Hello;

I did some searched to no avail before creating this thread.

Can someone help me?
My title is one of two issues I am having with the '09 SS Sedan that we own.

When I bought the car, it had a poorly installed aftermarket deck, which was a Sirius deck, and it had a corresponding aftermarket receiver.

I went through the car trying to put everything to stock - this included a LOT of wire loom repairs;
As I can see it, nothing is disconnected, and this issue really has me stumped.

I installed a correct (according to RPO sticker) deck that I pulled from another 09 SS wrecked back in 2010.
I have a Tech2, and unlocked it - it works fine, but doesn't appear to have any XM capability - this was hte first clue that something was wrong (becasue this IS an XM deck - all LNF cars had XM decks).

I have verified that the original xm receiver hooked up, but this issue persists.
I am pretty sure this is also why the light on the onstar rear view mirrors shows a red light.

I have attached three images of what I am seeing when hooked up to the car - my gut says all three are essentially from the same issue.







Can anyone help me?

I also have a full set of factory service manuals, if someone can point me to what I need to do.

 

The option configuration error means the vehicle communication interface module (also known as the onstar module) needs to be programmed. When your referring to the deck, are you saying you replaced the radio itself? Did you replace any other parts such as the ones in the photos below located on the back deck lid between the rear speakers.

 

First; THANK you for the reply!!

I only replaced the radio itself;
When I bought the car, the original factory installed radio was MIA;

I verified that the digital radio receiver was present and hooked up.
Where is the communications interface module?

Would I be able to program the "onstar" module with my Tech2?

 

So in the pictures, the first one is the onstar module, the second picture is the digital radio receiver (which can be seen in the bottom left of the first picture). Both are between the rear speakers under the decklid panel. Check and make sure your car has U2K rpo code on the sticker or you could send me the vin and ill check your rpos. I would check this fuse (if its bad) or pull this fuse (if its good) for the digital radio receiver first, wait about 1 min, then reinstall the fuse. The drr commonly starts going bad by losing communication and a power reset fixes it.

its fuse 24 on the bcm (behind right center console kick panel). should be a red 10 amp fuse.

For the radio and onstar module you have to have a dealer program it unfortunately. We use a program called Service Programming System (or SPS as we say).

 

I emailed you a reply.

 

So i checked, your particular ss sedan was not equipped with xm radio. I believe the radio itself could accept xm if its the right part number and reprogrammed with a xm car vin but unfortunately your car is not equipped with the digital radio receiver or antenna for it. you could equip it with all the parts if you can find a donor but you might have to also cut the wiring and connectors and make your own harness to connect to the radio. Non xm car i believe has a different instrument panel harness and headliner harness too so i would expect those connectors and wiring to be missing. Kinda rare it doesn't but it was actually a option to have it, not a standard. I believe the only standard part of that was onstar. You could pick to have or not have xm, and also pick between a 6 disc changer radio (my ss has it) or a single cd with usb radio that can play files from a jump drive.

 

heres your cars info, history, and build information. Blacked out the vin in case you dont want it seen.

 

interesting.

I need to pause again to thank you for helping me on this.

I know this was an earlier build, and I know that standard equipment changed during '09 (spare tire vs air pump comes to mind), but I had understood that XM was a standard component!?
I know the six disc was an option for '08, but not for '09;
I believe the USB deck (my yellow coupe has it) was essentially the replacement option for 2009 cars in leau of the 2007-2008 6-disc deck.

EDIT:
Ok, so I just grabbed my car's, and the wrecked car's window stickers;
Just as you said, XM was NOT standard equipment.
I had thought the wrecked car (it's THIS car - a white coupe with grey interior, a high rise, and G85) had XM, but it apparently did not!
My car shows the XM option as being $260(cnd), as well as the USB port being $115(cnd).

I will investigate this further;
I am pretty sure the wiring is all there, and that I kept EVERYTHING from the wrecked '09 coupe that this deck is from.
I may have to get an XM reciever from a wrecker - but honestly hte lack of XM radio capability is a pretty small deal - I want to get everything working perfectly as it should be first.

I have a couple other matters which I assumed were related to this;
The factory alarm doesn't appear to work;
I cannot seem to program a second fob to the car (I only received one fob, and one key with the car; I have tried a half dozen fobs, and have tested to verify that the batteries are good).

Unlike my yellow car which is not subscribed to onstar, this car has a red light indicated on the rear view mirror - which I believe is indicating a communication issue of sorts...
I had previously thought that the xm antenna issue was some how tied to the rest.

 

Thank you so very much for those two pdfs!!

 

your welcome for the pdfs, yea i cant confirm if the harness's were the same or not for most of the different option cobalts but they tended to use most of them for multiple builds.
If you need any schematics, connector views, or harness routing views just let me know. Good luck with the project but to give some help, the red light for onstar and the code would be a program issue on the module. The configuration error is due to it seeing its hooked up to a different car and parts. For the fobs i would try to use the tech 2 to clear all learned fobs and program that way. There is a option for just adding fobs or clearing and programming them fresh. The biggest problem i have with fobs is two problems, the battery tab is cracked from the pcb and pressing the buttons causes it to disconnect. I also have issues with the button breaking down from time and not actually closing the connection when your pressing both buttons when programming. You can clean the carbon button with alcohol and buff the contact with q tips to help. Its not permanent but usually works for a while, the rubber breaking down releases oils and contaminates the carbon tab on the rubber.

The best starting point atm if you dont care about trying to get xm to work is have the radio reprogrammed and onstar module reprogrammed once all the connections are in place.

 

Thank you VERY much!

ok.
I am guessing we will be booking an appointment with a local dealer some time soon - as soon as I get some time to work on it, and clear other stuff up.
Since getting it back on the road (I had it pretty much back together and buttoned up last year, but only had it insured this spring) we drove it down to Oregon for a little family vacation.
I had a *small* altercation with a curb (I was a total idiot) before our road trip, but a strut assembly from the white car (linked in second last post) saved the day.

I will go over this all again;
I had inspected the fobs, checked those battery connectors that come loose, did both the clear, and add options - so far I could only get the single fob that came with the car to (re)learn.
I haven't tried using the white car's fobs - I am a sentimental guy, and kind wanted to leave the white cars keay/fobs alone... the column is hanging in my garage... but maybe I will try the white car's fobs after re-going through this.
Short of buying a fob tester, I am left guessing that all these fobs have some sort of issue...

Gotcha - thanks again!