VioletRCDD

Hey all,
This is my first post here (and yes, I did a lot of searching before typing this) so any help would be greatly appreciated. I recently bough a gen 2.5 Sirius tuner for my car from eBay, since the dealer had the gall to quote me $1500 to install Sirius into my 04' 530i. Since I've been doing research on this for a couple months I know that the 2.5 version had more memory and there was supposedly faster, so that was the model I went for.

However, I noticed when I received it that it only had 1 "pink" antenna? lead while other models seemed to have 2 "gray". So after sweating in my trunk for an hour I finally get to the connection part and notice my car has a 2-prong lead. My inclination is that the tuner is therefore not compatible with my car, contrary to what realoem.com and penskeparts.com say. So before I write a negative review to the seller (who was adamant that it did fit) and spend another couple hundred dollars on a 2-prong tuner I wanted to ask if anyone else knew of this and knew of something that could make this work.
I have attached images of the issue below.

Once again, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

NoQuarter

It is just an antenna. Buy a generic sat radio antenna and plug it into the pink connection. If the generic plug has the worn sort of plastic bits preventing it from seating fully just trim it out with a hobby knife.

You can place the new antenna under the rear shelf between the speakers and it should get a good reception. I have my GPS antenna for my radar detector there and it works fine.

VioletRCDD

I'm unsure of what you mean. If my car has a 2-prong SDARS ant. connector housing cable/connector then how is a "generic sat radio antenna" going to help?
Are you saying that I should bypass the internal cable/connector and use a separate antenna?

SD5Series

something like this http://www.myradiostore.com/antennas...s/gm-dual.html

SD5Series

i think this is the one http://www.ebay.com/itm/CT27AA83-DOU...item2a1b70626c

NoQuarter

yes- I was suggesting you could bypass the internal antenna and use a different one - they can be pretty inexpensive. I did a look for adapters and didn't find one but SD5series has found what you need it looks like. Use the adapter for sure.

VioletRCDD

Rock On! Thanks to you all for your help/patience on this.

jcantanixon

I think you can also just use one of the leads from your car to plug into the pink connector on your tuner. I remember reading someone did that successfully before. I'll try searching for the post.

jay8s

One of the leads is Terrestrial, one is Orbital. The terrestrial one picks up the repeaters, the orbital is from the satellite. I just figured out which was the satellite, I think the right one as you are looking from the clip side, and broke the holder and attached that lead to the single input.

jcantanixon

That makes sense. The post that I was thinking of actually did the reverse. They successfully used an older two connector tuner on a newer, one connector car. See below.