MY22 Adding SiriusXM

[XLT22]

Much easier to to just run the factory antenna and not back up the dash.

Sponsored

 

[Texas2022XLT]

Much easier to to just run the factory antenna and not back up the dash.

So if you install the factory antenna, can you extend the blue over to the driver side?
Also thought it was mentioned swapping out the driver side with the one from the passenger side when you remove it. What would be left unplugged on the driver side then if you did either?

 

[XLT22]

So if you install the factory antenna, can you extend the blue over to the driver side?
Also thought it was mentioned swapping out the driver side with the one from the passenger side when you remove it. What would be left unplugged on the driver side then if you did either?

There’s no need to do that. Either leave the glue GPS unhooked and have a coarse cellular location in FordPass, add a small splitter at the antenna or add a navigation APIM.

 

[Wallyo]

Much easier to to just run the factory antenna and not back up the dash.

Not thinking of having it on the dash but rather sandwiched between the halves of the center trim.

So far i am impressed with its reception., in my 04 Sierra there are 2 areas on I84 where XM went dead, could always count on it. One was the Airport the other the Sheriff's Offfice/County Jail/ Dispatch for the whole county (all law enforcement). Drove past the later twice tonight no issues at all. On wranglers it is placed on the center roll bar and rests under the hard top.

I will give it a try if it gets annoyingly bad, I have no issue going factory. took 2minutes to install, if I drill a hole, it will add another 3.

Main reason for trying this way was to be sure the XM unit worked.

 

[Wallyo]

WARNING!!

I did not mention this when I said I was receiving XM, I should of stated. I was getting the Preview channel loud and clear!

Hit a major roadblock that I am trying to work around seems the Radio has not been registered by Ford with Sirius XM!! Tried subscribing online it did not like the radio ID Code. Just called now and tried to set it up over the phone the XM rep could not find it in the system!

Another hurdle? Doubt Ford will be much help.

I even was able to refresh the signal. If anyone has any ideas jump in.

Update:

Called back to XM and asked to speak to tech support, She needed the Radio ID, and vin before passing me on to tech. In doing so she found my Radio ID. She still needed to contact tech support to manually enter the radio ID and Vin

Turns out before a dealer releases a vehicle to the customer, they are to provide that info to XM and have your 3 months free trial running for you on delivery. Since we are going a bit Rogue here it needs to be done as I described, or you can try explaining to your dealer what you did and why and seeing if they will do it.

She was excellent on the phone. so just keep calling till you get someone that knows what they are doing. Everything i gave her i gave the first agent.

So up and running with 3 months free.

 

[dolsen]

WARNING!!

I did not mention this when I said I was receiving XM should of. I was getting the Preview channel loud and clear!

Hit a major roadblock that I am trying to work around seems the Radio has not been registered by Ford with Sirius XM!! Tried subscribing online it did not like the radio ID Code. Just called now and tried to set it up over the phone the XM rep could not find it in the system!

Another hurdle? Doubt Ford will be much help.

I even was able to refresh the signal. If anyone has any ideas jump in.

Hmm, I don't know if I have anything of value to add, but I had a similar issue with my 2018 F-150 STX. I added the Navigation and the rep told me there was no way for them to activate the live traffic when I spoke to them on the phone. Some time later (a week, a month? I don't remember) I was using the chat function on the SXM website and was able to get traffic activated with no issue. So either it takes time to register in their system, or the first person I spoke with didn't know what they were doing.

 

[Texas2022XLT]

WARNING!!

I did not mention this when I said I was receiving XM, I should of stated. I was getting the Preview channel loud and clear!

Hit a major roadblock that I am trying to work around seems the Radio has not been registered by Ford with Sirius XM!! Tried subscribing online it did not like the radio ID Code. Just called now and tried to set it up over the phone the XM rep could not find it in the system!

Another hurdle? Doubt Ford will be much help.

I even was able to refresh the signal. If anyone has any ideas jump in.

Update:

Called back to XM and asked to speak to tech support, She needed the Radio ID, and vin before passing me on to tech. In doing so she found my Radio ID. She still needed to contact tech support to manually enter the radio ID and Vin

Turns out before a dealer releases a vehicle to the customer, they are to provide that info to XM and have your 3 months free trial running for you on delivery. Since we are going a bit Rogue here it needs to be done as I described, or you can try explaining to your dealer what you did and why and seeing if they will do it.

She was excellent on the phone. so just keep calling till you get someone that knows what they are doing. Everything i gave her i gave the first agent.

So up and running with 3 months free.

Thanks for the warning…plan on checking my ACM this weekend to see if I was lucky to have a XM tuner already.

 

[dolsen]

WARNING!!

I did not mention this when I said I was receiving XM, I should of stated. I was getting the Preview channel loud and clear!

Hit a major roadblock that I am trying to work around seems the Radio has not been registered by Ford with Sirius XM!! Tried subscribing online it did not like the radio ID Code. Just called now and tried to set it up over the phone the XM rep could not find it in the system!

Another hurdle? Doubt Ford will be much help.

I even was able to refresh the signal. If anyone has any ideas jump in.

Update:

Called back to XM and asked to speak to tech support, She needed the Radio ID, and vin before passing me on to tech. In doing so she found my Radio ID. She still needed to contact tech support to manually enter the radio ID and Vin

Turns out before a dealer releases a vehicle to the customer, they are to provide that info to XM and have your 3 months free trial running for you on delivery. Since we are going a bit Rogue here it needs to be done as I described, or you can try explaining to your dealer what you did and why and seeing if they will do it.

She was excellent on the phone. so just keep calling till you get someone that knows what they are doing. Everything i gave her i gave the first agent.

So up and running with 3 months free.

So it sounds like it was a lack of knowledge on the first reps part. Good to know

 

[dhageremtp]

WARNING!!

I did not mention this when I said I was receiving XM, I should of stated. I was getting the Preview channel loud and clear!

Hit a major roadblock that I am trying to work around seems the Radio has not been registered by Ford with Sirius XM!! Tried subscribing online it did not like the radio ID Code. Just called now and tried to set it up over the phone the XM rep could not find it in the system!

Another hurdle? Doubt Ford will be much help.

I even was able to refresh the signal. If anyone has any ideas jump in.

Update:

Called back to XM and asked to speak to tech support, She needed the Radio ID, and vin before passing me on to tech. In doing so she found my Radio ID. She still needed to contact tech support to manually enter the radio ID and Vin

Turns out before a dealer releases a vehicle to the customer, they are to provide that info to XM and have your 3 months free trial running for you on delivery. Since we are going a bit Rogue here it needs to be done as I described, or you can try explaining to your dealer what you did and why and seeing if they will do it.

She was excellent on the phone. so just keep calling till you get someone that knows what they are doing. Everything i gave her i gave the first agent.

So up and running with 3 months free.

I actually used the Sirius xm dealer app to refresh my radio. Then I called to set up my streaming account t as I already had an xm account. They found it right away.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/siriusxm-dealer/id971618737

So with that app, drive to your dealers parking lot and refresh your radio. It is geofenced so you’ll have to turn on precise location for it and be at the dealer ?

 

[XLT22]

Added those setup experiences to the OP.

I've also confirmed a working but not necessary "correct" way to fix the Fordpass location issue and TCU silent DTC. I found a junkyard antenna from a 2021 for my personal vehicle since I finally found a scenario where my center speaker grille antenna ran into a problem (driving due north in a heavy forest). I disassembled my original antenna and pulled out the GPS antenna along with its attached lead. This was connected to the truck and using double sided tape it was stuck to the top of the headliner. Surprisingly it WILL pull a GPS signal through the roof skin when stationary to give an accurate location. I don't plan on adding navigation so this works for me. Your mileage may vary with an obstructed sky due to it being under the roof skin

 

[dhageremtp]

Added those setup experiences to the OP.

I've also confirmed a working but not necessary "correct" way to fix the Fordpass location issue and TCU silent DTC. I found a junkyard antenna from a 2021 for my personal vehicle since I finally found a scenario where my center speaker grille antenna ran into a problem (driving due north in a heavy forest). I disassembled my original antenna and pulled out the GPS antenna along with its attached lead. This was connected to the truck and using double sided tape it was stuck to the top of the headliner. Surprisingly it WILL pull a GPS signal through the roof skin when stationary to give an accurate location. I don't plan on adding navigation so this works for me. Your mileage may vary with an obstructed sky due to it being under the roof skin

On my 2015 when I retrofitted in a ford pass tcu I left the gps antenna in the cab along the back wall. Never did have a roof antenna. It worked fine. Your idea may work well. I’m curious when we go up north to an area where we do not have cell service what will happen for me.

 

[Wallyo]

Interesting approach! In staring at all the photos of antennas I noticed they all
had screws on the bottoms of them was beginning to wonder could you do what you did and squeeze it all into one. Probably not enough room, but yet cellphones do it!

Was also thinking about ordering the 10-dollar GPS from Amazon unplugging the blue lead from the harness and plugging in the Amazon GPS and squeezing it in the liner to see how it does.

 

[Wallyo]

My antenna sandwich: will live with it bit and see what happens especially when traveling north?. If it doesn’t work out no one will know I drilled a hole.

Looks to be just enough room that the screw holding the antenna in place will have just enough room above that plastic plate.

Ford made 600,000 plus 2022 F150s wonder how many had the delete?

 

[Texas2022XLT]

Wanted to say thanks to XLT22 for starting this forum and Wallyo for some of the tips. My ACM had the XM tuner and I got a test antenna from a junkyard today. I did the activation through chat online took about 20 mins. The reception isn’t the best so I’ll do the factory next weekend. I do find it so odd Ford deleted something so simple to connect.

 

[evoslayer]

I'm having some bad luck with this.

I bought an ACM off ebay, antenna and splitter from From, did the forscan changes and tried to activated with SXM online.

It won't activate and now it appears to not be working at all anymore.

I had the preview channel working, then I restarted the truck to help activate the radio. Now i just get a SXM loading message when i try to use it. No preview channel or anything.

Has anyone else had this happen?

Sponsored