SIR GM1

[PARAGON]

I received mine yesterday, but will probably be next week before I rip all the dash back out again and put it in.

Got some other stuff I need to do as well, so it will have to wait till then.

[md_sailor]

Klaus... hello again you helped me back when I installed my 05 Nav and XM. Have you thought about how we might adapt the Factory XM Antenna for the Sirius reciever? YOUR thoughts or suggestions will be appreciated.

[kodiakz]

Originally Posted by md_sailor

Klaus... hello again you helped me back when I installed my 05 Nav and XM. Have you thought about how we might adapt the Factory XM Antenna for the Sirius reciever? YOUR thoughts or suggestions will be appreciated.

Easy actually. Simply remove the cyan housing from the coax connector and plug it ONTO the Sirius tuner. have done many sirius setups like that in gm's. You can even use the larger guage orange and black wires to power the sirius tuner which you then mount right behind the xm tuner or mount it to the heater box.

[mrmayhem]

sweet.. i need access to the back of my radio.. My sirgm1 is here.. and glove is out. No xm module. I can still hook up the sirgm1 according to crutchfield.. but how the heck does the dash come off.

[mrmayhem]

In case anyone needs it..

http://www.elcovaforums.com/forums/s...t=dash+removal

[mrmayhem]

I'm an idiot.. that is for center console..
here is radio

http://www.elcovaforums.com/forums/s...=radio+removal

[mrmayhem]

Well I now have sirius.. my installation was a bitch. I have a 6 disc in dash oem.. that did not have xm pre-installed. First off.. getting the friggn dash out was time consuming.. you have to practically remove the center console (including shifter cover, storage bin, etc), just to slide it back a couple inches. Then pull the dash cover off.. (simple). Plug in the SirGm1 T harness and put the radio back (that was also a bitch).. the T harness kept wedging itself behind the radio. Then I had to find power and hook up the SirGm1 noise filter. Luckily I pulled the passenger side dash panel off and there was some kind of factory plugs sticking out with nothing on them. I tested and viola.. power. Plugged everything in... stuck the antenna out the door.. and Sirius! (the display works fine and says SIRIUS not XM as others had mentioned).
Tomorrow I have to zip tie the unit under the dash.. as the T harness was only about 12 inches long (not long enough to run to spot where the XM modules are normally mounted).
Oh well.. it works for the non sat ready H2's.. as long as you have oem radio. Just a little more work.

[SoonerBoarder]

Originally Posted by kodiakz

Easy actually. Simply remove the cyan housing from the coax connector and plug it ONTO the Sirius tuner. have done many sirius setups like that in gm's. You can even use the larger guage orange and black wires to power the sirius tuner which you then mount right behind the xm tuner or mount it to the heater box.

Are you saying the XM antenna will just unplug from the oem xm tuner and plug right into the sirius one?

[md_sailor]

I could use clarification here as well? I just got my SIR-GM1, Is this plug and play or do I need to swap out the antenna connector? If yes on changing connection, is there any special fitting or splicing technique needed to maintain the antenna integrity? Thanks in advance for the help

[BlueHUMMERH2]

I just put the unit in, with XM already there. I had a heck of a time trying to remove the connections from the factory XM module. I think, after forcing them off, the way to remove the main harness is to pull up on the blue piece on back and push in below on the back when it's pulled up. As for the orange factory XM antenna, push the ridged area in and it should allow you to then pull the factory XM antenna off.

I couldn't figure out where I wanted to place my SIRIUS module. Using the XM antenna, I didn't have much room to play with. So I managed to push it back into the void above the old XM module, somewhat under the dash. Suppose it will be ok there.

As for using the factory antenna, if you push out the white piece in the orange adaptor, and then break the two small pieces of plastic, the antenna will slide out. It is identical to the SIRIUS supplied antenna cord. So my assumption is that it will function correctly. There have been no problems so far, other than maybe the SIRIUS antenna has better reception.

I transferred my subscription from a dash mounted SIRIUS to the SIR-GM1, and I'm very happy with the difference in sound quality, and the loss of the wires everywhere in addition to always having to tune into an FM preset which always seems to collect interference or have to be changed will travelling. Or, sometimes you pick up other people's SIRIUS... haha. But now it's a clean set-up and there are no exposed wires, radio says SIR 1 and SIR 2, and everything seems to work. So I'm happy!

[ASTAR]

So are you using the factory xm antenna with the sirius radio?
If so, how exactly did you make it work?