I picked up a matching hatch for my car, mine is junk. There's a different kind of gray box that came in the new one. Mine was black and located in a different part of the hatch.

Ill take some pics today. It looks like the antenna, and maybe the defrost go through the box.

I'm wondering if I can re wire the defrost part to work with my existing harness?

Anyone run into this issue?

 

The part is called an antenna amplifier. I’m thinking maybe it runs the defrost too? There’s a couple of strips that connect to it, that go to the window defrosting strips. Can anyone confirm this?

 

Heres a pic. I'm guessing that they changed this for the facelift cars or something.

On my car, the black box is what I need to use.


The problem is those two little wires from gray box go to the window defrost stip. On the original hatch they go to the black box via a plug. I'm not sure if I can make this work.

 

So apparently this box uses the rear defroster as an antenna signal. My SEL is on and I'm guessing its for this thing not getting a signal. I'm trying to find a wiring diagram but I'm not good at reading that. I need to know what signals the red plug needs, there are 3 wires that all go to the strips on the window.

 

Heres the old hatch. It had 3 of these going to a red plug. The new window has 2 spots.

 

Confirmed that my defrost strips still work, so maybe the last plug with the 3 wires is all for signal? Kinda want to snip that 3 wire plug off and merge it into those 2 prongs that go to the window, but i don't want to wreck anything....its that or i pay a glass shop to swap windows i guess.