So... I have an 07 ss with the 7 speaker pioneer.

I would like to put an 09 radio in there with usb and bluetooth.

That should fit the same harness right? Everything should function correctly? same controls on the steering wheel?

Where do I get an 09 radio? how much do they cost generally?

Thanks for your input!

 

Maybe, but you'd music a lot better if you went with an aftermarket head unit.

 

I put an 09 deck in my 07, it's a direct swap. Just have to get the 09 deck unlocked once you put it in cause it'll lock itself as soon as you turn the car on. I don't know if the bluetooth will work though, it doesn't on mine, but probably due to me not having OnStar. If you have OnStar in your car it may work.

 

NCC-2000, Thanks for the reply. I do have onstar, so maybe the bluetooth will work. Regardless, just the usb alone is enough to make me swap. Does that work fine for you? can you control your ipod from the steering wheel? Where did you get yours? how much? Thanks again.

 

I don't have an iPod, I refuse to use those damn things, so I don't know how it interacts with the deck. I just plug in my 4GB USB stick and play music from that. I got mine from a member on here, so you can try your luck that way and see if anyone is willing to sell.

 

Lol, I refused to buy an Ipod too for like 5 years.... until one was given to me. You can navigate the USB drive pretty well though?

I tried an MP3 cd in the 07 radio when I first got it. SO slow, so I never did that again. Burned cds also skip like crazy at random. Thats another reason I'm hoping an 09 radio will be better. I burn a lot of cd's at work.

 

The navigation for the flash drive could be better, but it's adequate. It's not like some aftermarket decks where there's a limit to how many songs you can put in one folder. The deck I have in my Sunbird is like that, anything you have plugged into the USB port can only have 255 songs per folder, which forced me to split my music up into three separate folders so it could read it all. The Cobalt deck will read everything in one go. Scanning through for a specific song can take a while though. If you're at the beginning of the file list and want to listen to something near the end of the list, you have to scroll through the entire contents to get to it, you can't just skip backwards from the beginning to the end. It also takes a bit to scroll through stuff in general because it'll read the tags from each file as you go through them. I usually end up just spinning the knob continuously until I think I'm close to the right section, wait for it to load that section of songs and see how close I am. That's kind of a pain in the ass but since it only has a few lines of text to work with I guess that's all it can do. The one thing I wish it did that it doesn't is have the track listing follow what song it's currently playing. When I manually select a song say in the Bs, when it changes songs to something in the Ts, if you go to manually select a song it's still got the B song selected so you have to scroll through everything again. That's the only thing I really don't like but it's not too big a deal. I haven't used a CD since I put this deck in and I wouldn't ever go back anyway.

 

Have you tried organizing using sub-folders? Might be easier to find what you want quicker. Thanks for the good info!

 

did you find a cost on these yet?

 

Would love to hook this up to my car just to see if it is compatible with the GM PAL. Part #?

 

you will not be able to use bluetooth in an 07 because you do not have the microphone, it is mounted right next to the sunroof switch in the 08-09.

 

actually. I DO have a microphone. Onstar equipped.
Mounted in the exact same place you described.

 

huh, never noticed it in the ss/sc, ok well it may still not work it depends on the pinouts on the HU.

 

Just buy a aftermarket deck with usb and bluetooth built in prob about same price and will probably be nicer.

 

Well, thats what Im trying to find out, if the pinouts are the same