Install A Roof Antenna With Wire Under Headliner

You can adjust the listing wires upward or downward by utilizing appropriate holes in the sides.

Install a roof antenna with wire under headliner.

Size plays a factor in two ways. Installing my xm antenna is exactly why i had the headliner out. Find the front of your new headliner and insert the bows in the listings sewn into the backside of the headliner. Now he tells me i have a short in the antenna wire which runs under the headliner.

As a general rule the farther an outdoor tv antenna s range the larger the antenna is. Lift the headliner to the roof and install the number 3 wire rod. You want the listing wires. 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.

This is where the short bow will attach. You can also buy non penetrating mounts that use weights rather than screws to hold them in place. In order to mount an antenna on your roof without damaging it you should attach the antenna to the gable the fascia or the chimney. 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.

I mounted the antenna at the trailing edge of the roof and ran the wire down through the factory antenna mounting hole. He wants about 700 to remove headliner change antenna wires. Excess wire coiled up in same location. After two hours could not find the other end under the dash.

Whatever you do do not put holes in your roof to attach your antenna. Installed sirius xm antenna on the roof where it belongs. 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. Then work forward and install remaining side to side wires.

I would consider a vhf uhf antenna over a huge metal roof ground plane similar to an hf antenna over earth ground. Check in the center of the roof for a row of v shaped prongs across the car. If you do not have the v prongs skip the next step. Then if present snap the listing wire or wires into longitudinal bow receptacles.

Second some may find large tv antennas to be unsightly. It required putting a small groove in the base of the factory antenna and then i sealed everything up with black rtv.