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"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Another interesting fact from the salvage yard....evidently all the factory
audio electronics are married to the cars computer, and can't be
interchanged without a dealer computer interface.
So if your radio tuner dies, you can't just buy a salvage replacement, stick
it in and get it to work. You have to tell the cars computer to authorize
it, and provide the VIN of the car that the
salvage part came from, or it wont work, and may trigger the anti-theft
system.. It was also interesting to learn that to get cruise control
installed on my car, all you need is the control unit, everything else is
already built in. And you have to go into the cars computer using a dealer
interface, and "authorize" cruise control (yes/no choice). The visit was
quite informative.
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Klaatu wrote:
"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Klaatu wrote:
Anybody know where the audio amplifier is on a 2007 Chevy Cobalt?
Have you asked the local dealer? I never had problems getting
answers from the parts/service department. Some '70s Delco car radios
had the output transistors mounted on a separate heatsink, that was
mounted to the inside of the firewall. They had a pair of TO-3
transistors, and a six wire cable to the unit. People would bring them
into the shop for service, without the outputs and insist we should
just
use the outputs from another radio. We refused, because of the
percentage of bad output transistors left in the cars meant extra work
for us.
The former local dealer has gone out of business as a Chevy dealer, and
will
offer nothing for free. Don't like him anyway due to past dealings. So,
I'm off to the salvage yard to ask them.
There are a lot of hits for Chevy forums, if that doesn't help you.
https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=1Zn&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=chevy+cobalt+forum&oq=Chevy+Cobalt+f&gs_l=serp.1.1.0l10.20700.33355.0.36232.4.4.0.0.0.0.92.357.4.4.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.b_tom4n-AuY
Another interesting fact from the salvage yard....evidently all the factory
audio electronics are married to the cars computer, and can't be
interchanged without a dealer computer interface.
So if your radio tuner dies, you can't just buy a salvage replacement, stick
it in and get it to work. You have to tell the cars computer to authorize
it, and provide the VIN of the car that the
salvage part came from, or it wont work, and may trigger the anti-theft
system.. It was also interesting to learn that to get cruise control
installed on my car, all you need is the control unit, everything else is
already built in. And you have to go into the cars computer using a dealer
interface, and "authorize" cruise control (yes/no choice). The visit was
quite informative.