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Jricharc
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This is the main reason I am not getting the Custom trim level Trail Boss.  I just find it hard to believe that a leather wrapped steering wheel with controls aren't standard on a $40k+ vehicle...

redwngr
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OTOH, it's' hard to believe people buy a $40k+ vehicle without ensuring it has the options that are important to them....

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Dunn Senior Enthusiast

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its a lot easier to add wheels and lift than try and get interior options....and can even make it better than TB

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On 3/18/2019 at 1:49 PM, Ssfrantz5 said:

if you do, post your results i am wanting to do this my self

You can’t just take the cover off as far as I can tell, you basically have to disassemble the stirring wheel...

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On 3/11/2019 at 11:45 AM, Jricharc said:

This is the main reason I am not getting the Custom trim level Trail Boss.  I just find it hard to believe that a leather wrapped steering wheel with controls aren't standard on a $40k+ vehicle...

OTOH, it's' hard to believe people buy a $40k+ vehicle without ensuring it has the options that are important to them....

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AlohaDan Enthusiast

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I bought a 2019 Work Truck and after speaking to the dealer and reading as much as I could find online, seems that adding audio controls to the steering wheel is not possible.  I was told that even if I could add the buttons to the steering wheel or change the steering wheel to one that has audio controls, the necessary wiring doesn't exist in the wiring harness for the WT.   Oh, well.. so be it!   But, if anyone learns anything different, please post.

Dunn Senior Enthusiast

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so custom TB doesn't have anything behind the wheel for volume and channel changing....I know they have plate on face of wheel on right side that normally does phone and cluster.....but no paddles behind wheel on both sides either?

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Surely, if you purchase the audio control switch and find the right harness it will work. It is my understanding that they all are made the same from the factory.Besides that, many 1500 and 2500 parts are interchangeable.  It's  the  electrical wiring, packages  and features that they add later is  what makes a Lt, a Lt and a high country High Country. Almost any feature can be later added. However, most of the time a harness is needed to make it work. I just purchased the 2020 Silverado  HD  tow mirrors and had the dealer install them on my 2019 work truck.It needed an additional harness to make the turn signal and lightening work.I too purchased the work truck and slowly added factory add ons as I go.The fog lights , the bed lights, console cover, and tow mirrors has been added.Doing  this way I've save a ton of money.Kinda, pay as you go without the finance . Besides that, it makes the truck unique. People are constantly asking me,  is your truck a 2500.

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On 1/15/2020 at 3:52 PM, Pdubb Pdubb said:

Surely, if you purchase the audio control switch and find the right harness it will work. It is my understanding that they all are made the same from the factory.Besides that, many 1500 and 2500 parts are interchangeable.  It's  the  electrical wiring, packages  and features that they add later is  what makes a Lt, a Lt and a high country High Country. Almost any feature can be later added. However, most of the time a harness is needed to make it work. I just purchased the 2020 Silverado  HD  tow mirrors and had the dealer install them on my 2019 work truck.It needed an additional harness to make the turn signal and lightening work.I too purchased the work truck and slowly added factory add ons as I go.The fog lights , the bed lights, console cover, and tow mirrors has been added.Doing  this way I've save a ton of money.Kinda, pay as you go without the finance . Besides that, it makes the truck unique. People are constantly asking me,  is your truck a 2500.

As a fellow 2019 Work truck owner, I'd love to learn more about your upgrades and how you accomplished them.     I would really be interested in what it would take to add a different wiring harness that would allow for audio controls on the steering wheel.  Seems like a dealer would charge arm and a leg in labor to change the harness, let alone the cost of the harness itself.  The dealer told me that the actual head unit (infotainment unit) in the work truck was not set up to handle the steering wheel audio control switch.  Not sure if that's true as it seems strange that they would produce a different head unit just for the work truck, but who knows.  

Dunn Senior Enthusiast

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On 3/11/2019 at 8:45 AM, Jricharc said:

This is the main reason I am not getting the Custom trim level Trail Boss.  I just find it hard to believe that a leather wrapped steering wheel with controls aren't standard on a $40k+ vehicle...

same feeling i had when i looked at one.....i was so so close to buying one

 

lack of storage really killed it, by the time i added what i wanted to inside be cheaper to just do the lift and wheels and lot less headache....

 

but totally get why people buy em….its bitchin truck just very basic

Goobax Enthusiast

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Came here hoping to find good news but looks like this still hasn't been done just yet. Has it actually been tried and confirmed to not work or just the dealer saying they haven't done it so it "can't" be done?

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A member has swapped the steering with with an LT model and this did NOT work. The steering wheel controls run through the instrument cluster and ultimately to the radio module, so either (or both) of those may need to be changed. There may be a harness issue as well. So as much as it sucks, we're probably just stuck without steering wheel controls. I've learned to live with it. 

 

Dunn Senior Enthusiast

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the clusters are totally different and right side steering wheel controls control the cluster along with phone, paddles behind adjust radio

Goobax Enthusiast

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On 1/27/2020 at 10:59 AM, Method2Madness said:

A member has swapped the steering with with an LT model and this did NOT work. The steering wheel controls run through the instrument cluster and ultimately to the radio module, so either (or both) of those may need to be changed. There may be a harness issue as well. So as much as it sucks, we're probably just stuck without steering wheel controls. I've learned to live with it. 

 

The instrument cluster can be swapped fairly easy though from WAMS so if that can be done then in theory adding the LTZ wheel with the right harness "should" work no? only thing I can think of is if the IOR radio just has no functionality to have the steering wheel controls. Who knows though. I will probably just bite the bullet and try here in a month or two and worse case scenario I end up with a nicer steering wheel and cluster.

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