- Apr 12, 2012
- 215
How is everyone's holding up? Looking to get one but seen reviews on Amazon and them melting and causing shut downs.
RP5-GM11
- Thread starter warriorpluto
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Mooseman
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I've had an RP4-GM11 for a couple of years now,no problem at all. So good, I got a second one for the TB. Helluva lot better than the several failed Metra crap I went through.
xavierny25
Member
Hey guys I can't seem to get my new rp5-gm11 to work correctly. So far no steering wheel controls and no audio from onstar. The head unit shuts off when I hit the onstar button but no onstar voice. It's driving me nuts that I can't get it to work right.I have it paired with my sony xav 602 BT, my factory bose amp has been removed.
Mike534x
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- Apr 9, 2012
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I have the same kit running in my Envoy and it works without issue. However, I think I may know what your problem is. If I recall correctly, I believe its been mentioned somewhere on the forum that the On-Star is powered through the Bose amp. I can't remember what thread it was, but when I was looking into replacing my failing Bose amp in my old TrailBlazer with an aftermarket one, there was a trade off between losing On-Star in order to retain working speakers in the doors/dash. As far as the steering wheel controls go, do you have everything wired correctly? those should at least be working excluding the On-Star.
There is a good chance I'm wrong though, I think it still works if the amp is bypassed but I'm not too familiar with wiring/electrical systems in these trucks.
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Mooseman
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For the steering wheel, did you select the proper setting for your brand HU?
For OnStar, I have a feeling that it's supposed to feed the sound directly to the Bose amp so if it's not there, no sound.
For OnStar, I have a feeling that it's supposed to feed the sound directly to the Bose amp so if it's not there, no sound.