Cab: Electric Aerial Alternatives.

[Mac3]

Hi All

I have a cab that has an electric aeriel. I feel that when its raised, it spoils the lines of the car. Its like a giant lighning conductor.

Has anyone looked into an alternative?

The later E36 convertibles have a neater smaller one in a fixed position near the boot on the passanger side..

Thanks for any input..

[DaveD]

seen one with a fixed aerial over the mirror ........

[Bally]

I have put a small black slim one approx where it goes on e36 , about 3 inches away from taillight (from the boot you can still remove tailight holder and trim all goes back.

[Ziggy]

Problem is that anything other than a screen mount jobbie will look out of place all the time! How about a simple switch to put it down when you're listening to something other than the radio?

[cliffybabe]

yeah dead switch the ariel unless ur listening to the radio unless its a chrome ariel

[Dave_M3]

My last aerial went down if you were listening to something other than the radio

Hopefully I'll find another one of them now since I broke mine today after it was only in a month or two

[Mac3]

Thanks for the replies Lads, i'll probably start with a de-chromed one for a kick off and see how that looks.

Thanks again,

Mac

[gazza]

i cut the feed to the ariel put a single e30 fog light switch on it and mounted it in a spare opening in the dash so i can control it myself

[Chase007]

i cut the feed to the ariel put a single e30 fog light switch on it and mounted it in a spare opening in the dash so i can control it myself

Very good there gazza i was going to use some shite flick switch wath a good idea thinking out the box hey

[GDBN]

I have put a proper BMW switch, which cuts out the aerial, near the window switches.
I don't listen to the radio that often and the aerial whistles a bit at speed with the roof down.



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