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    the magnetic XM antenna will work inside the car but works way better mounted on the outside. you want a clear shot at the sky for the best signal.

    if you stop under a large over pass or just driving under one thats big enough, the signal cuts out, same goes for large trees in summer with full leaves. you can also lose signal when on mountain roads the mt can block it out sometimes.

    but all that happens so rarely, its a non issue.

    ill get a few close up for ya of the antenna wires. ive set up this way 6 times already on all my own 3 cars and trucks. plus 3 or 4 work trucks.

    only 2 trucks ever got the full wire tuck detail, the rest were a bag of wires to set up if i used that truck that day. (i took it all out at the end of the day) i can rig XM into anything in less then 10 minutes, about how long it take to warm up a big truck. i even had a power port socket with jumpers on it to jump it into the fuse box of a truck if it had no power ports.

    last place i worked the pick up i had to drive sometimes had no radio at all. so i took along a am/fm battery radio, and hooked xm up to that. im that good lol

    Im ghetto fabulous lol


    you can also buy a home kit, and take it off the cradle in the car, bring it inside and hook it up to your home stereo as well. after its wired up its as easy as putting it on the home cradle and its a go.

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    ghetto fabulous. LOL can't wait to admire your strategy, and put it in place of course
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    its dark out, so ill get pics for ya tomorrow.

    and get some small zip ties too, the car kit should come with 2 i think. but its nice to wrap up and tie the extra wire up, then stash it in the dash or under the console. the wires are real long for everything, 25 feet long i think.

    you'll want find a place close to the edge of the dash trim, to mount the unit. where you can run the wires and have them pop out and get to the unit with short wires, so its not a ugly install, and looks neat. or stash it in a cubby.

    every car or truck ive done with a full install, you only saw 2 inches of wires popping out of the dash trim somewhere to the unit. and the power cord of course.

    even in the regal, im using the tape deck, theres very little wire showing to the tape deck.

    im going to run another power port and wire it to power on only, ( key in and on) and then drop the power port under the console with the xm power plug. then i wont even see that cord or plug. my units in my cubby so its all hidden, wires are out of sight and the unit as well if the door is shut on it. which i like.

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    I'm puttin mine in the cubby under the cigarette tray. But I'm gonna have to see the unit and the mount before I can figure out HOW I'm gonna mount it. I'm not so good at nice. I'm good at function, but not nice. lol. So we'll see how this turns out.
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    i took a piece of wood, and cut it to fit inside the cubby, screwed it in from both sides, and the bottom, them screwed the mount the wood. cant see the wood at all lol

    its cleaner looking now, as i re did it all in a newer console now.



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    lord... i ain't got time for all that lol. Idk I may rig up some of that fancy velcro plastic stuff, like I said I need to see what I'm working with first.
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    when i put it in my old truck i just used silicone glue to hold it where i wanted. the glue held for two years until i took it out of the truck then all the glue just peeled off and didnt damage anything or leave anything behind
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    Quote Originally Posted by brandonl2000 View Post
    lord... i ain't got time for all that lol. Idk I may rig up some of that fancy velcro plastic stuff, like I said I need to see what I'm working with first.

    not gonna lie, i put some time into it, not that much tho. 2 hours maybe, made a paper cut out of the hole, but found it needed to be beveled some to fit nice, some trial and error. i used a copping saw to cut the wood, lots of control for turns.

    and the console came out. easier to work on the fitment, and drilling the holes for the screws.

    i dont know the gp interior well enough to know what your working with, but if its a shallow cubby, you can nut and bolt the mount inside to the back of it. it lights up pretty bright. i have mine turned down some its so bright.

    or use the sticky pad on the back of the mount. it sticks pretty good and is hard to get off years later. ive ripped 3 off so far needed a screw driver to get it off, never took the finish off any thing yet. you need to roll the glue off the dash or where ever its been stuck to.

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    well i wont use glue thats a tad too tacky. i just dont have a drill or any materials
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    post a pic of where your thinking of putting it. we can figure something out for ya.

    the wood i used was 3x4 inch of ply wood, a scrap i found. used some sheet rock screws.

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    I just put mine in the cubby with velcro.
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    pretty much same place as in the regal. this is not my gp, but under the ash tray in the bottom cubby there.

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    see how the in the back of the cubby it's a flat piece of plastic? I'm thinking if possible ill just get some of that plastic velcro stuff and mount it flat against the back. just gotta see how visibility will work out with that idea.
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    is that a big wide open hole there? its hard to tell. if so they do sell flex mounts, would be a lot cleaner looking if its a big hole.

    most of the flex mounts here are suction cup mounts. XM Radio Vehicle Mounts but with your kit should be a disk that glues to the dash, so you can use a suction cup, if you screw in a s/c mount, and then use one of these mounts to mount it too, it may come out pretty good and clean looking.

    need better pics to know for sure tho.

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    they sell remotes for most of these new units too. it may come with one, i have 2 now, the last 2 units came with one, and both work the new one. i use it sometimes, sits on a sticky pad on my dash most of the time.

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    here maybe this pic will help.

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    my guess is the led screen is after market right? if so mount it to one side or the other so you can see it best, and hide the wires up under the draw, and then under the console.

    make sure you can reach it with easy too when driving.

    all the steering wheel controls will do now is the volume. or change the channel on ya when turning a corner lol

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    yeah thats not my car. thats someone elses. but basically that's where i would want my unit to be, flat up against the back of the plastic there.
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    DO-IT!

    that would work, short trip for the wires to hide from there.

    if i i were you. id drop a power port under the console too. it will clean up the look a lot. they used to have a hard wire kit, that you ran to the fuse box, but they stopped selling it.

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    power port, as in run a power line to it rather than that long ass cig lighter plug?
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