jschatte

I installed my xm tuner a while back, but never got around to putting these pics up. I hope this is helpful for you guys, just to show you can retain the factory mount and antenna from your stock xm tuner setup.

heres the two units (stock xm tuner and pioneer xm tuner)



Heres where i dremaled the antenna plug so the stock antenna would plug right into the pioneer unit



heres a quick picture of what i did to make the stock antenna plug work



The completed pioneer tuner mounted to the factory tuner bracket



After i installed the unit (sorry crappy cell phone pic)



enjoy!

EmperorJJ1

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nice... great to hear!!

jschatte

thanks man

08G5GT2.4L

Very nice. Ill be using the knowledge you just gave me when I upgrade down the road. I mostly listen to XM so its good to know I can use the factory antenna with the A/M HU.

rmorris003

thanks for the info i was thinking of renewing my sirius but now i know i can use my stock antenna for xm i may just go back to xm and how long was the wire to go back to the deck, i have a pioneer 4100dvd unit

nm, ebay does have a 15 foot cable if the one that comes with the tuner is not 15 foot to go from the back to the deck

jschatte

the ip-bus wire that is included is really long, i would say 15ft

StLT2008

killer, ive been looking into doing the same deal with my factory xm tuner. im still scouring the webs, but does anyone know where the tuner is on a 4 door? im thinking under the rear seat or the rear deck.

EmperorJJ1

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idk probably the same under the rear deck

StLT2008

yeah im sure it is, real quick, does anyone know where in the car the stock antenna is ran from? i had the head installed and im probably going to have to dig for the stock antenna plug.

EmperorJJ1

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im not sure what you mean but it should be plugged in to the tuner box

PsychoCam

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call me a noob but what is the point of this?

EmperorJJ1

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to utilize the stock antenna vs running a second one and leaving the stock on there useless

PsychoCam

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is there a benefit from using a pioneer xm rather than just renuing ur stock one? or is the pioneer one for aftermarket headunits?

EmperorJJ1

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correct you can only use the stock tuner with the stock radio. and only use the pioneer one with an after market pioneer radio.

strykr

This actually helped my out! Thanks OP!! I never would have thought to dremel the original XM connector, got everything hooked up and it works as if it was stock. Only problem now is that i gotta figure out why the sound on my XM is quieter then the other sources i have... dont think thats an xm thing though, im guessing its more to do with the deck.

cobalt blue

Damn I wish I saw this posting about a year ago, it wouldve def helped me out, instead I just took off the plastic lock on the factory plug and dont have it anymore, oh well nice idea just the same.

EmperorJJ1

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bump