Won it and its being shipped here and once the weather clears so I can drive the Camaro this is another little project to add to the car along with finalizing my brembo upgrade and egx body kit.
I'm hoping I can just cut the dash (it's hollow) buy the HUD defrost nozzle and wire it up with the HUD dash switch and it'll be a go.
Don't want nor need acc so that removes most of the headache however does anyone know if there's any special programming needed to activate this once I hook everything up or once wired up will it just work (highly unlikely).
Any assist guys? Especially looking for insight from the other gurus (this means you ddadler!)
Some members have had dealers say that their 2006 STS didn't have the feature only to later find another dealer to enable it. Others have tread the path of your quest without joy but there's always a first time. Good luck.
with Daddlers help and removing the speedo I can confrim the cavity is there and set up for ALL cars to accept hud and it does not in fact mount to the carrier but an aluminum subframe which mounts to the firewall which is also PRESENT on non hud cars, with the holes for the projector mount but it is missing the threaded inserts to actually bolt it down....
The differences in the dash carrier only appears to be a cut in the upper plastic for a window to project the hud, this I passed on purchasing the carrier to keep costs down and will opt to simply use a cut wheel to cut the window myself
I did note and I believe Daddler mentioned this that the vent tube which runs to the left side vent does in fact appear different, thus Rippy I need to add that vent tube to the parts list, its the large plastic vein which directs the air flow from the air box to the left most side vent. I am assuming you can confrim there is a difference between one with and without UV6.
***Picture courtesy of Daddler!***
There may in fact not be a different duct. You will be able to tell if you remove your instrument cluster trim and instrument cluster. This will give you a clear view of where the HUD should mount. Looking at some of my other photos, the HUD doesn't appear to extend past the aluminum frame to where it will interfere with the HVAC duct.
IT WORKS!!!! Installed the 2008 rcdlr in my sts today. Install was easy programming for the fobs and then clearing the ECM to learn the rcdlr password took an hour but the secure car feature works PERFECT on my 05 sts.
Yea, since they VR can open all windows, the must be a code that could be sent over the car's network. Likewise, it might be possible to modify a window control module to close the sunroof when the Secure Car feature is activated.
As usual, such project might get very expensive, but 'possible' has no pricetag.
The Express Open is only when using the switch in the console because there is no data bus connection to the sun roof in these cars. Certainly Express Open/Close is within design possibility, but without integral sensors engineered into the system, there is no protection from strangulation or other pinching making this type of modification a really bad idea. There would need to be timing modifications, along with other significant software changes in many different components to adapt a door control module. I'd love to meet someone that has source code though. It would help with a lot of my "dream" projects.
Vr can open / close all windows (no roof) so I agree there must be a network "packet" that sends this command to express down or express up the windows.
Are you sure there is no data up there?
I thought the roof would stop closing if put in park or something if it was during closure. Then again that might have been in the SRX.
Vr can open / close all windows (no roof) so I agree there must be a network "packet" that sends this command to express down or express up the windows.
Absolutely there is for the door windows. It's a case of how to adapt this functionality for the roof that simply isn't realistic from "our" abilities. I should have been more clear in my post that my first sentence was referring to Express Open of the roof, and the switch I reference is in the "roof" console, nothing to do with door glass or controls. I was ambiguous.
So doing a little more reading, it does have an anti-pinch feature so why GM didn't tie this in to the rest of the vehicle systems is beyond me. Hmmm. Definitely nothing about this in schematics or the Owner's manual.
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The only connection outside of power, ground and the control switches is to the Rear Integration Module. This provides and 'Enable' signal so the controls are permitted to work.
The problem is that each type of module (PDM, DDM, DDSA, etc) has a three digit ID assignment. When information is transmitted on the data bus, the data packet contains this ID which is how each module knows whether to act upon/process the packet or ignore it. In this vintage of vehicle (I say this because as development moves forward, GM may change the strategy a little), the ID's are standardized across all GM platforms. In order to make this work, the module would require a unique ID, but also any other module sending data to it would also have to be reprogrammed with the appropriate ID. This would require resources only available to very few people.
I definitely won't have any pics that detailed. I'll have a look at my collection but when I had my dash out, a friend was standing over me in a hurry because he couldn't stay long to help. I wanted to get more (and better) pics of the dash than I did.
Don't suppose I can convince you to pop your pad off and take one huh? Hahaha
Thanks!
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