Help with PAL Install!
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Instructor
Joined: Nov 2007
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From: Ness City, Flatlands of Kansas
Help with PAL Install!
Just spent 2 1/2 hours doing the install. Like everyone else the xm wire was a PIA! Slapped everything back together and ipod worked great, seats heat and lighter works. Pulled out of the garage and now have a red slash through my gps button on the nav screen. Nav screen shows that I'm moving but direction of movement and the North indicator are all out of sync. I thought I put all wires back into the nav unit but could I have missed one? Any help would be much appreciated. I just know I'm going to have to take the console off again.
Instructor
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From: Georgetown Texas
I just discovered the same issue after my PAL install. I thing that you reconnected everything OK. After some experimation, I found the fix to be to simply select menu, setup, and calibrate. After I did that, the Nav worked just fine. Hope this helps
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Instructor
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From: Ness City, Flatlands of Kansas
Did you have the red slash through the gps button on the left side of the screen?
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Instructor
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From: Ness City, Flatlands of Kansas
If I remember correctlly there were just 4 connections on the back, antenna, then smaller black connector, the big main connector,and the white power connection.
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From: Georgetown Texas
The XM wire was the most difficult of the entire install due to the location. My aging body cannot take much of the twisting and contorting that I had to put it through. I finally just cut the wire, taped up the connector extremely well and spliced the XM wire to the PAL wire. It worked just fine.
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Instructor
Joined: Nov 2007
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From: Ness City, Flatlands of Kansas
I know what you mean. I found some new muscles in my lower back I didn't know were there. I did the same thing with the wire as you did. I would have thought that there would have been a more accessible place to hook on too.
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