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Sirius Install

From 2000 Ford Crown Victoria “spruce goose”, documented by sprucegoose.

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2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Face removed from stock radio, dremeled out and some face buttons glued back on. The eject button fell off temporarily. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Used some felt to protect the Pioneer's face when in position. The green felt simulates the green of the removed LCD 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - The faux stock faceplate in position. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - The faux stock faceplate removed. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Peering in the window with the stock faceplate on. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Listening to satellite radio. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - It's always a good idea to disconnect the negative cable to the battery to prevent shorts and such when working with the car's electrial sy… 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Pulled (3) of these plastic pins from the panel beneath the glovebox. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Removing this plastic pin holding the carpet aids in removing that lower panel. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Carpet is pulled back to aid in removing the lower plastic panel. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - You'll want to squeeze the sides on this plastic pin for the lower panel to drop. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Twist the socket to remove the socket with the bulb. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Here's the panel dropped with just the connector to the auxillary 12v plug still attached. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Unplug the connector to the auxillary 12v plug. This is what I will use to splice the Sirius tuner into for its power harness. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - I believe there were (2) of these 6mm bolts to remove the glovebox 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Glovebox is easily removed by pushing the sides of the glovebox for these tabs to clear. Oh yeah, I had to remove the Traction control butt… 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - I tried and tried to find a good mounting spot for the Sirius Tuner behind the glovebox here but to no avail. I decided to mount it directl… 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Drilled a hole in the back for the IP-bus connector to the radio and the power harness for the tuner. Applied some peel n seal to act as a… 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Tuner sitting nicely in the back of the glovebox. Antenna runs out the right side. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Tuner in the glovebox with the Goose's Owner's Manual. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Splice/sodder the Sirius tuner's power harness in with the Auxillary 12V plug. Wrapped it up in some electrical tape afterward. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Sirius Antenna cable runs up along side the dash to the top of the dash. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Pop up the upper dash to run the cable under. 2000 Ford Crown Victoria - Attached the Sirius antenna magnet to the middle of the dash. This will be my first testing area. If there are no dropouts, it'll stay, oth…