I installed the Sirius kit today in my FX. Took 4 hours taking my time. Works fine. I have a few operating questions/ comments and will post in another thread.
Permission to gripe please....
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Engineering wise, the satellite prewire had to be a very distant afterthought. If Nissan contracted with Clarion, they must have asked for the most convoluted design possible. There should have been a slide in, docking arrangement for the tuner unit in the cargo area. Plug and play. Same for an antenna module.
Instead, they make you tear apart the entire cargo area in order to plug in the tuner box. Although there is a prewired harness, the cable is too short and the plug is different than the tuner's receptacle - so you have to use a special jumper cable. The tuner has no mounting points so they have you make a 3 layer sandwich of velcro strips to mount it behind the center arm rest of the rear seat. Totally shabby. The antenna is supposed to be mounted into one of the roof rails which would make it asymmetric and it would look awful. I decided to mount the antenna midline at the rear, but it is a very tight fit because the cargo door articulates within a couple of millimeters or the rear roofline at the center point. This makes installing the tail/coax leads of the antenna very difficult and subject to rubbing. So I guess that is why they came up with the absurd roof rail scheme.
All in all - not a triumph for Nissan. I pity the folks at the port of entry who have to do these installs for "factory" satellite.
For those contemplating installing the satellite kit, be sure to familiarize yourself with the instructions first - see http://secure.grubbs.com/satfxinstall.pdf
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Permission to gripe please....
<gripe>
Engineering wise, the satellite prewire had to be a very distant afterthought. If Nissan contracted with Clarion, they must have asked for the most convoluted design possible. There should have been a slide in, docking arrangement for the tuner unit in the cargo area. Plug and play. Same for an antenna module.
Instead, they make you tear apart the entire cargo area in order to plug in the tuner box. Although there is a prewired harness, the cable is too short and the plug is different than the tuner's receptacle - so you have to use a special jumper cable. The tuner has no mounting points so they have you make a 3 layer sandwich of velcro strips to mount it behind the center arm rest of the rear seat. Totally shabby. The antenna is supposed to be mounted into one of the roof rails which would make it asymmetric and it would look awful. I decided to mount the antenna midline at the rear, but it is a very tight fit because the cargo door articulates within a couple of millimeters or the rear roofline at the center point. This makes installing the tail/coax leads of the antenna very difficult and subject to rubbing. So I guess that is why they came up with the absurd roof rail scheme.
All in all - not a triumph for Nissan. I pity the folks at the port of entry who have to do these installs for "factory" satellite.
For those contemplating installing the satellite kit, be sure to familiarize yourself with the instructions first - see http://secure.grubbs.com/satfxinstall.pdf
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