I've done this on my wife's TBSS and we hated it at first till we remembered that Channel 0 has no music...

 

This^ I was soo pissed that the commercial channel always playing in the background.. Then I figured it out haha.

 

IF anyone can help, i have started doing this to my 06, and my aux cable only had 3 really small fuzzy wires. The wires were so small i cant imagine that it will work will i need a new auxillary cable? the one i used was pretty old. Also there is a bigger black tube with a red cable inside of it that was also wired to the tan, green and brown, does anyone know what this is and were it goes?

 

umm i'd recommend just going and buying a new cable. like a monster cable or something good, the more wire strands you have to work with the better. as for the other wires you speak of idk havent seen them in a while just follow the instructions, went easy for me

 

I would like to do this mod to my cobalt, I don't have a problem ripping the dash apart. I guess my problem is not knowing 100% which wires to splice, how to splice them and the little details like what kind of AUX input you used, where you got it and if any will work. any help?

 

^^^I just bought a aux jack from radioshack. Had to file the back of plastic peice to make it thin enough to screw on tight but still works great after five months of use.
Did this mod before going to college. Awesome improvement and if done right looks totally stock. My XM radio even started working for some reason after doing it but shuts off like after a couple days and then turns back on. Weird but cool ha Thanks for this it was a big help and only took about 2 hours total and thats just cause i did it slow to make sure it was right.

 

Is there anyone in the MA area that could assist me in doing this mod to my 06?!? i would greatly appreciate it!!

 

Thank you very much, took me a whole 30mins to do this! Solved my aux problem

 

Soo I need help guys... I have an 2007 cobalt ss my radio had aux but it's not there anymore Idk why but the person I got the car from cut it out. But I tried to do this mod since my radio does have XM got the music to play but it wasn't clear at a high level. Any suggestions? I really don't want to have to buy a radio but I will if I have to

 

Just buy a stock 07+ radio on here for like $50.
Maybe get one with aux and usb to make it worth your while.

 

Didn't even think about that. Imma look into that

 

Did this and it works GREAT.

 

So I'm trying to do mine now with a Pipeline AUX cable I got from Radioshack. Problem is, I see the three copper strands of wire but they are all shielded and it also has an extra silver wire for conductivity I suppose. I'm trying to ascertain which one is the ground by just holding it to the tan/white ground wire and then touching the others to see if I get some feedback but nothing so far. after I figure this out, I am going to solder them directly together.

Any tips would be appreciated. Oh, and I discovered the last four letters of my XM ID was ****, which I guess explains why this car is screwing me.

EDIT: So upon further investigation, I found that I have 4 wires. One unshielded stranded wire. One white insulated, one black insulated, and one red insulated, which all have solid copper wires inside per Pipeline's design. I tried messing around with all of them, just holding the wires together and no luck.

 

Has anyone tryed to use the USB cord that came with iPods or iPhones

 

Went to radio shack and bout a 6' aux extension and cut the male end off to find that it only had two cables. Anyone have any advice on how to find one with three wires before I buy it?

 

Dang I just found this. Guess i just wasted $150 on the Tranzlt Blu kit.

Great write up tho!

 

So I have just finished the aux tap but it's really reeeeeally quiet!! Is it because of the cord itself?? Bah so frustrating lol help please.

 

Is the volume on your audio device/phone turned up? you normally have to adjust volume on radio and phone when you're connected through AUX cord

 

Just buy a replacement radio and swap faces. You won't have to get it reprogrammed if you do it that way.

 

Yeah got everything up all the way, I'm going to try a thicker wire. I bought a $3 wire trying to be cheap lol I do have an aftermarket unit I could put in but trying to make the stock unit work

 

I tried three dif cables and couldn't get it to work

 

Finally got it working �� it was the cheap wire

 

I had bought a cheap wire from walgreens and it work just fine. Some aux cables dont work cause i did cut some that had a fiber and not copper which is annoying. But the walgreens genric brand i got had the copper wires and works great