The antenna does not retract.
You can twist it off though.
Or you can buy a shark fin from badnewsracing.net and replace the whip antenna.

This is stock on all models


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lol you're willing to ruin your paint in a car wash but worried about your antenna?

 

Yeah, I agree. Avoid the brush-type car washes AT ALL COSTS. They're mean to your paint.

High-pressure water? Sure.

 

I have no problems getting my free car washes at my dealers brush type wash bay. Paint and antenna have been coming out just fine fro the past year. I trust them because they run their fleet through it, so they keep it maintained.

 

You guys are funny keep up the humor I need all the laughs I can get these days , to much brow beating ,puffy shirts
dangling objects from out of this century for me to handle all at one sitting ....
OH were talking about my favorite pass time washing and waxing my IT , IT LOVES a good bath after all of this gosh darn snow and calcium chloride being splashed in IT's face for days on end . Some day IT will learn how to buff IT's self and I will catch that fish that has been eluding me ..........






The End ....BE Cool Stay Cozy Keep Cruzen

 

I'm not deleting this one. Instead, I have a question for you:

How many drinks did you have at the time of writing this post?

 

tecollins, i just got a 2012 ls and want to get a shark fin to replace the whip antenna, but i am having problems finding one matching my car colour: topaz metallic blue. any suggestions? ill pay to have it painted if i need to.

 

You can order here.
https://badnewsracing.3dcartstores.com/Chevrolet-Cruze-Shark-Fin-Antenna_p_22.html

You will need your paint code its in your glovebox iirc or call dealership with your vin.

I am supprised no one has done a paint code reference list.

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this should be it
GTS = WA-933L = Blue Topaz Metallic

Can anyone confirm?

 

This us were you find you color code

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It takes about 10 seconds to unscrew the antenna, and another 10 seconds to put it back on.

 

There's no need to screw with your antenna to run the car through a car wash.

 

You never answered my last question to your post. How many drinks did you have before posting on this forum? I ask that because at least half of your posts make absolutely no sense.

 

Here in Northern VA most car washes are brushless but I still unscrew the antenna anyway. I'm long overdue for a wash but we never seem to get 3 or 4 consecutive dry days this crappy winter. Hardly seems worth it otherwise.

 

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Were not meant for you

 

I like this guy, he sounds like my mother in law, half the stuff she says doesn't make sense, the other half doesn't matter.

 

The guy who referred to the 12 inch long stock antenna as a "whip" antenna needs to get out more. Find a guy driving a car who is an amateur radio operator - now that is a whip antenna. I did appreciate learning that the stock "stub" antenna can be unscrewed, in case I need to park in a bad area. I have not met the automatic car wash brush yet that can damage clear coat. After about 100 automatic car washes with brushes, I might need to buff out the clear coat, but that's several years down the road, but that's only if I buy it at the end of the lease..

 

You take your car through automatic car washes? Please post an up close picture of your paint under halogens or in the sun.

 

The old guy with the cane ? Or ....unscrew the darn antenna at the base .purchase a shark fin antenna .
......quid pro quo....where am I ? When all of your horses catch up to G 23 or above you will be able to call my cell and tell me what you have obtained on your quest of about as long as it took you to go out of your way to accomplish, for absolutely nothing....was the journey any thing that you expected, or are you just tired of the drama of your own lives to compete at such a level .I would define this for you but , it is your mission ,I took a confidencial oath?...

 

What does all of that mean? Is it some sort of secret code? Is it some sort of quote from the Free Masons?

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What is G twenty three?

 

lolWhen I got my cruze it came with the antenna in a bag in the glovebox, had to put it on myself, I highly doubt you need to take off your antenna....if you did it'd be a horrible design

 

Beleive it or not. The high pressure "touch less" , "Laser" car washes are worse for your car then the brush touch as there is nothing to wipe away the dirt. Instead the high pressure just pushes the dirt into your clear coat. Dont believe me? take a clay bar to your car after that laser wash and tell me how clean it is.

 

Well when the weather her in chi town breaks for more than a week ,IT will require a bath !
I USUALLY FILL A BUCKET WITH WET WATER AND SOME CAR SOAP PLACE THE SPONGE THE MICRO FIBER CLOTH THE TIRE BRUSH IN THE BUCKET THAT DOES NOT HAVE A HOLE IN IT .... SPRAY IT DOWN TO ALLOW THE SUDSY SOAP FILLED BUCKET WITH OUT A HOLE IN IT AND , THEN IT SAYS THANK YOU ...THE M DARNED BUGS COME OFF WITH SOME GOOD OLD FASHIONED ELBOW GREASE... AFTER CAREFULLY SCRUBBING FOR HOURS AND HOURS ...
IT WILL APPEAR TO BE CLEAN ,BUT I KNOW BETTER IT LOVES TO GET POLISHED ALSO . OH HERE COMES THAT DARNED BUFFER THAT IT HAD TO HAVE FOR THE DUTIFUL SHINE .. IT NEVER GOES THROUGH A NEW FANGLED CAR WASH .....

 

I LIKE TYPING IN ALL CAPS TOO. Wait, no I don't. That's annoying.


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5 STAR THREAD.

WOULD READ AGAIN

This thread is now about Horses:

 

I kinda feel bad for the OP who is actually living up to his title by Learning about his Cruze, and it went in so many directions away from that.

In other news, I really should stop by my dealer to get an antenna bag, just to have one. That way if I do go shark fin some day, I have a storage bag for the antenna mast.

 

In other news, I really should stop by my dealer to get an antenna bag, just to have one. That way if I do go shark fin some day, I have a storage bag for the antenna mast.

I think that you can buy one of those from AliExpress.Com at a good price and you should get the delivery within the year.

 

Just go thru a cold water car wash, it get's smaller by itself.