I drive a 99 si and I hate the antenna on the driver a pillar. Is there a good windsheild mount antenna that gets decent reception so I can shave the factory one off. Also I was wandering if anyone knows how to get the dimmer for my aftermarket gauges to not work in reverse of the factory dash lights. Thanks for the help.

 

Yes there are good "booster" windshield, [inside] ant., something like this... http://www.scosche.com/scosche...D=WMA you can also check with Metra... http://www.metraonline.com/ or ant. manufacturers Harada... http://www.harada.co.jp/englis....html or Hirshmann... http://hus.hirschmann.com/ 94

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by BlownBlackSi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I drive a 99 si and I hate the antenna on the driver a pillar. Is there a good windsheild mount antenna that gets decent reception so I can shave the factory one off. Also I was wandering if anyone knows how to get the dimmer for my aftermarket gauges to not work in reverse of the factory dash lights. Thanks for the help.</TD></TR></TABLE>If the new gauges you talking about are the "electro luminesent" type, [replacement faces] then it may not be possible because normal dash lights get turned up, [brighter at night] the luminescent ones get dimmed, [dimmer at night] as they do not need to be as bright at night to see, kind of like your cars clock or stock, and some aftermarket" HUs readouts. 94

 

I'm not talking about gauge faces, I'm talking about completely aftermarket autometer gauges in my gauge pod and cluster bezel. The dash is all stock gauges. But when I turn up the dimmer to brighten the stock gauges, all my autometer gauges go dim, so I had to hook them up to the headlights...which I don't like. Thanks for the info on the antennas though.

 

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Then you tapped the wrong wire. There's an illumination wire and a dimmer wire. If all else fails, you could always tap the dimmer wire at the radio... :shrugs:

 

That's what I would ask, what did you connect the gauge light lead to the first time, [color of wire and where]?

Unfortunately there may not be a way to dim the gauge lights using the stock dimmer, as it controls the ground to the bulbs, without some mods, if possible, to the gauges illumination circuit, what I had to do to my super comp was open it up, grind away a tract on the pc board that was the ground for the bulb, then solder a wire to the bulb side of tract and run it out with the rest of the wires and connected it the the illumination ground, [red] and the hot lead to the illumination power, [red/black]. 94