As I am disassembling the interior of my 03 Suburban, I found this device behind the a pillar trim.
It was wired into my OBD connector port harness
From my research, I gather this is a GPS Tracking device, most likely put in when I bought the car from a buy here pay here lot.
My question is, could this be part of the On-Star system for location in the event of an accident? The wiring path looked like it was done after the fact.
2nd part of this, is I am looking into a new radio, but want to have XM, but do not want that magnetic antenna that comes with the XM Receiver. I want to use my factory sharkfin roof antenna.
What I can't figure, is why is there 2 antenna wires? Could this somehow be connected to the On-Star system as well?
They go to a blue 2 port connector behind the dash, that goes to a 2-port connector in the factory satellite receiver and seems to end there. From the receiver is a wiring harness going to the stock radio.
A new XM receiver requires 1 connection for the antenna.
Anyone know why I have 2?
Looking for a workaround here to use an aftermarket XM receiver with my existing antenna...Crutchfield has no solution for this.
It was wired into my OBD connector port harness
From my research, I gather this is a GPS Tracking device, most likely put in when I bought the car from a buy here pay here lot.
My question is, could this be part of the On-Star system for location in the event of an accident? The wiring path looked like it was done after the fact.
2nd part of this, is I am looking into a new radio, but want to have XM, but do not want that magnetic antenna that comes with the XM Receiver. I want to use my factory sharkfin roof antenna.
What I can't figure, is why is there 2 antenna wires? Could this somehow be connected to the On-Star system as well?
They go to a blue 2 port connector behind the dash, that goes to a 2-port connector in the factory satellite receiver and seems to end there. From the receiver is a wiring harness going to the stock radio.
A new XM receiver requires 1 connection for the antenna.
Anyone know why I have 2?
Looking for a workaround here to use an aftermarket XM receiver with my existing antenna...Crutchfield has no solution for this.
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