Hello, I ask here too because of similarities between Tipo and Tempra, which should really be the same car for the matter I am writing.

I have to replace the antenna on my Tempra because it broke. These days the weather is quite rainy so I can't remove it, but I would like to know if the nut for bolting the antenna to the roof is soldered to the roof itself, on the inner side, so only a bolt is needed and for installing one operates on the utside of the car, or the nut is a "free" part and one has to remove the roof trim inside the car for the job of installing the antenna.

Also, my antenna wasn't a FIAT product, but I see on ePer that there is a specific one: do you know if it is good quality? Sure it should work better than a broken one, but who knows

Thank you!

the haynes manual says you remove the courtesy lamp roof panel. disconnect the aerial lead. then unscrew the aerial securing nut. and withdraw the aerial from outside. hope that helps.

Thank you, didn't think the Haynes would report info about that job, will have a look!

As I wrote in Tempra section, it isn't the easiest thing to do: or Tipo is different from Tempra in this aspect, or the writer of Haynes manual didn't take too much care of that job, because the antenna zone isn't comfortably accessible at all by just removing the courtesy lamp

unless you have to remove the headlining, but that seems a little excessive hmmm.

Besbie said:

unless you have to remove the headlining, but that seems a little excessive hmmm.

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I had to do so, because for some oxidation I wan't able to unscrew the old antenna base so I had to remove the antenna support and install a new one. What an hard job to do! Fortunately now I have a new antenna and seems I didn't damage anything