2008 CTS Navigation

[Bandit1]

[Bandit1]

Originally Posted by trans78

i did get it all installed and everything seems like it would work. howerver the main radio is locked becuase the vin number in the radio doesn't match the vin in the main computer. however, everything still powers up just fine, it just says "locked" when you try to use anything. so now i need to figure out what i need to do to change the vin. i have been told that i can't send the radio in because its an alpine and the vin numbers are burned into the memory. so all i can do is get an exchange radio from cadillac for about $600 and then they can set the vin. however, i do have one gm tech that thinks that he can get it changed. so we will see what happens next week. however everything up to this point was a piece of cake. i bet i only have 2 hours in the whole install, and 90mins of that was making my own wire harness to connect the radio to the pop up screen.

Did you get er' done?

[pcmodder530]

I'm guessing it didn't work out very well since your selling the units on ebay.
Any idea what went wrong?

[Bandit1]

Originally Posted by pcmodder530

I'm guessing it didn't work out very well since your selling the units on ebay.
Any idea what went wrong?

You're probably right.....................or else we would be hearing the success story by now. Was really hoping someone had found the answer.

[ranton]

The answer is if you want a nav system buy it when you order the car, along with other options you want. As we have seen, after market installs of things like that don't do very well. It never fails to amaze me when people say they thought they were getting this but got that instead.

[Gbreaken]

From what I saw on ebay, his wife totaled the car. He probably didn't get a chance to get it working before that happened and may not get another CTS or may get one with nav already installed.

[Bandit1]

Originally Posted by ranton

The answer is if you want a nav system buy it when you order the car, along with other options you want. As we have seen, after market installs of things like that don't do very well. It never fails to amaze me when people say they thought they were getting this but got that instead.

OBVIOUSLY, that may be the "easy" way out. However, 'after purchase oem equip/accessory installs' do work and work well as indicated in Corvette C6 installations, specifically the Nav system. I don't think anyone in this thread stated "they thought they were getting this but got that instead". Some of us did however, purchase a CTS from a private owner or dealer without the Nav installed and would like to add the oem option. It is possible and there are some of us who are seeking the details of installation.