sirius/xm

[leghumper]

what do you have and where do you have yours located. I have to get a new reciever for my 95

[bogus]

locate what? the antenna?

There is this great section here with tons of audio related answers: Audio/Electronics Forum

[Vette Gator]

My car came with a Kenwood Sirius-compatible head unit in the dash. I was told that the Sirius receiver was somewhere behind the breadbox, but I've never looked for it. The antenna is attached to the rear deck just behind the convertible deck lid.

[96RedRoadster]

I have the S50 Sirius that I plug into the cigarette lighter. Nothing is mounted - I keep it all in a Crown Royal bag (luckily I happened to have an empty one ) and take it to the car only on longer cruises.

I also bought the home kit so I can use the system in my office, home or the car kit.

When I travel it also records several hours of programming that I playback on airplanes, jogging, etc.

Best Buy wanted to drill here and bolt there and I said - CYA

It's worked well for me for 2 years now and the interior remains stock looking.

[ZfidyONE-84]

i actually have a modified sharkfin antenna from a 2007 mercury montego, i gutted the inside, and stuck my stock XM antenna into the enpty shell... i have no problems with signal loss, and looks pretty good

[Rex Ruby]

Originally Posted by ZfidyONE-84

i actually have a modified sharkfin antenna from a 2007 mercury montego, i gutted the inside, and stuck my stock XM antenna into the enpty shell... i have no problems with signal loss, and looks pretty good

I have XM but I understand XM and Sirus are merging. I mounted my antenna on the rear hatch glass up near where the above is mounted but on the glass on the left side. No wire showing. The receiver is mounted to the left of the Bose unit. I took off the dash piece and mounted a (custom bent) bracket to 2 bolts that hold the Bose (or the HVAC unit, can't remember). So the bracket comes out from under the dash cover to hold the receiver. The power is hot wired in, no cig plug!

[Goldcylon]

Originally Posted by ZfidyONE-84

i actually have a modified sharkfin antenna from a 2007 mercury montego, i gutted the inside, and stuck my stock XM antenna into the enpty shell... i have no problems with signal loss, and looks pretty good

I think it looks good too, like a small shark fin!! A good location

[ZfidyONE-84]

Originally Posted by Goldcylon

I think it looks good too, like a small shark fin!! A good location

i still have some clean up work to do with the wiring, but when i installed it i had just peeled off half the paper for the tape, but it is very solid, and has been tested up to around........ well i'm not gonna say, but it was not quite to triple digits

and i was looking for something that would fit on the rear window flap, and all the ones i saw on ebay, and other european cars were about an inch or 2 too long, and the ones from the new freestyle, montego were prefect lenght

[finnor]

96 Convertible with Sirius Starbase

Hardwired into accessory plug, wireless transmit to head unit, antenna under hard tonneau cover.

--Tor

[Goldcylon]

Originally Posted by finnor

96 Convertible with Sirius Starbase

Hardwired into accessory plug, wireless transmit to head unit, antenna under hard tonneau cover.

--Tor

Orange Orbit mod optional!! Actually a very good set up there and you actually use the cassette case holders!!!!!

[ZfidyONE-84]

looks good, i wish my XM reciever would fit in the little cubby where the power seat adjustment is

[fatdog96]

Here's my mount that I made for my XM myfi out of some polycarb plastic. I work in a plastics machine shop, so that kinda helps. Anyway, I removed the top of the center console and made the inside bracket with a 180 deg. bend that 'hooks' over the lip of the transmission tunnel, then attached all the other parts with some small flat-head screws. I also lined the entire underside of the mount with some self-adhesive felt so there was no worry of scratches... and I didn't have to drill or stick anything to my car.

I also wired mine directly to the accessory leads in the center console (I actually found them when I took the console apart, who knew?), and use the cassette adapter. You can barely see the wire running into the cassette deck from behind the bezel.

[BearCreekC6]

I just had a Kenwood DNX7100 installed. The salesman talked me into Sirius but I didn't want the antenna on the exterior of the car. After reading several threads on antenna locations, I had it installed under the grill on the dash. The reception was not very good. I spoke to the techs at Kenwood and was told the antenna for XM was much better for that location. It's being installed Monday.