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I did this on my '03 9-5 a couple of months ago with the Motorola HF850, which I bought on Ebay for around $90. I also bought the Saab wiring harness--about $19. There are lots of posts on this site about wiring. (You'll have to do a search for the wiring chart that tells you what color wire on the wiring harness to connect to the bluetooth wiring set.) You pull out the ACC unit to access the onstar wiring bundle, which is wrapped in a fabric tape. Once you unwrap it, there is some sort of lever on one of the sockets that you will need to slide so the two sockets can separate.
Here are some tips from my install:
Use the microphone that comes with the Motorola kit. I first tried to use the microphone that is integrated in the car, and no one could hear me. It's a pain to splice the wires back together.
I clipped the microphone to the headliner in front of the rear view mirror, ran it across the top toward the driver's side A-column, then down into the space where the fuse panel is (next to the steering wheel), then down toward the brake pedal. Then, having removed the ACC unit, I used a stick to reach from that hole down toward the brake pedal to catch the end of the microphone wire and pull it into the ACC unit compartment.
I mounted the bluetooth button module next to the onstar buttons on the dash. (I removed the dummy button below the onstar buttons, and ran the wire down to the ACC compartment.) Someone else pointed out, and I agree, that you want to mount the unit behind the steering wheel, so that the blue light from the module is not constantly shining in your eyes.
The bluetooth control box does, in fact, fit behind the ACC unit, so you can put it there and reinsert the ACC unit.
I connected the wires using butt end crimps that I bought at Radio Shack for about $1.
Once you map out the process, it's very easy. Having a true handsfree system in my car is awesome.
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