(1996 Q) Idiotic post here

[King Charles]

Where is the power steering res. located & what color should fluid be just heard a groan on a cold start turn.

[BCC93QT]

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[King Charles]

Thanks
Also I'm putting a XM Onyx receiver in and would like to know a easy way to run the magnetic antenna to the hood via a space in the firewall trying to avoid running it the length of the car to the back.

[Turbon8er]

put the XM antenna on the corner or middle of the front dash and any excess ant wire wrap into a nice circle. "Do NOT squish it up tightly. If so it will distort the signal and decrease reception", that is straight from the company rep. Those Antennas will get plenty of signal from the front windshield area on these cars. Not to mention the magnetic bottom will scratch your paint badly over time. I've seen so many nice cars get nasty spots on roofs and panels from them. Installed hundreds, maybe thousands of Sat radios. The front dash works great for most cars, trucks not so much due to the angle of the glass. Tint can also interfere.

Get yourself a set of plastic panel tools, if you haven't yet. They will save your plastic and soft dash panels!

The firewall is a pita to get through. You can check almost every Sat radio install that's done, the front door jamb by the windshield is where the ant wire gets snuck through. The standard is to lift the doorseal, put a small notch in the body seam with snips (to keep the wire from being damaged) and run it under the door/cowl/windshield seals. In some cases hiding the wire with black duct tape or soft velcro in the jamb space. All that work just to mess up your paint and leave the ant vulnerable to to the weather, which will kill those ant in a couple years. The Sirius Ant's are a lil tougher, and usually require external mounting because of poor reception quality.

i have an onyx that i got thru accommodation while doing car install at BestBuy years back. When they ran the free channels promotion recently i threw the antenna on the dash just to listen for those two free weeks. The reception was fine and typical. I like variety, but the terrible bitrate of sat radio just kills me. It's an audiophile's nightmare, because you just can't tune out bad quality sound.

[King Charles]

Awesome input,thanks.

[elwesso]

Actually one place I found that works really well on the Q is that little space above the rear view mirror.. I think it's even metal so it will stick to it through the plastic. You can then tuck the wire up on that trim piece that has the sun visors on it, and run it down the C-pillars. I agree though, the magnets will scratch the car..

[melvingoku]

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very classy lol

[King Charles]

Is that grill on the back window deck a ported subwoofer if so what size & make is it.