Phoenix Gold Phorum

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

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.

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

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

Why no roof?

BTW how'd the truck turn out?

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.