This just makes me glad I removed the starlink box from my outback the first month I got the car.
If anyone wants to do the same in my 2018 (most gen 5s should be the same) you remove the radio and the starlink box is inside it. Removing the box breaks your front speakers and microphone. A simple passive pigtail will fix the speakers, but the microphone needs power. I found a guy online who made the active adapter so it was purely plug and play.
It might not tell you that it’s Subaru’s connectivity system (absent context), but I bet that if they’d written it that way, it’d at least let you know that it’s probably not SpaceX’s satellite Internet service program.
This just makes me glad I removed the starlink box from my outback the first month I got the car.
If anyone wants to do the same in my 2018 (most gen 5s should be the same) you remove the radio and the starlink box is inside it. Removing the box breaks your front speakers and microphone. A simple passive pigtail will fix the speakers, but the microphone needs power. I found a guy online who made the active adapter so it was purely plug and play.
To anyone who didn’t read the article and was confused like me, apparently starlink is Subaru’s remote car security feature.
Apparently they capitalize it, so the article author kinda screwed it up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_(disambiguation)
That wouldn’t help me tbh
It might not tell you that it’s Subaru’s connectivity system (absent context), but I bet that if they’d written it that way, it’d at least let you know that it’s probably not SpaceX’s satellite Internet service program.
Good point. I always forget about Teslas starlink when talking about Subarus