question about sat radio, the head unit is sat ready, but dont have the actual satillite module but can get one, is the car prewired for it, i know where it is supposed to go i just havnt taken that side apart to look, its located behind right rear panel. im currently using a external sat receiver just want to get rid of the clutter. any help is greatly appreciated, oh by the way i have a HHR tech service manual posted in the general forum with rapidshare links, there is like 5 links.

 

i don't know the answers to those sat radio questions.....also sorry i'm jacking this thread , but at least i'm bumping it ....i was searching for an answer to anouther xm radio ?.....when you call to activate a xm account , how do they enable your unit ? is it by your vin #? or is there some other info one would need to give ?.....oh , i would assume that some radios are are plug and play for adding the xm module , but i am really not sure.

 

You have to give them the unit ID# it will come up on the screen when you scrool through

 

turn to station 0 or 1 on XM and it reads out the ID. I believe that station also tells you what to do to activate it.

 

Hmmm..I have the CAT button, but I guess the actual Module isn't installed? When I hit the CAT button it just says XM feature.

 

Could be that it's just not activated. That's the message I get when hitting the CAT button on my XM ready unit.

 

Right, my understanding is you have an XM ready unit..without the module...but the stereo is set up to control it, and then you have XM units with the actual module factory installed.

I don't think all of the stereos are XM ready(i.e. don't have the CAT button) so in that case you would have to use a transceiver since it isn't supported natively. *I think*

But the reason I brought it up was someone said to go to a certain station or something to get your ID....well I can't do that because when I push the CAT button, it just says XM feature...it doesn't do anything else...so I don't know how to get my ID.