Thread: D4 UHF Install

Nice work Paul.
Can you easily see the UHF controls from the driving position or does the steering wheel interfere?
Is the aerial mounter to the rubber strip? If so is it rigid enough such that it doesn't flex?

That's one area I didn't think of. I've also been thinking of putting it in the glove box...

I have the remot mic so i am using that for controls. I cannot actually see the head unit at all from the driving position as I have mounted the unit a fair way under the leading edge of the dash. I guess you could mount it further forward but that woudl then require drilling some holes to secure the head unit. I have just used the bracket it came with and clamped it over the sound insulation material in that panel.

The Antenna is mounted in the rubber strip it is actually metal underneath extruded aluminium i think very thin but actually very stiff front to rear as i have the rack installed directly behind the mount that clamps down very tightly and the fitting is jammed into the roof and the side of the channel I put some double sided tape foam in to make it a very snug fit (butyl mastic may be an even better securing mechanism) with the whip it is fine. I wouldn't mount a fibreglass rod to this though as there woudln't be enough give in the rod on carpark entries. I actually struck the whip on my garage door at the first opportunity as I forgot I had mounted it! The whip I have can easily bend round on itself. My original mounting point was going to be on the lower section near the front securing hole. I decided to go for the extra height and thought I could one day move to a fibreglass antenna on a rack by just pulling a little more cable through and putting a grommet in the hole to feed the cable.

I would avoid the glove box as there seems to be a lot of electrics on that side of the car. One option i considered was the centre console as you could easily drill the inside of the console and conceal everything with the wiring running under the centre console up to the drivers footwell and through the same hole i used in te firewall. Do you know if there is one of these on the other side? I am thinking of doing a GSM antenna on the other side to give a bit better mobile reception to an FME plug into the back of a phone with bluetoooth to work with the standard bluetooth.

I am installing a UHF into my D4 in basically the same way that PaulGOz has. I am having trouble however, routing the cable coming down the a pillar from the roof into the engine bay. I have tried feeding some wire into the couple of cavities at the bottom of the pillar, however I can't get the wire to appear in the engine bay!

All the posts I have read on installing an aerial this way, don't mention any specific difficulty in getting the cable into the engine bay. So is there a trick I am missing?

Can anyone who has installed cable running down the A pillar and into the engine bay shed any light on how to do this?

Many thanks in advance,
Russ