That's a friends car, it's an supercharged M3 w/ endless mods, so it's indeed impressive. I was refering to Dino's vanity plates when I said I don't know what it stands for.

Dinoman - 4/27/2006 11:36 AM Ynot, In New York we have either personalized standard-type plates or "Custom Plates," with or without personalization. The standard ones can be personalized with up to eight letters/numbers/spaces in combination, but the Custom ones only have room for six (and are usually overdone in their designs/slogans). Since 1996, all personalized NY plates have been photoprinted, giving them a bit of an artificial look. In 1998, at the Pebble Beach Concours they honored the Porsche 50th anniversary. A guy I know, who collects Porsches, was invited to bring one of his cars to the concours. The car's plate was "WEISSACH," for the Porsche test track. Jerry Seinfeld, who is a big Porsche collector, saw the car and asked the owner if the plate was real. At that time, the technology was new to NY plates, and many people were still unfamiliar with the "flat" plates. I don't like the look of them, but the DMV frowns on those who try to make their own! Dinoman

 Interesting, thanks for the info

Roomie: Many ppl from both benzworld and mbworld had problems with the SL antenna, that's the reason why I didn't purchase it. I opt for the r170 one which works great for me. Some report it didn't work as well but nothing compared to the complaints about the SL antenna. I'm surprised Dinoman's worked w/o the bumper extension. The r170 one is a little longer, I attached a pic below. The antenna based can be painted, just unscrew the antenna bit and tape up everything except the antenna base (hard plastic). The range for lock/unlock is reduce but since you don't care it will not be a problem, the range is still more than 50', it doesn't bother me at all, I like to hear my car lock and unlock. I'm with you, the antenna must be the ugliest part of the car, everything else is perfect.

Julien: When I took out the antenna base to get painted, I've notice there is an extension that stretches to the bumper so there's a possibility that the SL one might work. I'm confused why you need another one for the SL or was it that you have to remove the previous one and install the new one?

Yes,

1. First twist off the antenna bit

2. There should be a bolt that needs to be unscrewed, after you remove the bolt, pull the base forward, there should be a wire that connects to the bumper, just pull it out, make sure you tape it to the car otherwise it slip into the hole and will be hard to get out.

3. To install it back, you will need to remove the black carpet paneling to find the metal plate that holds the bolt together, that most likely will slip off when you remove the bolt. I don't think I'm explaining it well enough, but most of it is self-explanatory when you remove it. Hope that helps. let me know if you still have problems when you try to remove it.

 Here's a better explanation

http://www.benzworld.org/forums/r171-slk-class/1234014-how-remove-base-antenna.html?highlight=antenna+base