Oem Navigation With Factory Installed Rearview Mirror Camera

[lilbub71]

I just bought a 2011 LTZ Silverado with the camera system in the rearview mirror. I was looking for a truck with the navigation system but there wasn't one that I like within 700 miles so the dealer said I could upgrade the stereo to the Nav system and the camera would probably end up showing the image in both the rearview mirror AND the nav system. So I paid the bundle of $$ for the upgrade and they installed it today. About 30 mins before they were done they told me they probably couldn't get the camera system to work in the nav system "but it's ok because the mirror camera still works". I told them that I'm not paying that much $$ to only get a subpar GPS system. They finally relented and are looking into a solution. They told me that the GM website says the conversion will work but when the tech called to get some support they said it won't work. I'm having a very hard time understanding how a factory installed camera system can't work with an OEM upgrade? Wouldn't it be the same wiring and connections if it came from the factory with the nav system as it does with the rearview mirror system? Couldn't they just unplug it from the mirror and plug it into the nav system? When I put it in reverse the mirror camera work and the new nav system is black and says "check your surroundings" and I made sure the everything was turned on. Has anybody else come across this issue? Thanks for your input!!

[AGT]

Sounds like only the video input itself is not being fed to the navigation system. Like the need to split the video signal or just route it solely to the navi. Odd but when I think of how GM stock radio units are and how they don't switch out easy at all, it makes sense that the tech can't figre it out.

[5829BMG]

The truck is harnessed for the rear mirror video. You'll have to intercept the video feed and reroute it to the back of the Navi unit.

[ATXSerria]

I say make the dealership take it to a custom audio place that knows what they are doing. It should be an easy splice to your mirror and the nav unit.

[lilbub71]

This is what the guy at justanswer.com told me.....I think that's a huge mistake that GM made. Why would they make it impossible to upgrade with their OEM products installed by their technicians? And why wouldn't the 5 people at the dealership that I have been dealing with tell me this stuff?

 

sorry, If the 2011 came with "just" the Mirror type, it will NOT work with the added NAV Unit, as it requires a different Harness for the NAV Unit

I have done a number of these & GM does not have nor a adapter Harness for the needed swap as yet

 

The problem is not only the harness but the "programming" of the Camera into the NAV Unit

All components go thru the BCM (body control module). If the BCM that came with your truck does not support the NAV type Camera, then it can't be done

 

This is not unusual, as GM is trying very hard to make any changes almost impossible without Factory complete systems (harness, modules, components, programming & BCM)

[mjg62]

To my knowledge the camera system on the trucks use two wires for video and get the power and reverse signal from the bcm. You should be able to run the video feed from the bcm to the HU for the image I believe. Your HU is set up to take the signal if you see (Check Surroundings) warning. Also you can turn that screen off from the menu if you like.

 

Agreed It's damn shame that after dropping that kind of cash for an upgrade GM can't make it to where all its capabilties will function.

[SchramAutoParts]

This is what the guy at justanswer.com told me.....I think that's a huge mistake that GM made. Why would they make it impossible to upgrade with their OEM products installed by their technicians? And why wouldn't the 5 people at the dealership that I have been dealing with tell me this stuff?

 

sorry, If the 2011 came with "just" the Mirror type, it will NOT work with the added NAV Unit, as it requires a different Harness for the NAV Unit

I have done a number of these & GM does not have nor a adapter Harness for the needed swap as yet

 

The problem is not only the harness but the "programming" of the Camera into the NAV Unit

All components go thru the BCM (body control module). If the BCM that came with your truck does not support the NAV type Camera, then it can't be done

 

This is not unusual, as GM is trying very hard to make any changes almost impossible without Factory complete systems (harness, modules, components, programming & BCM)

 

I don't think that when they are building the truck they do it with the intention of people upgrading things. They try to make them work as best as they possibly can, then crafty people work backwards to figure out how to upgrade their vehicles as cheap as they can. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's why the dealership probably didn't tell you. They didn't know, and it's not like there is a place they can go to find out.