riptricket wrote:
Well, I have tried out the back glass, water flooded the entire cargo area... and I mean flooded. If Ihad had my camera, I would have taken pics, but trust me, it was about 2 inches of water. I had to take all of the plastic off the sides an it was just a huge mess. So I want to go with something that works and that has been prooven that it works too!
I also had a cellular phone antenna that I stupidly ran inbetween the top of the driver door and the weather stripping... yeah well, I have a thru-the-glass cell phone antenna now because I had not read anything on here about how the pinching would cause it to tear.
So you could say I am tired of trying things that I think might work, and won't to see what you L.O.S.T. exerts know...becaue there are quite a few more heads here, than my lonely self!!!
Thanks!
My point is that you need to look into ALL of the alternatives. And then DO IT RIGHT like Tomm says.
Trough the roof mounts work great and do not leak if installed correctly AND the integrity of the mount is NOT compromised by anything hitting the antenna hard and low close to the mounting post (like a low tree limb).
BUT you are married to the mount. I have ALWAYS (untill the new cell phones cam out) had a center of the roof cell antenna and Alway installed myself and NEVER had a leak. (Roof mounted Cell phones in all 5 XJ's)
Anyway, I was not criticizing just warning you to make sure that is what you want to do and do it right. DON'T SKIMP!!!!
These guys have good stuff.
http://www.walcottcb.com/firestik-mkdm18r-single-rooftrunk-mount-minikit-p-577.html?cPath=28_353_432