THE ADVENTURES MK III - Still doing it my way

Discussion in 'Schneider' started by dieselfuelonly, Nov 5, 2014.

  1. TennMan

    TennMan Road Train Member

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    If it's satellite from factory it should be hardwired from factory too
     
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  3. dieselfuelonly

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    I think I'm gonna try to mount it on the area where my grab handle curves above the door on the drivers side. That should keep it further away from trees on the shoulder and almost always have a clear view of the sky. Can't really see anything else blocking it if it's mounted there.

    Depends on your head unit. Most head units I have seen that are "XM-ready" meaning that there is - or you can if it doesn't already have it - a small tuner box from XM that plugs into the back of the head unit, then the antenna plugs into this. I bought an Alpine head unit that came with the XM tuner bundled in a kit. The antenna just plugs into the tuner box. Looks just like the one below.

    http://www.crutchfield.com/p_220SXV...12225&awat=pla&awnw=g&awcr=47439238465&awdv=c
     
  4. ew2108

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    I'm going to have to call kw. I may have to splice into the existing antennae. Because it really sucks unless im going south or west
     
  5. dieselfuelonly

    dieselfuelonly Road Train Member

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    Just pull your dash apart and look. It's probably right there behind the head unit. Pretty much all the XM tuners use a standardized antenna connection unless they are really old. Unplug old one, hook up the new antenna, mount it, done.

    I'm about to mount the antenna MR sent me, I'll take a few pictures. Really easy to install.
     
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  6. ew2108

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    I'll have downtime this week i'll take my allenkeys and pull the radio out. It drives me mad when i lose the football game because im driving north
     
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  7. mickeyrat

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    thats 17' of cable. its possible to buy extensions if needed. in 5 and 10 ' lengths. Look at either of the places I wrote about.
     
  8. dieselfuelonly

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    Thanks. I think it should be plenty. Gonna have to finish running the cable tomorrow but it was raining and I want to run the cable under the truck and didn't want to get soaked lol.
     
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  9. mickeyrat

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    raining here too. pretty good at that.
     
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  10. dieselfuelonly

    dieselfuelonly Road Train Member

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    So what is the deal with Prepass when switching trucks?

    SNI just told me to keep it and put it in my new truck. Figured that was all I had to do.

    I noticed it wasn't beeping going through the closed scales, but with the New Year and yadda yadda figured that maybe they were just closed up, went home, turned everything off including the overhead transponders.

    Looked through my mail and found a letter from them about how my account doesn't have any trucks registered to it. It also said I had 0 devices. I logged on the website and sure enough I have no trucks listed and no transponders linked to my account. Anyone else moved their transponder from 1 truck to the other?
     
  11. sadwar

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    Yes. When I got my new truck.... Just call prepass and give them your new truck number and such. Takes about five minutes.....
     
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