in dash sat nav instal on 129sl

[Shude]

Unlikey to work, don't know what's different about trackers etc, but these GPS aerials need better line of sight than that - thin plastic at top of dash perhaps, under carpet I would be shocked.

mine is under a metal grill (which should sheild it if anything!) and it gets maximum sats most of the time!

 

[mapleleaf]

Unlikey to work, don't know what's different about trackers etc, but these GPS aerials need better line of sight than that - thin plastic at top of dash perhaps, under carpet I would be shocked.

I agree, I watched the tracker guy fit a system to my old E55 & my AM and they def need a line of site to the sky.

on the SL it may work under the carpet but only if you never ever fit the hard top & what about the effect of a passengers body /legs getting in the way .

 

[Shude]

on the SL it may work under the carpet but only if you never ever fit the hard top & what about the effect of a passengers body /legs getting in the way .

The car I saw it on was an SLK, it was in the passenger footwell.

 

[mapleleaf]

I still cant believe that would work

 

[doriant]

I fitted mine just under the dash, the GPS antennas was a S class unit.
Take out the top glove box and you will find a gap between the steel dash rails, just put (wedge) it under the dash, central.
What you dont skin your knuckles ....

 

[nickg]

By the "top glove box" I assume you mean the passenger airbag. How does this come out, and is it wise to have the antenna so close to the airbag?

 

[peterchurch]

?? The glove box is the little sunglasses holder over the CC unit vents. It should be nowhere near the air bag

 

[mapleleaf]

I fitted mine just under the dash, the GPS antennas was a S class unit.
Take out the top glove box and you will find a gap between the steel dash rails, just put (wedge) it under the dash, central.
What you dont skin your knuckles ....

I tried that but got really poor reception