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Thanks for the help, but see my response above...several different antennas listed.
Nor was mine. I thought I blew it somehow so when I went to pull the panel to replace, I found the unused connector with tape over it! Same left rear speaker too.Okay. This is much more work than I anticipated. I started to drop down the rear headliner then realized the the surround pieces by the rear pillars and side pillars also need to be removed. The headliner is a cardboard type material that can’t be flexed without showing creases.
I also found that my left rear speaker was never connected!
If anyone has any tips on removing the headliner it would be appreciated.
So you are using the gps antenna behind the dashboard?
Is the sync 3 APIM you upgraded with from a vehicle that did have factory navigation?
You need two or possibly three things for this to work, the roof antenna from a 2017 or later explorer or any other sync 3 equipped ford with the same style roof antenna and antenna connector (Ford Fusions with the non-shark fin work and are generally cheaper, most other models are shark fins, you need one with a dual mustard yellow fakra type connector and a 3 pin flat connector with a single blue wire, make sure you get all mounting hardware as it's different) sync equipped vehicles with the same connector style have a GPS antenna in the antenna base regardless of design, then you need the splitter cable, and lastly you MUST have a XM radio capable ACM unless you can find a cable that has only FM and NAV output, or find a FM and XM splitter and use a fakra "Z" cable to adapt it to the APIM. Long story short, the splitter cable is a bandpass filter that sends XM frequencies to the XM radio and GPS to the APIM, if you don't have either device the other won't work as the resistance of the modules and antennas is part of the bandpass formula, without a load present on a connector the frequencies will be wrong.
Thanks for the details. Appreciate it.
I did the Sync2>Sync3 upgrade on a 2015 Mustang Ecoboost Premium. Car previously had Sirius and there is a fin antenna on the roof. Under the center armrest there is a fakra connector to the antenna. If I run a Fakra extender from the center console to the Sync3 is it likely to work? If not, can you recommend and aftermarket GPS that actually works? I had Navigation errors (Sync 3.4) using Binfu and Eightwood GPS antennas from Amazon. I tried Xtenzi brand which has no errors but wanders off the map while driving. These are installed on the dash below a plastic grill. Hidden Sync diagnostic menu shows 17 satellites and decent signal. Works fine for a couple of streets and then starts to wander off the map. Gyro data to the IPC blinks random directions.
Is the one under the arm rest a dual connector (should be dual blue or dual yellow typically) if so you need a new front splitter and a new roof antenna from a sync 3 year car more than likely. Or you can replace the roof antenna and get a fakra “z” extender and put it on the end of the Sirius connector (yellow iirc) if you’re willing to give up Sirius working, fakra z is unkeyed. Either way the roof antenna is unlikely to have gps stock, I pulled one from a 2016 explorer (last year of sync 2 and first of new electronics) and it didn’t have one.
