I have a friend with an 06 Silverado. Will my stock 06 Cobalt CD/radio unit fit in his truck. Also what other cars will it fit in?

 

Thats the dumbest thing Ive ever heard.

Sean

 

Why would you put the shitty stock radio in any other car? Go get a good one made by someone who specializes in audio.

 

Cause he has a radio with no cassette or CD player. I have mine laying around and it's free. Thanks for bashing me guys.

 

I respect the fact that you are being generous and offering your radio to your friend for free, but my advice to you would be to keep the stock radio yourself even if you are not using it. You never know if the day comes when you want to sell or trade in your car, you'll want to put the stock radio back in. Tell your friend to spend a few $$$ and get a decent after-market system. He doesn't have to spend allot.

 

Very good point, but do you really think the resale of the car would be different with a factory or aftermarker CD player

 

But if you spent allot on a really good after-market Stereo would you really want to give that away with the car when you could just put back the stock factory system. Plus allot of people want to buy a car that is still original.

honestly, I think your friend would have more problems trying to fit in the stock cobalt stereo which is made for the cobalt, than buying a after-market system.

 

No ...it will not work . The last gen trucks were the 1st gen of GMLan electronics , the Cobalt uses the newest CAN based electronics . The truck PCM would never be able to identify the theft-loc signal , so you wouldnt be able to activate it . Unlike the old school theft lock where entered a code into the actual radio . IN ALL the new GM radios ( starting at about the 2005 timeframe) the theft loc is passive and automatically locks when the radio is removed from power . You activate it thru the PCM via a tech2 scan tool . It gets very complicated if u dont understand just how all the modules and data buses work and communicates with one another .

The Cobalt radio really wont work in any other GM car , even though alot of GM radio's look nearly identical . The internal electronics in alot of cases are car line specific .

 

Hey no problem man, thats what Im here for.

Sean