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Am I understanding you right, you have a after market retrofit of the 06 advanced radio?
I have wanted this since I saw the 06 Ultra. Only I want the CB/interrcom in addition to the XM.
CD,
Actually it's not even an "aftermarket" installation; all Harley parts. I've seen nothing from the aftermarket yet to make accomplishing this. Also, I've read nothing from Harley anyplace about a factory released retrofit package yet. As usual, there probably won't be any advanced warning. It'll just show up someday. But so far everyone and everything says we can't do this; at least not yet. So I went ahead and did it anyway.
So far as time on task it's not totally done yet. Only two of three boxes that were shipped arrived yesterday. So the XM package isn't on the bike yet. But the radio installation itself was a snap. Was working on it during the overnight because that's just when I got around to it (I'm a bit of a night owl). Total time to pull the fairing, swap the radios, and have the radio itself working was just a bit over an hour.
The radio itself is a pretty simple task to R&R. The XM addition shouldn't be any big deal either. The CB kit you're interested in, however, will take as long as all the rest of it put together. It'll require adding a new switch and housing to your left controls. That means running more wires through the bars. The CB kit is also described as adding a "dash pod." I haven't even seen that part in person yet. But you've got to guess it means changing our dash (that matches our paint job) to something that will accept this "pod." Again, it's just a guess here but I'm assuming the "pod" is a place to plug in a headset (too bad Harley doesn't offer us a Bluetooth helmet to eliminate the ugly and annoying cords and plugs).
So, in short, yes, the 06 radio is in the 05 bike and (so far) working flawlessly. It's not a big deal to install. The XM kit won't be either. All of the other accessories could also be added if one were so inclined. In some cases, however, we'd have to be changing dash or switch components to be able to get it done or hanging enough stuff in the tour pak that, in practice, we'd never want to take it off again. That's not isolated to just us though. Anyone with an 06 touring bike that didn't have all of it to begin with would have to make the same changes. It's just part of the package.
CD, if you want to get started on a changeover sometime but don't want to muck about inside the fairing just give me a call. We're only just over an hour away from one another. Get your radio, ride down here, we'll hole up in the garage some Saturday afternoon, drink a beer or three and install you a new radio.