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Old 01-31-2012, 04:31 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I am shopping for aftermaket head units for my 2012 ram. Most of them sell optional sirius tuners with an antenna. Is there an adapter or is an adapter required to use the factory sirius antenna with an aftermarket head unit? I searched and most of the info was 3rd gen
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I am shopping for aftermaket head units for my 2012 ram. Most of them sell optional sirius tuners with an antenna. Is there an adapter or is an adapter required to use the factory sirius antenna with an aftermarket head unit? I searched and most of the info was 3rd gen
Might want to call crutchfeild but pretty sure you need an adaptor


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I chatted them up online and they said it depends on what type of antenna dodge uses, smb or not. so idk what type of antenna it uses...gen 3 says "fakra"
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i remember on the 06-08 rams with sirius you could take the yellow factory plug off the wire and then it left a plug that would plug into an aftermarket sirius tuner, but don't know if that works on the 4th gens also.


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I asked that same question a while back to a few different people and i was told no not at this time. there is no adapter.
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I work for a local stereo shop and I just installed a aftermarket radio with sat. If you remove the factory harness from the antenna end in the truck in will fit on to the end on the tuner box. I put some tape to hold it on and zip tied the after market tuner so the the antenna would not come unplugged. Everything worked seamlessly. It was even an XM tuner instead of Sirius ever since the merger the antennas are interchangeable between the two..
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sweeeeet. I was hoping someone like you would come along and provide an answer, especially if its the one I wanted
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I was pretty excited it worked too. The customer really was happy because he didn't want the extra antenna scratching the black paint of his new truck.
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