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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 10:06 AM
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just screwed around with it for like 20 minutes tonight, should have everything done in a few days. I need to get my car running first lol.
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 10:08 AM
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im hiding the cig lighter somewhere under there too. Just trying to have a clean look as I think putting your sat radio on your dash with wires running everywhere looks kinda tacky
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 10:17 AM
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Looks pretty clean.

I have an Alpine CDA-9855 headunit which supports both Sirius and XM Radio. So I don't have this problem, can't beat that for the cleanest look out there. I have Sirius by the way.
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 11:52 AM
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Would you post up more pics of your interior
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 01:11 PM
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well i have a crapola head unit. My kenwood supports sirius but i didn't want that thing you can just hook up because Im gettin a new Head unit soon. I know that would be the cleaner way to do it but this is the next best alternative. That and I'm not even done with it yet!
TAEnvy I would post up more pics but I'm not done yet!
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 01:18 PM
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Love it!! I might do that with mine Did you have the TSC Button there tho or did you disable it? Anyway I definetly want to copy what ya did .

BTW is that the Starmate 2 you have?
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 01:19 PM
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nice, if i drove my car all year round i'd want something like that for sirius, but since i dont i just keep the sirius in the DD.
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 01:54 PM
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Looks real clean
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Looks good. Neat and clean.
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it's the starmate 4 (the girlfriend got it for me for x-mas ) Not completely done yet tho! And I didn't have traction control so no button, just had that small storage area that was useless lol. thanks for the compliments!
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 03:03 PM
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I wanna do something like this for my starmate, I just don't have the ***** to start hacking away at my console
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 03:25 PM
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send it to me
or buy an extra console and play with that for practice
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 03:34 PM
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looks good, pretty clean. Think it will be a PITA to mess with the dials with the shifter in front of it?
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 04:29 PM
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looks good, howd you get it to stick in there without falling out?
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 04:48 PM
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DirtyBird222: that looks really good. I mounted my GTR replay (same as starmate but black to go with my interior ) in the same location, but mine is not set in like yours. I take mine into work with me so I can listen to it on the sirius boombox I have, so I need to able to remove the unit and the wires easily . I dont have any problems hitting mine when I shift but that looks 100x better thay way you did it.

Also the fm modulator that sirius sells is awesome, it plugs between your sirius unit, and deck. Your car antenna hooks to the modulator so when your sirius is on you have a direct connection between your radio and your sirius. I have a few area's on my drive home where I pick up some static, but not no more.
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 06:55 PM
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thanks guys! and it comes with a remote so it wont be that big of a problem
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 07:18 PM
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Wow that looks really nice in there. Give us pics when you install it in the car!
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 07:42 PM
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i might have to move mine...you can see it in this pic but it was b4 i finished up running the wires and the steering wheels is kinda in the way


i thought about putting it there but i didnt want to cut anything up
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Old Dec 30, 2006 | 01:37 AM
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looks good i personally am with some other guys i would just rather use my aftermarket radio but if you aren't capable it looks good and looks clean
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Old Dec 30, 2006 | 12:41 PM
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i got mine as a gift and didnt want to offend the gift giver.....i honestly dont mind it where it is at now, and i am still to lazy to get around to installing my pioneer radio
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