Satellite Radio
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Laughing Gas
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Satellite Radio
Does any one have any pics of where they put a sirius satellite radio in their 04 f150?
How did it install?
Are the wires in sight or was it easy to hide them?
How did u run the wire for the antenna?
How did it install?
Are the wires in sight or was it easy to hide them?
How did u run the wire for the antenna?
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I bought a kenwood deck and hid the Sirius reciever behind it against firewall. Antenna routed to the third tail lamp and stuck to the roof above the stoplamp. But this is in a SuperDuty though. You could also get a kenwood with a built in Sirius reciever and not have to deal with hiding the unit.
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If you are going to use a Sat receiver, don't use the FM modulator, it defeats the sat. sound quality, it will sound like standard FM. FM radio has a narrower freq response and less dynamics. Get a PIE adapter and use it along with your aux button. this allows a direct connection into the preamp section of your system. Same as hooking up a CD player.
http://www.logjamelectronics.com/piefrd04aux.html
http://www.logjamelectronics.com/piefrd04aux.html
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From: Omaha NE
Do not have pics, but I had it installed at the place that I bought it. It's an XM, but they make a bracket that mounts behind the radio trim. They did a great job. Antenna runs out through the rear brake light. So the radio is to the right of radio,angled towards me next to the passenger vent, they hard wired the power so I have no cig plug showing to.
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Question about removing the factory radio. Does the plastic around the radio just snap out. Im going to install the PIE adapter to run my I pod and Sirius radio and I do not want to brake the plastic. It does not want to snap out towads the bottom.
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If yours is the '04 or newer, yes - it pulls out from the front.
I suggest starting at the bottom near where the cig lighter is.
A quick sharp pull will break the friction tab connectors that hold the bezel in place.
Pay attention to aligning all the tabs back up when you go to put thje bezel back.
The female pieces (left on the dash) will float a little and can get misaligned with the male tabs.
I suggest starting at the bottom near where the cig lighter is.
A quick sharp pull will break the friction tab connectors that hold the bezel in place.
Pay attention to aligning all the tabs back up when you go to put thje bezel back.
The female pieces (left on the dash) will float a little and can get misaligned with the male tabs.
