Well, I pick up my new '08 Astra 3dr XR tomorrow afternoon.
I own a Sirius Starmate 4, which is currently in my Camry, running through a cassette adapter.
Unfortunately, there is no AUX input in the Astra stereo, so I will have to go with an FM modulator setup, and will be hardwiring it in there while I'm at it, as I'm not a huge fan of having cords running every which way in a new car.
I was planning on using this install kit:
The problem I'm having, is that I can't figure out for sure just what else I need. Because the Astra is so new, most websites aren't listing compatible parts, so I have no clue whether or not there will be a need for me to buy any sort of additional antenna adapters, which I have a hunch that I will, being that the car is just a rebadged Opel and built overseas.
Plenty of you are more savvy with this than I am. Can anyone else figure out just what I need to put my precious Sirius into the new car?
Well, someone on a Saturn message board shot me a message saying that it uses the newer style Motorola antenna, so I will need both the male to female and female to male adapters.
He also clued me in that there are no switched 12v sources for the radio, only constant, so I'll need to grab a switched 12v from the passenger side kick panel via an unused connector, which uses brown for ground and black for positive (go figure, silly Europeans).
Now to figure out just how I'm going to mount the thing.