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i bought the axxess direct connect for my ipod. if the car has factory XM, you have to install a relay to kill the power to the XM tuner when you want to use the ipod adapter. i didn't want to bother with the relay, and i don't like XM anyway, so they said if i simply unplugged the XM tuner that would work fine. I found the fuse in the trunk for the XM, and i unplugged it. they were right, it worked great without the relay. the only problem was that the remote keyless entry is on the same fuse, so now i'm back to trying to find the XM tuner to unplug it. I had the bottom of the dash all removed, and i couldn't find the tuner. anyone have any ideas on exactly where it is, or what it looks like?
I believe that the plug you pull out from the back of your stereo and replace with the Axxess plug is for XM. If you leave that plug hanging, instead of plugging it into the Axxess cable, your XM should be disabled.
I believe that the plug you pull out from the back of your stereo and replace with the Axxess plug is for XM. If you leave that plug hanging, instead of plugging it into the Axxess cable, your XM should be disabled.
Hope that makes sense...
Are we sure that harness is only XM data though? I can't imagine any GM design being THAT simplified...
Yea, I tried that before, and it didn't work. but... that was also when my axxess unit wasn't working right either. I'll have to give that another shot. If i remember right, whenever i left that plug undone, everything else worked just fine. I'll try it tomorrow, and see.
I believe that plug on the back of the stereo is for the XM. but not the data. The axxess unit has to tap into the GM Lan wire on the other harness, and that's where the data comes from. So as long as the XM tuner is still powered up, it's data is still coming in on the GM Lan. When i had the plug unplugged, there was no sound from the XM, only data.
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