mounting a sirrus antenna

Post by **Bfowler** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:10 am

Any tips? i am doing one for a friend in the next couple weeks and really want to avoid putting it on the outside of the car.

the car is a 95 bmw 540

Post by **VW337** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:41 am

Sirius is not locally re-broadcast like XM, it will need to be external for best performance and reliability.

I can aid in the matter, hollar.

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:32 pm

place mine inside on the rear deck in Nissan & no problems. remember its all L.O.S.

Post by **Bfowler** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:11 pm

thats what i was hoping to hear. we will give it a shot

Post by **VW337** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:17 pm

Why no roof?

BTW how'd the truck turn out?

Post by **Bfowler** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:26 pm

just becasue it looks tacky on the roof.

the truck turned out great, we were at it until 10 though and we need tocover the box

gridracer · Post by **gridracer** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:19 pm

Bfowler wrote:just becasue it looks tacky on the roof.

If you run the wire neatly and hidden and color match the antenna to the car its hardly noticable. Just don't use paint with metal content and use a good plastic adhesion promoter instead of scuff sanding it. An effective way of seeing if the paint interfers with the signal is to paint a ziploc bag and place the antenna inside if it works then the paint you have chosen is not a problem.

Post by **Bfowler** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:25 pm

hmm, that might work. we will try the back shelf first, and if that doesnt work, paint match time

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:04 pm

did mine right next to the 3rd brake light ...just cut a tiny notch the size of the wire diameter.

Post by **Bfowler** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:39 am

Mastiff wrote:did mine right next to the 3rd brake light ...just cut a tiny notch the size of the wire diameter.

doent supposed i could talk you into snapping a pic?

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:44 am

sure but the car isnt here now, the wife has it. can get one before i go into work.

Post by **Bfowler** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:57 am

no rush. i wont be doing this until next weekend, so whenever you have the time. thanks

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:17 am

just looked at a 540 photo ... you should be able to do what i did as the rear window has pleanty of angle and surface area e.g. L.O.S.

Post by **VW337** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:35 pm

An issue I had brought up to Brian offline is the factory rear window has a certain amount of tint to it which happens to be metallic also the rear defog elements are metallic this adds up to limited reception, which will make the signal fail where it otherwise wouldn't.