Can a car antenna be painted, without reception issues?

I bought a new, White Kia Rio, with a satellite radio antenna. I use the AM/FM, & don’t care to pay for the satellite channels.

I has wanted to put a little Dayglo Green paint on the antenna, so I could find it in the parking lots easier.

Will this futz-up reception?

As long as the dry paint has no metallic content and is not conductive it should have no effect.

Okay…anybody done this?

Whatever you do take it off first before painting. Assuming it’s a springy stainless steel whip finding a glow in the dark paint that will adhere to that non-reactive surface through rain, hot sun, snow, ice etc might be a challenge. Glow in the dark shrink tubing might be a better and less messy solution.

No, it’s one of the new, shorter, rubberized antennas, on the roof.

Per the pic
It’s a nice elegant little antenna I don’t think adding glow paint is going to be all that great.

I’m just trying to make it easier to find the sucker in a parking lot full of other White cars.

no, painting it won’t hurt anything, so long as it’s not (as already mentioned) metallic paint. the 2 or 3 antennas in that module already have a layer of plastic over them.