I have a '94 Integra (2 door hatch) and want to get Sirius. I already have a Kenwood Sirius ready receiver. I know they say to mount the antenna on the roof with at least 10 inches of metal all around it, but I don't want it to look like ****. I am kind of **** about the way **** looks (kind of a daily driver show car, except for winter). Any suggestions? I have a sunroof and a wing, so that kind of limits things, but I am sick of FM radio, and getting tired of my very large music collection.
Any suggestions?

 

Don't worry about the metal thing. You can either mount it above your windshield on the roof or you can mount it back by the hatch. Just route the wire carefully.

 

No matter where you put it it will look funny. I would be more concerened about funtionality

 

I have my Siruis antenna on the rear deck of my 2-door and the window is even tinted (tint has metal = blocks some signal). It works fine for me and generally doesn't lose signal. Before this, I had it under the sunroof glass above the visor part. Worked fine there too.

I wouldn't worry a bit about "10 inches of metal" around the antenna, it doesn't need a metal ground plane to work right.

I'm thinking you could build a small shelf out of plastic or aluminum that mounts to the inside of the hatch trim. I would say closer to the hinge instead of the latch; there is a lot more closing vibrations at the latch vs. the hinge area.

 

well, the rear hatch piece that is behind the seats no longer exists, as everything behind the front seats is stereo equipment. I may try and put it where the third brake light would normally be or at the top of the inside of the rear window (although I was planning on putting the GPS receiver there)

 

you can usually get away with mounting the antena on top of your dashboard.

we do this all the time in the boston area and have had very few complaints with sirius reception. yes, there are more terrestial repeaters around the city, but i figure our customers drive all over new england.

if it didn't work too well on the dash because of obstruction from the roof or the a-pillar, I'd try to mount it under that plastic cowl on the base of the windsheild. we did that with 2 996 porsches with XM and never had a problem and the customers drive to CT on a regular basis. I find that XM reception isn't as good as sirius.

 

I tried the dash, it was okay, but there were some reception problems.

 

down here we've found siruis to be more particular with reception than Siruis, most of our xm customer have their ant. mounted underneath the dash board somewhere aiming through th plastic padding and the windsheild, a few siruis customers have gotten away with on the dahboard mounts, but for the most part we mount them outside, we've put a few on the outside of the wiper cowl, and is usually not to noticable...

 

I just got Sirius and wanted to bump this up to get more opinions on where to mount the antenna on a '01 teg. Post your pics up!