[Pizza Man]

Long story...

ROC member, typesfanatic, sold me a stock radio from his '06 to replace mine. His was only used for about a month before he replaced it with an aftermarket headunit. I thought it may be easier and cheaper to replace mine rather than repair mine with no working backlights.

I decided to add XM while I was swapping radios. Before the radio arrived I purchased from Crutchfield an XM receiver with the magnetic antenna and an adapter cable to connect to the factory XM Ready headunit. Low and behold, the replacement headunit from typesfanatic is not XM "Ready", but an XM headunit.

Now my question for '06 owners with factory XM. Does the factory XM headunit have XM built into it or is there an XM receiver located elsewhere in the truck?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Pizza Man]

PM,

I think this post will answer your question.

Good luck!

Thank you, sir. Looks like I may have jumped the gun on the Crutchfield purchase. :act018:

 

[Pizza Man]

The Unit I purchased came out of a RTL with a moonroof, no nav. As near as I can tell, there is no way I can interface the XM receiver I purchased from Crutchfield to the headunit I just purchased from typesfanatic. I would be able to do it with my original factory head unit, however.

At this point, it would be easier to swap out my factory unit with an aftermarket headunit. Thanks for your help, dnick.

 

[Pizza Man]

This is the headunit I just purchased, front and rear. The photo carsmak posted is the same as my original. The differences:

In carsmak's photo the XM Ready symbol is to the right of the display. On my newly purchased headunit photo there is no "Ready" symbol. The rear view shows a white connector, the third from left, with the 14 pins Dnick mentions. It's not labeled, so I don't know if that's the XM Input or not.

For the price involved in purchasing the Honda Kit, I'd rather go the aftermarket Headunit route. There's a sweet Kenwood unit that has bluetooth, HD Radio and a USB input built in and is XM Ready and it will interface smoothly with the XM receiver I already have. The Kenwood Excelon DPX791BH is only $199.

Now, does anyone want a factory headunit .... Cheap? :act010: It came out of a white RTL and the color of the radio seems to be a shade different than my original.

 

[Pizza Man]

Once you get a HU with Bluetooth, Pandora might meet you music needs unless you want XM for the sports? If you go the XM radio route Be sure to review the XM thread on how to get the discount.

Thanks, Heli ATP. I don't use a smartphone. The Bluetooth is only for hands-free phone use. I'm more likely to use the XM for music, sports news and their talk stations. My wife has XM in her car and I like not losing stations on road trips. I've been getting the XM discounted rates (thanks to the ROC) since 2008, when we bought her car.

 

[Pizza Man]

Interesting.......

And in my case, frustrating! In my situation, if my backlighting didn't fail, I would have been able to simply install the XM Receiver, Antenna and the appropriate adapter connector to plug in the back of the original factory radio and be done with it. What screwed me up, apparently, was swapping my radio out for a radio that came out of a RTL with the factory XM already installed. Therefore, the back of the radio must have an XM connector different than my original. My original radio has a front panel pushbutton for XM/Aux. The replacement radio has only an XM pushbutton.

I also understand since the Sirius/XM merger the connectors have become standardized.

 

[Pizza Man]

That's right folks! I still have the '06 sales brochure. :act035:

I just knew you would, Dan!