Re: Windshield with built in antenna

[Jeff Loh <asp125@concentric.net>]

At 08:26 PM 11/30/98 -0500, Daniel Hussey <GY3WSX@vm.sc.edu> wrote:
..
>    I don't know the exact path, but it looks like it comes from the
>lower passenger side, up by the rear view mirror, and down the center
>of the windshield.  The connection must run to one (or both) of these
>points.
>
>    However, I don't know if you knew this, but there are TWO antennas
>in that car.  One in the front windshield, and one in the rear.
>
>    Now, the question I have is how expensive are the Audi windshields
>with the built in antenna, as I need to replace mine soon???  Expensive,
>I am guessing.

There is a wire coming off the windshield at the lower passenger corner.
This terminates in spade connector which plugs into (at least for an 80Q) a
small amplifier module in the RH-side A-pillar. The rear antenna is the
same way.

As for cost, I had mine done by a windshield place for the cost of my
deductible. "Insurance will pay? With OEM? Cool, here's my $100!" 
When I asked how much they are outright, I was told somewhere in the $500+
range. 

-Jeff
'88 80q (Bilstein, Eibach, K&N)