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TJay74
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*** UPDATE ***   Back from the dealer, engineers did as I thought and had a flashed module with them. Just had to wait on it to be installed and paired to my VIN and we were off on the road test.  

TJay74
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Ok, just got off of the phone with the Chief Engineer and 2 infotainment engineers. GM is waiting on the infotainment vendor to finish their side of the update, they have to tes the update out and are

bladz1454
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NEW 2014 GMC Sierra has HORRIBLE Radio/HD Radio reception. There was a pretty long post about this before with a good amount of people on it. I've concluded they are pushing XM so hard that they mad

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whoa shots fired lol

 

None intended. Wasn't meant to come off that way.

Just that he mentioned no fix and GM working on it. I'm assuming it's what TJay is involved in.

tnchevy Senior Enthusiast

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I was due for an oil change last week so I took mine in to get that and the loud door chime thing fixed and had planned on bringing up the radio but didn't. The service manager had a hard enough time trying to understand what I was telling her about the door chime and I had to walk them through it with information from the door chime thread so I just skipped the bad radio part. The fix to my door chime also reset all of the settings for the radio and erased all stored stations. I've got a year and a half left on my warranty but I do not have high hopes that this bad FM reception will ever get fixed.

chuckl1218 Senior Enthusiast

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I was due for an oil change last week so I took mine in to get that and the loud door chime thing fixed and had planned on bringing up the radio but didn't. The service manager had a hard enough time trying to understand what I was telling her about the door chime and I had to walk them through it with information from the door chime thread so I just skipped the bad radio part. The fix to my door chime also reset all of the settings for the radio and erased all stored stations. I've got a year and a half left on my warranty but I do not have high hopes that this bad FM reception will ever get fixed.

Yup, any time they updated my radio software, it got reset. But your radio will never get fixed if you don't start the process by mentioning it. Updates are not applied unless they are addressing a specific problem...

Jesse Davidson Enthusiast

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None intended. Wasn't meant to come off that way.

Just that he mentioned no fix and GM working on it. I'm assuming it's what TJay is involved in.

haha no worries, I believe they already said that the fix didn't wok though

WLC Enthusiast

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Took grandson to school today,and zero I mean zero FM reception!!

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Talked on the GMC complaint chat line and voiced(typed) my complaints about the FM radio reception. The took my contact info. See what happens.

Jesse Davidson Enthusiast

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Talked on the GMC complaint chat line and voiced(typed) my complaints about the FM radio reception. The took my contact info. See what happens.

I can tell you.... Been there already, they won't do anything for you

chuckl1218 Senior Enthusiast

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So I have been reading this thread and watching the internet for a fix for my poor radio reception of my 2014 1500 Silverado.

 

I did come across this today. Wondering if this is what I am waiting for.

 

http://gm.oemdtc.com/562/poor-fm-radio-reception-2014-2015-chevrolet-silverado-gmc-sierra

 

Has anybody did this fix yet that has poor radio reception? Did it solve it?

Not sure, but it sounds like PI1288a that was done to my truck. There have been varied results. Mine is much better after both hardware and software replacement. Others' results have not been as good.

Jesse Davidson Enthusiast

Jesse Davidson

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So I have been reading this thread and watching the internet for a fix for my poor radio reception of my 2014 1500 Silverado.

 

I did come across this today. Wondering if this is what I am waiting for.

 

http://gm.oemdtc.com/562/poor-fm-radio-reception-2014-2015-chevrolet-silverado-gmc-sierra

 

Has anybody did this fix yet that has poor radio reception? Did it solve it?

Yes, I've had it done... well attempted to. my software was up to date so it didn't matter, the dealer can't reprogram it.

 

Not sure, but it sounds like PI1288a that was done to my truck. There have been varied results. Mine is much better after both hardware and software replacement. Others' results have not been as good.

I believe it is that one

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Yes, I've had it done... well attempted to. my software was up to date so it didn't matter, the dealer can't reprogram it.

 

I believe it is that one

Thx Jesse, Well I checked my software as it says on that site and it is older (000477). So I am going to get the update. Not sure if I get the hardware as I do not have the tool to check it out.

 

I am hoping it fixes it for me. Frustrating that I have trouble picking up local radio stations less than 30 miles away but my 2010 Camaro(does not have an external antenna) got it.

glcbn Enthusiast

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Thx Jesse, Well I checked my software as it says on that site and it is older (000477). So I am going to get the update. Not sure if I get the hardware as I do not have the tool to check it out.

 

I am hoping it fixes it for me. Frustrating that I have trouble picking up local radio stations less than 30 miles away but my 2010 Camaro(does not have an external antenna) got it.

 

Normally, if your truck was built in 2013, it will need the hardware changed also. I said normally, because there have been exceptions to this.

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Thx Jesse, Well I checked my software as it says on that site and it is older (000477). So I am going to get the update. Not sure if I get the hardware as I do not have the tool to check it out.

 

I am hoping it fixes it for me. Frustrating that I have trouble picking up local radio stations less than 30 miles away but my 2010 Camaro(does not have an external antenna) got it.

haha I know the feeling, I've been in Boston/Cambridge which is where the stations are broadcast from, and they still sound like shit. yet a 15 year old A/V receiver with a speaker wire antenna in my half underground basement can get them no problem and thats about 25 miles away.

 

 

Normally, if your truck was built in 2013, it will need the hardware changed also. I said normally, because there have been exceptions to this.

i believe that is correct, mine is a 15 build in 14 though, so unfortunately it doesnt help me

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