Just looking for some advise on shaving the antenna hole

Do I need to purchase a new smaller antenna for inside the trunk ?? Where do you guys mount the antenna ?? Radio reception suffer at all?

Thanks guys
Matty

 

fm didn't really suffer too much. Am went from bad to terrible.
really depends on what you wanna do. I replaced my deck and listen to sirius/xm almost all the time. I didn't bother with replacing the antenna.

on second thought, this might be specific to your area and the strength of the signals. you might want to test it out by disconnecting the radio and see if you can live with the signal strength.

 

Anyone replace the antenna with a smaller unit and mount it in the trunk ??

Tryin to decide if while the cars in the body shop, im gonna get this done

-matt

 

Like JSMax said, pull the cable and see if you need it. I would guess that an ant in the trunk would be pretty well blocked from receiving well, anyway. If you 'need' AM, you'll have to come up with something, but local FM doesn't need the ant.

 

When I was doing a boat stereo install, I heard from a salesman at West Marine to mount the cable antennae to two surfaces with it bent halfway in the middle at a 90degree angle. That way whenever you turn, the antennae always has a side facing the signal(ie it's never straight on to the signal). Hope this helps.

If I were to remove the telescoping one, I would put the new cable antannae up the door pillar by the windshield and bend it around to the headliner.

 

if you have bose it doesn't matter. bose will use the printed antenna on the rear windshield (di-polar, uses whichever has the best signal) or, if you have an aftermarket hu, swap the antenna adapter around to use the printed antenna.

if you have a non-bose radio, you could look into an amplified antenna. mount it pretty much wherever you want inside the vehicle.

 

I got my antenna right above my rear view mirror paid like 20 bucks for it

 

pictures? never heard of this before. might be interested in it.

matty... just do it. see my sig for the picture without. makes the lines cleaner I think.

 

I shaved mines and replaced it with a bmw style roof mount antenna. My reception did not change at all...

 

you mean to cut the locking tab on the side on the antenna adapter and plug it in the other way? if so, damn i didnt know that...thats sick.

 

Not too many people realize that the Bose system incorporated an antenna in the rear window.

 

There is a 'sharkfin' antenna on Ebay at the moment for ~15$

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I'm planning on shaving my semi-working antenna for a functional roof fin as well!

 

There is also an antenna that you can mount ON the glass - goes at top of either front or rear windshield. - not sure what size the plug for the back of the radio is on those though.