Later I looked at my install again and realize that by doing so I was switching the antenna input and output of my Kenwood KOS A200. When I used those I got terrible quality, a lot of noise. One was mal to mal and the other one female to female. More important I run into some issue when using the MTRL2MCX connector I had found on circuit city I believe. To my experience it doesn't matter which one. So the point is that you only need to disconnect one set and plug to that one. I will eventually come up with something as I would like to get the AM back. I haven't heard anyone that was able to do differently. None the less once you will have used one of the two connections you will loose AM. It probably has to do with the resistance specification needed for AM and FM. So for FM purposes it doesn't matter very much witch one you are using? However both wires are required for AM. I believe that the FM requires only one cable line at a time. Let me say first that you are on the right track. The hatrack is easy enough to remove, but the plastic stuff is a pain. If I were to do it again, I would run longer wires for the 9v->MTRLA and the return of it and wrap them once up in the top, then run them down to the top of the hatdeck like where the other volvo models have the AFM at, just so I wouldn't have to tear up the molding every time I want to mess around with it. The rest is hidden under the steeringwheel and in the siding of the left side of the car. Right now all you see are the wires from the back of the cradle go into the siding of the car, and then a 12v power connector that comes out of the plastic under the steeringwheel. The power is using the 12v outlet in the front console, as eventually I'll get creative with it and hard wire it, but for now I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with the radio I installed (it was free from someone with a few months of service left on it) and if I decide to go with a better/newer/nicer radio, I might actually go and hard wire that one in and make it nice with no wires to be seen anywhere. The antenna is temporarily mounted in the center of the dash against the front of the windshield with double sided tape, hidden behind my radar detector, so it doesn't bother me, and the wire was pushed down into the front crevice with a plastic spoon end. I ran the satellite FMmodulator cable down the side of the car underneath all of the pull-up plastic molding, up the side, and to the left of the driver side, and I've got the radio itself hooked up hanging from a suction cup from the windshield and all the wires go there, but are hidden under the plastic siding there. I kept the 9v->Mtrla->FMMOD->mtrla-> 9v all up in the plastic housing in the rear area. I'm still interested in checking out what the AFM has to offer me, but now that I've got all the junk wired up in my back passenger area, I'll probably leave it.īTW I ended up just using the stock Sirius FM modulation hookup.
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