anyone ever looked into customizing/reprogramming the rpd to display different data, or anything like that, I would just like my boost gauge to display vac too, but i'm sure there are lots of possibilities.

 

Dont think there is any aftermarket, its basically taking sensors from your car and putting them on a screen UI. You can get other gauges that can take use of these sensors as well.

I wish you could customize it as well, Id love to see my speed and boost on the screen at once :|

 

What I'd love to know... is can it be customized to show what you brothers down in the USA have.

Try being at your next meet, and explaining to someone that you run 134.7KPA with your GMS1, instead of just saying 22-23psi.

******* Canada.

 

if you set your car's d.i.c. to english instead of metric it will display psi instead of kpa

 

^....you can make it display in English units you know...press and hold the info and enter button on your steering wheel, scroll through the options on the DIC until you get to units...select English, and now your boost is in psi!

 

I've tried that before with no success? I always figured it was a general owner's manual, and you guys down South had that option built in, and we didn't get it. Now I want to know why that doesn't work!

You got more colors and the sedan, so I didn't question why this didn't work either.

Thanks boys!

 

lol Canada got the same colors and the sedan SS as well as far as I knew? I could be wrong though?

Try swapping the units over again and see if it changes. If is doesn't work you should bring it to the dealer and get them to check it out!

 

canada got the same colors and the sedan
and mine switches from english to metric when I change the d.i.c. setting, and I am in canada
maybe trying scrolling through screens on the rpd and d.i.c. and shut off the car and open the door and then go and try it again

 

... I was told there are absolutely no SS/TC sedans in Canada at all. Perhaps that's Alberta only?

I'm gonna be some pissed if I find out I was mislead, and I could have bought my car in a sedan.

I'm being quite serious... is there a single Canadian member with an SS purchased IN Canada?

 

I saw one on the lot brand new at my dealer a few years ago, I wish I would have got a t/c then...

 

Yeah there are a a few who have them on here. I'll see if I can find some member names for you.

Cobalt_Daddy is one member in NS who has a blue sedan.

aweSOMeBalt is another member in BC who has a sport red sedan.

So yeah, you definitely were mislead!

 

2009 Chevrolet Cobalt SS Sedan - Oshawa / Durham Region Cars For Sale - Kijiji Oshawa / Durham Region Canada.

there is a used one for sale, ask him where he bought it, I'm willing to bet it was bought in canada

 

Ah... Cobalt SS/TC sedans were only built for one year. Does that stand true for the USA as well?

I was originally interested in a dark red sedan, but those options weren't even in the 2010 catalogue, so I settled on my second choice, which was a black coupe.

Just went and tried to change over to imperial again... got it to stick. I didn't realize how touchy the buttons were and apparently I was hitting that twice, and just reverting back to factory settings again, haha. I feel like an idiot now... I work on cars for a living.

 

yeah the turbo sedan was an 09 only thing in both canada and usa

 

i test drove two turbo sedans over a year ago. One was victory red and was sold in Orillia and the other the black and was sold in Barrie Ontario

 

I'm sure the EEPROM chip or whatever they use in the RPD could be reprogrammed with a different UI if you really wanted.

 

would be interesting to see if someone who knows what they are up to could re-program it to make it display other information.

 

There are definitely sedans in AB lol. My neighbor a few houses down has a white one. Probably the best sleeper iave ever seen. Purchased new at a local dealership.

On a related note I just wish our stupid boost gauge on the RPD read vacuum.

 

white sedan, what i wish my cobalt was
and the vac thing is my motivation for making this thread lol

 

Yeah I just haven't seen one... I was told "We didn't get the sedan". Which is total bullshit! We got it, just in '09, and wasn't relevant at my time of purchase.

I'm glad I got that all cleared up and my RPD reads in psi! Woot!

 

I'm wondering if Vince@TF can reprogram RPD?? since it's getting the data from both ECM & BCM???

 

Ive only seen one 4 door SS here, at the dealership. I think it was someones car who works there, other than that.. id guess there is less than 10 LNF's in total in my city.. but who knows.

 

DashDAQ from Drew Technologies

I just saw this on another forum, where a guy had a HHR SS RPD and this side by side as part of a custom project. I don't know anything about it, but it seems pretty cool.

 

theres no reason we shouldnt be able to do this... anyone torn into it to look?