DonnieBrasco
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I'm having an odd issue I'm hoping someone can help me with. Forgive me if this gets lengthy, but I want to give full disclosure here in hopes someone can help me find an answer.
I've got a 2003 Yukon. Years and years ago I got an iPod input installed using the USA SPEC unit. Similar to this one:
Used it for years no problem. It had an iPod plug that went to the iPod and charged it and I could operate it through the factory radio. Now I have an iPhone and wanted it to be just an aux in. No problem. I pulled it out and basically unplugged the cord with the iPod input and it has RCA jacks to wire in a standard aux in. So I did that and changed the jumpers to what it needed to be. Everything worked great.
The unit is wired in through the XM channel. I don't have the XM tuner box under the glove box. But Best Buy installed the unit years ago and somehow installed it to the XM channel. So when I want to access the aux I just hit the FM band button until it gets to XM 1 or XM 2.
Everything worked fine for months until one day the screen said XM Error and all of a sudden I had no aux. When I would hit the band button it would just cycle through FM and AM like XM wasn't even there.
I opened up my dash and basically didn't do anything except make sure everything was connected nice and snug and put the radio back in and it worked fine. Then a few weeks later it happens again. Basically it keeps happening and it's annoying as crap. I don't understand what keeps messing it up. I guess I could move the unit from behind the radio to somewhere more easily accessible like under the driver's seat or the glove box. But that would require more wires and all that jazz. Which I can definitely do, I just need to figure out the best way.
Hopefully I can get around to pulling it out this weekend and getting some pictures of exactly just how it is wired in because it looks all weird wired back there but it obviously works. I just want it to work consistently. The absolute ONLY thing I listen to on FM radio is sports talk. Sometimes I like to listen to my music from my phone. Hoping someone can help me come up with a workable solution. Thanks.
I've got a 2003 Yukon. Years and years ago I got an iPod input installed using the USA SPEC unit. Similar to this one:
Used it for years no problem. It had an iPod plug that went to the iPod and charged it and I could operate it through the factory radio. Now I have an iPhone and wanted it to be just an aux in. No problem. I pulled it out and basically unplugged the cord with the iPod input and it has RCA jacks to wire in a standard aux in. So I did that and changed the jumpers to what it needed to be. Everything worked great.
The unit is wired in through the XM channel. I don't have the XM tuner box under the glove box. But Best Buy installed the unit years ago and somehow installed it to the XM channel. So when I want to access the aux I just hit the FM band button until it gets to XM 1 or XM 2.
Everything worked fine for months until one day the screen said XM Error and all of a sudden I had no aux. When I would hit the band button it would just cycle through FM and AM like XM wasn't even there.
I opened up my dash and basically didn't do anything except make sure everything was connected nice and snug and put the radio back in and it worked fine. Then a few weeks later it happens again. Basically it keeps happening and it's annoying as crap. I don't understand what keeps messing it up. I guess I could move the unit from behind the radio to somewhere more easily accessible like under the driver's seat or the glove box. But that would require more wires and all that jazz. Which I can definitely do, I just need to figure out the best way.
Hopefully I can get around to pulling it out this weekend and getting some pictures of exactly just how it is wired in because it looks all weird wired back there but it obviously works. I just want it to work consistently. The absolute ONLY thing I listen to on FM radio is sports talk. Sometimes I like to listen to my music from my phone. Hoping someone can help me come up with a workable solution. Thanks.
