Install A Roof Antenna With Wire Under Headliner

Excess wire coiled up in same location.

Install a roof antenna with wire under headliner.

First it may be more cumbersome to install a large tv antenna than a small one so you may want to enlist some help if you cannot manage it on your own. Then if present snap the listing wire or wires into longitudinal bow receptacles. This solved the problem for about 4 months. After two hours could not find the other end under the dash.

If you do not have the v prongs skip the next step. Then work forward and install remaining side to side wires. You want the listing wires. During the installation i found a sirius xm antenna inside the cap on top of the driver s side cabinet up against 1 high aluminum angle on one side.

He wants about 700 to remove headliner change antenna wires. Check in the center of the roof for a row of v shaped prongs across the car. When its lower than a few wavelengths and at multiples of 1 4 wavelength like 1 4 3 4 etc the pattern of a vertical antenna can be pushed upward and away from the horizon a bit lowering its gain at the horizon. Second some may find large tv antennas to be unsightly.

Installed sirius xm antenna on the roof where it belongs. Size plays a factor in two ways. This is where the short bow will attach. Work toward the rear and install the side to side wires.

I mounted the antenna at the trailing edge of the roof and ran the wire down through the factory antenna mounting hole. It required putting a small groove in the base of the factory antenna and then i sealed everything up with black rtv. I would consider a vhf uhf antenna over a huge metal roof ground plane similar to an hf antenna over earth ground. You can adjust the listing wires upward or downward by utilizing appropriate holes in the sides.

Find the front of your new headliner and insert the bows in the listings sewn into the backside of the headliner. The static noise signal fade has gradually returned and is as bad now as it was before dealer put on the electrical grease. Installing my xm antenna is exactly why i had the headliner out. You can also buy non penetrating mounts that use weights rather than screws to hold them in place.

As a general rule the farther an outdoor tv antenna s range the larger the antenna is. Now he tells me i have a short in the antenna wire which runs under the headliner.