Solara Sirus Radio install in Prius

OK, granted that Sirius Radio was/is covered in another message, but it probably bears having a dedicated topic discussing this particular application.

Toyota released word last week that they now have a Sirius satellite radio option for the Toyota Solara (press release is at Yahoo! Finance ). As many of you already know, the Toyota Solara XM radio solution unofficially works in the Prius.

So, I stopped by the local dealer on Friday afternoon and talked to the service manager. He said these units are available for delivery in about two days, and sees no reason why the unit won't fully work on the Prius... including full operation through the MFD, and storing presets in the SAT1, SAT2, and SAT3 locations. The unit is priced at $199, and requires the purchase of a vehicle-specific fit/trim kit... that isn't available for the Prius, so the dealer service manager said he'd have to wing it with whatever else was available. I think it was somewhere around $50 for the Solara, but the service manager didn't know exactly what that included.

He's willing to take a crack and putting one in my Prius, but offers no guarantees that it will work (and suggested that if it doesn't, I'd be on the hook for labor... that is probably kind of reasonable, I guess).

So, here's the point of this post... I'm not going to have time to get it done for a few weeks, so if you are ambitious, and feel like having a dealer install one of these, please post your experiences here. If you know of a sound reason why the Solara Sirius radio won't work in a Prius, post that here as well. Please limit the thread to just discussion of whether or not the Solara Sirius receiver works in the Prius, and what your experiences with it have been. We'll leave general Sirius and satellite radio discussions to other threads.

A lot of us are probably considering having this done, so the shared experience will be helpful. Thanks.

Dan