Overhead console blank plate

Badger · July 23, 2001

I have the 01 Silverado ExtCab 4dr LS with the cloth interior and overhead console minus the digital compass/fuel calculator like my wifes Astro has. Any ideas for that space? Cost to put the compass/temp/fuel gauge in from the factory?? Curious...

LT · July 23, 2001

Yah, I know what you mean. about the blank space. Our Bravada has a bunch of reads in that place. On my truck, Onstar is packed into that space so I cant really get anything in there. Any one else done anything with that space?

MountaineerTom · July 23, 2001

I put the display for my cd changer up there. Here's some pics. http://tommy3z71.homestead.com/cd_changer.html The changer has a wireless remote with it. I got it in '95 and originally had it in my '91 Silverado. I fabricated a new panel out of a piece of balsa wood. I wanted to use the original plastic panel, but couldn't order a new one from the dealer without getting a whole center console. I didn't want to cut a hole in the only one I had incase I ever took out the changer. I'm going to try and find one in a salvage yard one of these days.

I had originally thought of some switches in case I added some lights sometime in the future.

Good luck.

(Edited by MountaineerTom 99Z71 at 10:30 pm on July 22, 2001)

Badger · July 23, 2001

Some good ideas. I like the center console, but it just doesn't contain the functionality that I would like to have. I don't have a garage door to open, sunglasses to carry or the need for a little tissue box. It would be nice to have a hide-a-way radar detector spot or some other neat item in the overhead.

Pastmaster · July 24, 2001

You might be able to find aftermarket compass or temp guage to fit in a space like that. And if you can't you can buy the complete mirror from a place like www.jcwhitney.com for something like ?.

pacodiablo · July 24, 2001

Quote: from MountaineerTom 99Z71 on 10:28 pm on July 22, 2001
I put the display for my cd changer up there. Here's some pics. http://tommy3z71.homestead.com/cd_changer.html The changer has a wireless remote with it. I got it in '95 and originally had it in my '91 Silverado. I fabricated a new panel out of a piece of balsa wood. I wanted to use the original plastic panel, but couldn't order a new one from the dealer without getting a whole center console. I didn't want to cut a hole in the only one I had incase I ever took out the changer. I'm going to try and find one in a salvage yard one of these days.

I had originally thought of some switches in case I added some lights sometime in the future.

Good luck.

(Edited by MountaineerTom 99Z71 at 10:30 pm on July 22, 2001)

thats a good idea. i should try that in one of my trucks.