[TimMullen]

Okay... You all forced me into it...

My car is a very early '05 Base (as in no Touring) - serial number in the low 100s. I took off the "cubby" cover on the passenger side (hint don't be clever and use a stubby Phillips - it works better to use a regular longer length Phillips driver). The two screws are located on the bottom rear of the cover at approximately a 45 degree angle from vertical (which is why the stubby was not useful). Note: Upon re-assembly, I noticed that the screws are not Phillips, but number 2 Pozi (PZ-2) - that explains why it kept feeling like the screw driver was "slipping". I you don't have Pozi bits, you should probably get some - a lot of the screws on the Elise are Pozi and not Phillips.

There was no foam block - maybe it's a Touring thing, or a later car thing.

The edges of the aluminum are covered in "foam tape", and I had no danger of cutting myself.

The first photo below shows the "cubby" with the cover off. The alarm is apparently in the plastic bag, and the harness is located just below/behind the upper edge of the aluminum on the bottom with the foam tape on it.

The second photo shows the antenna wire pulled up a bit from the harness (it's the bundle of wire wrapped with tape - you can see a bit of the unwrapped wires where there is a gap in the tape). A small section or the black antenna wire is exposed, and the end is taped up in the harness to the left.

I pulled out the wire (stuck my finger between the wire and the rest of the harness, and pulled it to the right. It didn't want to come loose at first, and then popped out. I "bent" the wire to stick up in the cubby, and went into the house from the garage and about 6 feet laterally from the door. The alarm remote worked from there with no problem. As I backed farther from the opening, it didn't want to work anymore, but then again, it then had a tall roll around tool chest (stuffed with tools) and an air compressor between me and the car. I'll check again in the morning with the car parked in the parking lot at work. It used to only work when I was a couple of feet from the doors or the rear of the car (never tried it from the front).

The last photo shows the antenna wire sticking straight up (more or less). The ware is only about 3-4 inches long at that point. I'll put some tape on the end of the wire - you can see bare strands of wire, so it's probably good to prevent it from shorting to ground.