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    Posted: 20 May 2016 at 8:22am
Hi, we're fairly new 179 owner's, received our pod late last year. We really love it and are anxious to get it back on the road this year.  We've done a few mods but there are 2 we've been unable to get answers on how to do do them. This forum seems to have a lot of knowledgeable and talented people on it Smile so we though we'd throw these questions out there to see what your opinions are.
1) We really want to get XM through our Jensen radio, the manual says it's set up for it but gives no clue on how we go about it.  
2) Would love to put a window in the door to give us more light and view on that end of the pod. 
Our dealer could not help us on either of these questions.
Thank you all and we look forward to being part of the Rpod forum.
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Welcome to the group! Congrats on your 179! 
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Thank youSmile  
I see you have a Dodge Grand Caravan, do you find it tows the trailer well in mountains?  We haven't done any high elevations yet but sometimes feel the Jeep is struggling with lower ones.  It could be just us as we have not towed before because everyone says the Jeep should tow 179 just fine.  Just wondering. 
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We do like our Grand Caravan, it has the Pentastar 3.6 engine that puts out 283 horsepower. It give us usually 13.5 mpg in Vermont  and 15-16 once we get down to Massachusetts and below. We do really well in the Green Mountains of Vermont. the White mountain in New Hampshire and have been in the Poconos in Pennsylvania.We have not tested it out in the larger mountain out west like the Rockies or anything out that way. We have plenty of power for getting on the interstates etc.
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Originally posted by Micky

Thank youSmile  
I see you have a Dodge Grand Caravan, do you find it tows the trailer well in mountains?  We haven't done any high elevations yet but sometimes feel the Jeep is struggling with lower ones.  It could be just us as we have not towed before because everyone says the Jeep should tow 179 just fine.  Just wondering. 


What engine do you have in the GC?
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Originally posted by Micky

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1) We really want to get XM through our Jensen radio, the manual says it's set up for it but gives no clue on how we go about it.

The Jensen DVD/Radio in most 2016 models do not have XM capability, my AWM968 does not. Look on the front of your Jensen for the model #, and I can look up the manual and let you know if your's has an XM antenna jack.
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Check out my mods for the door window. There are other postings about it also in the forum. If you have (or are willing to purchase) some tools and are willing to tackle this, you can install a window in the door yourself. Two options are a round, porthole style window and a rectangular window that can open. The rectangular one is what we chose. The hardest part is getting up the nerve to cut the opening. The actual installation is not too difficult. Removing the door and laying it flat is very helpful, both for cutting the opening and installing the window.

As for XM, where do you find that the Jensen radio is capable of XM reception? None of the Jensen models I looked at on the Jensen site have that capability. The trailer has a connector for satellite, but that is for a satellite TV antenna. One would still need a satellite TV receiver to use it.

Edit: I just looked at my unit again. There are two possibilities. One is that if you have an Sirius/XM receiver that can connect to the Aux input jack, you could use it that way. The second is if you have an Sirius/XM receiver that has Bluetooth output, you could connect via that. Otherwise, I do not see any way of playing Sirius/XM through the Jensen unit.
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I just did a google search for "Rpod XM Radio". This animal does not seem to exist.
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Stephen, thank you.
Yes it has bluetooth & aux input.  It appears I would need to purchase a Sirius receiver and plug it into one of the inputs.  I know I will need an antenna but didn't want to drill any holes in the pod.  I see Sirius is now selling a wireless antenna I would prefer to go that route.
Appreciate you comments!
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