New Sirus Satellite Radio options.

Cool! That did the trick. Now the song title scrolls, but not the artist. So it still says "Howard Stern Sho", but the rest of it scrolls.

Thanks for the tip!

 

I have been following this thread for a few weeks now. I really appreciate the comments especially knowing that this mod will work with the base model radio. I need to order the TOY-SIR and get it installed.

Thanks for all the advice.

Mitch

 

I found the scrolling was a bit choppy?

 

Can you please provide a little more detail on this antenna installation location.

I've got my sirius parts on order from tss and they will be here shortly.
I'm considering where to put the antenna.

 

I was looking at the vent...how do I remove it?
Do I need the tool or???

 

It's pretty easy to remove and I was being really careful. You just need to work your fingers at the top and bottom...slowly kinda prying it up. I wouldn't use a hard edged tool or anything like that since it comes pretty easy. The best tool that I can recommend is patience.

 

When will people learn not to have Stealerships do audio installations. At $720 for the unit and install, yes you got ripped off big time!

 

here's some pic's for the install of sirius antenna into spoiler.
The idea is to hide the antenna inside the spoiler, behind the center brake light. Since the spoiler is plastic it won't interfere with signal reception.





Remove brake light by simply removing the two screws



After you remove the light, you will see where the stock hole is for the brake light wire. Cut a small hole, just to left of that one, in the center of the spoiler, that you can fit the antenna into. The antenna must be a small or micro satellite antenna. The one that came with the SC-C1 worked fine.

The tools I used to make hole were a drill, dremel with diamond cutting bit and a hobby knife. I used a sharpee to draw a proper sized retangle on the surface, the drill to get a starter hole, and dremel to do cut-out, and hobby knife to clean it up.





Remove all trim panels inside hatch interior. They all pull off, but the large hatch panel is tough to get started and a panel removal tool might make it easier to get the snaps to pop loose. If snaps get left in hatch frame, after panel is detached, remove them and fit them back onto interior panel. Everything else pulls off easily, but the side columns leave there clips in the hatch and I suggest you pull them out and reattach the clips to the column trim panels before re-installing panels. Otherwise you may push the clips through their holes to be lost into hatch frame. They can be retrieved, but it wouldn't be easy.





Fish antenna wire through the cut hole to the interior of hatch and around hatch frame to the hole on left where rear washer tube is , through the left boot, and into interior headliner of car, so that the wire can be routed down passenger side door frame lower trim to front of car where tuner will be.

I used a zip-tie to fish from one side of spoiler to other





Now route wire around hatch frame, taping it to hold wire secure, to botton where you'll fish it through the flexible boot that leads inside the car.......
it's easier if you pull the rubber boot off the plastic frame.
(There that zip tie again)






At this point the headliner must be dropped a little to route wire in interior. Pop the three snaps holding headliner in the rear




When you are ready to re-attach rubber boot it is easier to pop plastic frame ovals from hatch with a screwdriver, wrap boot back around them, and then snap back into place. Wrapping the rubber boot with then in place is almost impossible.










Now it's time to route the antenna wire inside headline, over side curtain airbag, and down passenger side door frame. None of the interior panels need be remove, just the rubber weather molding at top of hatch and corner/back of passenger door. You can just tuck the wire around and behind the trim panels.

From hatch looking toward door, and over side curtain airbag



From door corner looking back





Wire being rounted under passenger side lower trim



And finally to from right kick panel, where it's within easy reach of glove box area, where satellite tuner will reside.



Sirius Antenna supported from below and resting in place inside spoiler



And hole sealed up with duct tape



And light back in place, job done





Hope this helps anyone who's considering hiding a satellite antenna

 

wow! that looks great. thanks for taking the time to provide such detailed instructions.

I'm still debating where to put mine...
I'm considering just putting the antenna on the front dash for awhile till I get up the courage to start pulling down panels/etc.
At some point installing a shark fin antenna and routing the sat.antenna thru the roof hole will probably be what I do.

 

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I installed my TOY-SC1 package last night.

Couple of install hints/notes:

* To remove the vent panel open the CD storage tray and pull from both sides with your finger tips of your left hand while pulling from the bottom of the panel with your right hand.

* I had trouble getting the screw/bolt removed that holds the vent wiring harness in place, you need a good long screwdriver, as a short one doesn't allow for enough leverage to loosen it. I didn't have a long screwdriver, so ended up using a vice grip on the handle of a shorter screwdriver to get the leverage I needed.

* The wire connecting the sirius tuner to the radio doesn't click/snap in easily - I actually never heard it click, but it is securely mounted.

* It was late, so I mounted the antenna on the front dash (passenger side as far forward as possible) and I noticed some drop-outs this morning while driving. I will be relocating the antenna to the spoiler per above or to the roof near the regular radio antenna.

* I set the unit dip switches to 16 characters and scroll on. I have a 2008 package 5 (with navi/jbl) and the display is great, it scrolls after a few seconds in text mode to show the full title and artist info.

Important Question for those with the TOY-SC1:

* How do your steering wheel controls work? My up/down audio controls just change the Sirius channel up or down and do not go to the next/previous pre-set as I expected and had in other vehicles. I would strongly prefer the steering wheel controls just cycle through pre-sets, is there any way to change this?

 

Congrats on your install. It seems the the steering wheel controls should work two different ways.....if you just push the up/down button briefly VS. pushing and holding button. Just like the radio, pushing changes to next preset, pushing and holding seeks next station, or in CD mode they choose track buy pushing and disk by holding.

 

This doesn't seem to work for me on Sirius. It works as you describe on CD, and AM/FM.

 

So you installed the antenna in front of the 3rd brake light right?
It looks like you used foam to support it?

How has your reception been now that you have been driving it for a bit?

Nice clean install.

Steve

 

I recently installed the SCC1 tuner and the TOY SC1 in my 2008 Prius and it is not working. I do not get the SAT option on my display. I have tried cycling the power on and off and disconnecting and reconnecting the battery without success. I am assuming that once the cable from the TOY SC1 is plugged into the radio I should get the SAT display. I am assuming that because when I plug a cable in to the AUX connector it shows up on the diaplay. Anyway everything appears to be connected properly and I don't get any sign that it is working. I am also assuming the the AM setting should cycle to SAT although I've tried them all. Does the TOY SC1 cable plug in to the middle input on the back of the radio? Any ideas? I have the stock radio and no NAV. Thanks.

 

I have a package 5 (nav) so my experience is slightly different, but the plug was on the middle-left (when looking at back of radio) and it really is the only space that would fit the plug from the SC1. Sounds like you might have a defective SC1, as yes it should be detected and accessed by pressing the AM/SAT button.

 

did you also plug the sc-c1 into the toy-sc1? and turn on the radio?

 

I'm using one on my car now instead of the dealer-sold unit.

It's really nice to have the full titles now. However, as jtrain73 noted, the buttons on the steering wheel go one station up or down, rather than one preset up or down. The factory unit does presets.

I haven't had a chance to drive the Superstition Freeway in Mesa, AZ, which is where I normally get dropouts. It's too far from the Phoenix repeater, and it has an overpass every half mile which caused a dropout with the original unit. I hope that the newer unit uses Sirius' 4-second-delayed signal to provide "overpass protection".

 

That stinks, How simple would it have been to maintain the steering wheel controls as preset seek, and channel seek if held. I consider that a design flaw that should have been caught in the testing stage.

 

I installed my sirius radio last night.
it took about an hour and a half.
getting the vent off was no problem, the suggestion above about gripping it between the cd holder and the open glove box made it easy.
having not so small hands made the whole process a little more difficult that it could have been.
the first obstacle was the large wire harness. even after unscrewing it, I could never find a place to really get it out of the way to allow my hand to easily get behind the radio. (and my hand and wrists have the marks to prove it!)
once i was finally able to get my hand the the plug behind the radio, inserting the plug was no problem.
the problem came with the fact that the plug did not want to lock into place. it kept slipping out. i am still not convinced it's going to stay in place. I tried to somewhat secure it using a wire tie, but I don't know.
I wish the plug had a true locking clip. (it has some sort of clip, but it doesn't lock with this radio plug insert)

so...i kept the vent off for today and i'm gonna road test it and see if the plug stays inserted.
does anyone have any thoughts about this? what can be done to seat the plug more securely?

for now the antenna is on the dash. when i get my shark fin antenna, i'll probably put the sirius antenna on the roof and route thru the antenna hole. hopefully the dash location will be ok for the meantime.