I am Chris Duke and this is Motorz. In a previous episode of Motorz, we showed you how to install an Alpine Electronics head unit with all the available accessories now. One of those accessories was the Sirius XM Satellite Receiver and Vehicle Kit, but there was so much to install on that video, we really kind of glanced over all the details.
Up till now in Motorz, we've been all trucks and SUVs, but now we're also going to start working on some muscle cars. So today we're going to show you how to install the Sirius Satellite Receiver and Vehicle Kit on our 2008 Ford Mustang GT.
Now our Mustang here has got a Stock AM/FM radio, but we don't like FM, because it sounds horrible. It's full of ads. It's got a limited range and what's with the giganto Antenna Ford, what were you thinking? So we're going to solve this problem by installing a Stratus Receiver from Sirius XM, which is going to give us nationwide satellite radio, no ads and it's uncensored for the most part.
Now you can buy it online, or you can get it at any consumer electronic store. There is a monthly service that ranges anywhere from $7 to $13 per month. Now you can get a professional to install, but it's so easy to install, I recommend you do it, and we're going to show you how? But first, let's take a look at the vehicle installation kit, see what's involved.
Now there's absolutely no tools required for this installation which is great, but we do recommend that you get some of these Trim Panel Removal Tools which you may need for your installation. There is a link at our website at www.motorz.tv. Now the receiver, this is the stratus, looks like this and it's pretty thin. You can put it just about anywhere inside your vehicle. And there is the magnetic antenna and optional FM antenna, and then the docking station here, which has the inputs and the outputs.
And finally, there is a Cigarette Lighter Adapter right here which gives power to the unit. Now you're also going to need to get this auxiliary cable here, which is going to allow the signal to go from the Docking Station to your head unit. Now you could pick these up online, there's a link at our website as well.
Now finally we recommend you keep the box, and the reason is, is because it's got this SID number on here, and you're going to need this for activation later. Now there is a couple of different mounting locations on this Mustang, we could mount it right up here by the A pillar but we're probably going to put some gauges up here at some point in the future, so we don't want to put it there. We could also mount it right here in the center of the dash or down here by the radio, but in all three locations we don't want to do that, because we're going to have to drill into the dash, which we don't want to do. And you're going to have about three cables that are coming out of this thing. You're going to have to route those all over the place. But as it turns out the auxiliary input in this Mustang is right here in the middle of the Central Console, so that's where this bad boy is going to go.
Now I figured out a good location for the receiver here in the Center Console, it's time to mount the Sirius Satellite Antenna. Now this thing is magnetic and you can put it just about anywhere, but where Sirius recommends you do it, because up here on the roof, about three inches in from where the metal starts right in the center.
Now this wire is going to go along the top of the window here, down the side into the trunk, through the back seats and up to the Center Console, I'm going to show you how to do that next. And here's a Motorz tip, you want to measure your exact center of your roof, then mark it with a piece of tape. Now Sirius applies this adapter, that's got some adhesive on the back, so you want to peel that off. Now this is three inches long, so it kind of takes the guess work kind of figuring out, three inches in from where the metal starts. Now take that and just push it down carefully and press on that, so the adhesive has time to stick to your roof, and route the wire along the top of the window, around the corner, and the side of the window, and into the trunk.
Now that the antenna wire is down alongside the window, we got to put it in the trunk now, so lift up the trunk. What we're going to do is we're going to fish it in here underneath this molding, but before we do that, there is some sharp metal right here. So grab a piece of electrical tape where that wire is going to go over, put a piece of tape there, just so it doesn't rub and prevent a problem, and pull that wire in, and position it over your tape. Give it a little bit of slack back here. I'm going to push that molding back down on top of it, just like that.
Now it's inside your trunk, so now we can route it up to the back seats. Now with all the wire in the trunk, you want to go back down here and pull this carpet back on the side as well as on the bottom, where we're going to route this wire, it is through here, and up just behind that seatbelt right there. And you want to leave some slack here for where it's going to go underneath the carpet. Route this behind the seatbelt just like this.
We have got the wire coming out from behind the seatbelt here, so we want to tuck this real good behind the side of seat, down along the front of the seat, tucking it in there as much as we can over to the Center Console, just like that, and open up the Center Console. I'm going to wrap this wire up along the side of it. It's like all the restless cables inside, and that's where our receiver is going to go. That's where we're also going to get power for the receivers inside there.
Now for more professional installation, you want to remove the entire Center Console itself, and get this underneath the carpet and pop it up inside, but just for ease of installation, this is not that big of a deal. Now welcome to the Center Console, right here, we've got our Line Input, that's for our audio signal, and this is 12 Watt power, that's where we're going to get our power from. Now, I have already got our antenna wire right here, so let's hook that up first to the receiver. It's going to go right here.
And next we want to do our audio signal, so we've got our cable here, we're going to plug that in there. I'm going to take the other end, and plug it in down here. Now for our power, we've got our Cigarette Lighter Adapter right here, so we're going to plug right here, and then right into there. Now at this point, we've got everything plugged in the way it is supposed to be, but we've got it activated, so take your SID number, and give Sirius a call, so that you can activate it, and then we'll check it out.
Now you can go online to their website, and activate your new receiver or you can give them a call, which is what we did. Now all you going to need to give him is your SID number, and if you haven't setup your payment plan yet, you have to do that at that time. Now, in order for this to work, we had to pull our Mustang out of the shop a little bit here, because the antenna that's on the roof needs to have a direct line of sight with the satellite up in the sky.
So now that that's done, let's turn it on, and see what happens here. And now there you have it, looks like everything is working just fine, and it sounds great. The Sirius XM Satellite Receiver Kit is just mindless to install. Now while your application may differ from our Mustang here, all the parts of the kit are exactly the same. So for more tips, head on over to www.sirius.com/install, they've got a lot more information at their own website. That does it for this episode of Motorz. For more of our videos, head on over to www.motorz.tv, and please be sure to subscribe to our podcast on Apple iTunes and also Tether.
Check this out. I am Chris Duke and this is stupid. Hey, baby and please be sure to subscribe -- why so serious? Yeah. This is going well. Oh! Can I do it well? I am too big for this trunk. Okay, this is working. Oh! Yeah, I am feeling it. It's still glowing in the dark, that's the coolest thing. It's got this little dude, it's got an arrow pointing out of the trunk, and the dude running. Oh! Now it's far easier getting out than in, let me tell you that much. So serious -- Bye crew world. Zuch!
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