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<p><font face="Arial">The more I look at the vehicle, the more I
read and the more I hear, the less I want to install something
I'll hardly use!</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">I did consider a nudge bar but not at $800.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">I'll build up a tilt-over mast for at home and
populate it before I spend too much time on the X-Trail.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Ray vk2tv</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/12/17 20:40, Liz wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I've just looked at my X-Trail and I think I've lost any enthusiasm I
had for installing radios, hi. I think the engine block was poured in
situ!
The main frame of the vehicle - subframe, floor pan, roof, firewall
and door frames - seems to be a welded mass of metal to which
mudguards, bonnet, doors, etc are bolted, so any bolts attaching
components to the sub-frame could be a possibility. A "Z" bracket
coming out from under the bonnet could possibly utilise one of the
mudguard mounting bolts. A magbase on the edge of the bonnet could be
earthed via a short lead to a mudguard mount or the bonnet hinge
mount. Most bonnets are not purposely earthed so heavy(ish) straps
(RG213 braid, e.g.) around the hinges could be beneficial. A couple
of possibilities there, but this is just one specific vehicle.
My days of crawling over and under vehicles to install radios ended a
long time ago; these days I'm the wrong shape for crawling under, and
multi-focal spectacles don't work well upside down under a dash.
Ray
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I've got a 32 series Xtrail.
You forgot to mention the 8cm of insulating foam as well....
My OM took out the passenger seat and got a base plate fitted to the
base of the seat, on which the radios sit, with one head on the dash
and the other on a stalk attached to the passenger seat bolt.
Antenna for 2m is in the middle of the roof and HF antenna on the
bullbar. As indicated previously, motorising the antenna support cost
about $45K.
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