ok a lil guidance is needed...I'm running a wire from the back right roof in front of the tailgate and want to get up to the front passenger area either under the seat of behind the dash...any ideas on where to run the wire? I've so far come in the tail gate and then have run it under the "hidden cargo area door" to the right of the basket and then through the back seat but I'm lost as to how to get it up to the front area and still look clean...

suggestions?

also the back seat I pulled it up with a little pressure and it came up and since then it is very easy to come up...any suggestions did I mess it up?

~wC

 

I am actually oging to install my sirius antenna soon. What I planned on doing was running the wire down the right side of the car under the door sils. Pull the plastic pieces up and you can fit the wire under there.

 

how hard do I have to pull on those pieces?

~wC

 

Not hard at all. They just pop off. Just kind of pull out and up. They are only held on by like 2 clips. You will see other wires that are run underneath there as well.

 

Yeah, that's where all the wires run, along with the tube for the rear window dribbler.

Plenty of room for extra wires.

The Toyota techinfo web site has a detailed set of instructions on how to install the toyota version of XM, right down to exactly where the wires run.

George

 

yeah I saw I ran it all this morning...just can't get my head unit to recoginize the XM unit...might be I didn't have it grounded properly...and then I ran out of time before I had to go to work...



~wC

 

still not working yet


thats the antenna


Back seat with the sill removed...


Front Seat with sill removed...


Front Seat with sill on...



Couple Pics of the XM tuner unit...under front passenger seat it's out of sight unless you look under it...



the head unit...

~wC

 

I found out a little trick to mount your micro XM ant in the center. I took the ant apart ( work at a stereo shop , if it breaks go get a new on off the shelf ). You can then slide the thin pieces up through the top of the hatch. Now put the ant back together. Looks much better.

 

go to channel 000 if that doesn't work try hitting the resset button on both the radio, and the tuner box

 

yeah no I know that oneslowxa and tried the reset button too...the issue is that I'm not geting anything on the head unit...it's as if the tuner box isn't even there...I wasn't able to do anything with it yesterday but I'm gonna go to a friends house tonight and he's gonna take a look at it...see if there is anything stupid I missed...


~wC

 

try holding the src button, to turn the radio off, then press and hold either func or audio, a menu should come up, look for settings that you might be able to turn on...
did you try hitting reset on the Tuner as well as the radio?

 

ok figured it out...I didn't have a good ground...so I remedied that problem this morning and I have my XM back! after a three month absense in my car....

I just thought I'd post a couple pics of the ground...I also cleaned up the install a lil running the wires under the carpet and such...





~wC