So tonight I finally got my cable, was home and had time to install it. For those of you who aren't aware, adding an Aux-in on a XM equipped car is as easy as getting a cable and tapping into the appropriate wires in the XM module in the trunk. lewis26 did a great write-up, but never took any pics, so I solved that.
lewis26 wrote:
HERES HOW TO GET XM AND IPOD IN YOUR CAR.
Now hawkjet and I had figured out a solution to keep both XM and an aux input on the old forum. Ill try to explain it here, and then post some pics later.
First thing you'll need is a headphone extension cable, about a 25ft. I got a panel mount one online, so that i could make it look almost factory. You'll need to remove interior pieces from where you plan to mount the jack, along with the back seat and trunk carpet on the left side.
Basically you'll need to run the cable from your mounting location (mine is in the ashtray), all the way through the car to the trunk XM module. This ran through the dash, along the floorboards, under the back seat, etc. Then when you get the end of the cable near the XM box, cut it off.
You'll then wire the cable in parallel with 3 wires from the XM stuff. The red wire goes to the Brown/white wire. The white wire goes to the green/white wire. The silver braided wire goes to the black/white common audio wire. This is all i had to do. I put the car back together and tested it out.
How it works:
So I turn my car on, and put it on XM radio. It finds a channel, and starts to play. Then when i plug in my ipod, for some reason the car senses the impedance change or something, because it lowers the volume of the XM channel, but you can still here it during quiet parts of your song. So you need to go to XM channel 0, the radio ID channel. So what i do is I have the number 6 preset to channel 1, and then seek down from there. And then if you wanna listen to normal XM, just unplug the ipod, and the Xm goes to normal volume.
It works like a dream. Beautiful quality, and sounds like a CD. Ill try to post a pic or 2 of the jack, but everything else is buried deep in the car. Please feel free to ask any questions.
So I got a 25' cable from
http://www.datapro.net/products/stereo- ... cable.html . It cost $50, but still way cheaper than a HU or other setup that would probably suck worse.
Here are the few pics I have of my install. I removed the bezel around the gauges, HU, etc, the knee bolster, the b-pillar trim, the kick panels and the backseat in order to snake it through. This would've been much better to do when my interior is out, but this way wasn't terrible.
So here are my pics and my video:
Before
Tie the cable around the shifter so you don't have to start over, lol
Pull it all the way through to make sure it's not dangling and doesn't get caught
After splicing, soldering and taping
Be sure to zip-tie the cable to the wire loom
All you see at the end when using a panel mount port, I'll grab a pic that doesn't suck in the morning. (Cable needs appx 3/8" hole, don't go too big, you can always step up another drill bit size, but it's hard to make a hole smaller
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How it works at the end (Ignore my idiocy as videographer, lol):
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