes, it does go back in but not very far. I am hoping the Brumby antennas are the same so replacing it wont be an issue. It is just the sheer waste of my time and efforts and the way some of our fellow humans think (or their lack of it)

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:24 pm

WANKERS !!!

Wish you could find that person and shove that ariel fair up his clacker

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:05 pm

What a bugger, I just don't understand why people do that, are they bored or what?

I had to replace my antenna recently (broken for a while and not by rodent-people) and found you can't unplug the antenna wire from the antenna, it's one piece all the way back to the stereo

Ended up taking half the plastic trim out of the driver foot-well and the center console to get the radio out, as well as the bonnet pull-handle bracket. What a pain.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:08 pm

no, not the aerial, just a bit of conduit, insert barbed wire and remove conduit and shove that in its mouth to clench on as the hospital staff attempt to remove it

mud_king91 · Post by **mud_king91** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:44 pm

asshole however the missus car wasnt a pretty site wednesday morning after someone took to the quarter glass passenger and passenger door lock with a screwdriver then looks like they got bored with that and took to the drivers door with a crowbar must have been quite fun at our expense... maybe you should do what im considering and trying out what they did... on their car

Brumby Kid · Post by **Brumby Kid** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:47 pm

If only you kept chasing them daniel, bloody assholes.

mud_king91 · Post by **mud_king91** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:09 pm

eh didnt seem worth the gas at the end of the day they dint leave fingerprints so id have to prove it

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:22 pm

Fair dinkum !
A Brumby one should fit. I just fitted MY guards to my Brumby.

brockharro · Post by **brockharro** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:12 am

ive been through 2 arials in a year on my brumby then someone did the same on the liberty pretty over it