Firstly, the mobile phone antenna simply unscrews from the antenna base and you might find you can thread an antenna to screw straight in. The rf cable runs down the driver's side rear pillar, under the rear seat elbow cushion and along the driver's side sill under the plastic trim panels. It terminates at a connector (a wierd one) behind the driver's side kick panel.
If you need to replace the whole thing as I did, no need to remove the roof lining. I found just the plastic trim strip that conceals the high level brake light is enough. With care, you can snap the centre of this strip downwards away from its mounting clips and carefully ease one side out from under the rear pillar trim panel. You will then be able to see the rear of the antenna base.
The antenna base simply unscrews from the top, leaving a base section connected to the cable underneath. It has an FME connector, IIRC, female on the cable and male on the antenna base.
You will be left with a hole perhaps 15-18mm diameter in the roof panel. I wanted an antenna to cover the 2m and 70cm amateur bands but without looking as obvious as most amateur stuff does. I used a Panorama M8 base
http://www.panorama.co.uk/uk/products/pmr_modular_bases.html. Looking at it again, their "euro mount" base looks to be very similar below the panel to the base I removed and would probably screw straight on.
I used the existing antenna feeder to pull a new length of coax across the roof and down the pillar from the antenna to the rear seat belt area and ran it into the cubby hole in the boot where the radio is mounted.
The antenna I used is an AVDFHB
http://www.panorama.co.uk/uk/products/pmr_modular_whips.html but you can get a whole range of antennae for various different frequencies depending on your interest. They can be removed with just a single grub screw so you could even have a couple and interchange them to suit.
Kevin
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