How-To: Heated Steering Wheel Install GMT900 Sierra.

[mclovin109]

i have a 2011 tahoe ssv. (police). it has lights and sirens installed as well as a viper remote start system by previous owner so dont know wiring details from the install. i bought the harness from @Zebrafive (thanks), a steering wheel from a junkyard escalade, and a new SIR from ebay. first problem was the empty slot that the harness  for the heat was supposed to go to already had something there. maybe something to do with the viper system or the emergency equipment. i unplugged it to experiment and plugged in the harness from zebrafive and reconnected everything. the controls all worked (volume, cruise etc) but the heating icon wouldn't light up and had a message on dash about service trailer brake. i disconnected the heating harness and plugged what ever was there originally back in but im still getting the service trailer brake message. any ideas? thanks

[tigers2007]

Is it possible to use a steering wheel from a Buick Lucerne or Cadillac DTS as they look the same? Or are there differences in the steering shaft and wiring? Should I stick to the trucks instead (Denali, Chev LTZ, Esky, etc) when searching for a wheel?

[ajevan21]

Good write up but your step of grounding the wire with a home made harness makes no sense. You show a harness consisting of a 2 pin and just one single orange and one single black wire, you then show 2 black wires being grounded. Where did the other black wire come from? And then you hardly show where you place the hot wire and none of them are orange. I have everything I need but that home made harness. But I saw another guy selling them with another pin connector on the other end where you just have free hanging wires. What’s the difference?

 

@Trav_13