2019 Silverado Swap Digital Speedometer Denali

[fotomatt1]

How hard is the actual physical swap? Does anything need to be done with the odometer so it is accurate?


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[FiatDale]

Mileage is stored in the BCM now instead of the cluster so it will show up automatically

[Josh11]

1 hour ago, fotomatt1 said:

How hard is the actual physical swap? Does anything need to be done with the odometer so it is accurate?


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The actual swap is not so complicated but radio will have to be removed

[fotomatt1]

On 7/22/2019 at 9:27 AM, Josh11 said:

The actual swap is not so complicated but radio will have to be removed

how come the radio needs to be removed to change the instrument cluster?

[Thomcat]

On 7/18/2019 at 3:27 PM, Josh11 said:

I was successfully able to swap out my Speedometer on my 2019 Silverado to the digital Cluster from a 19 Sierra Denali thanks to White Automotive & Media Services. It took a bit of effort to get to cluster out but looks Great. Highly recommended the swap

Does the blank white speed sign on the left show then current speed limit for the road as the car is traveling?

 

Otherwise, the Denali cluster shown doesn't interface 100% with the Silverado DIC settings. That blank white sign with the two dashes is the posted speed limit sign for the current road. Interfaces with the factory Nav system in the vehicle and can be shown along the mph in the cluster or hidden and shown in a separate info screen. Personally I find it annoying and move it to a separate info screen and the tiny mph figures enlarge accordingly to fill the space.

 

 

Updated the Traverse factory Nav and one of the posted speed limits also changed on the icon indicating it feeds off the Nav software and not the satellite antenna (may work with OnStar subscription? but you still need the settings in the DIC.. Unless an LTZ, no factory Navs in the '19 and no pages in the DIC for showing it or placing it on the screen

[Daverado]

20 hours ago, Thomcat said:

Does the blank white speed sign on the left show then current speed limit for the road as the car is traveling?

 

Otherwise, the Denali cluster shown doesn't interface 100% with the Silverado DIC settings. That blank white sign with the two dashes is the posted speed limit sign for the current road. Interfaces with the factory Nav system in the vehicle and can be shown along the mph in the cluster or hidden and shown in a separate info screen. Personally I find it annoying and move it to a separate info screen and the tiny mph figures enlarge accordingly to fill the space.

 

Updated the Traverse factory Nav and one of the posted speed limits also changed on the icon indicating it feeds off the Nav software and not the satellite antenna (may work with OnStar subscription? but you still need the settings in the DIC.. Unless an LTZ, no factory Navs in the '19 and no pages in the DIC for showing it or placing it on the screen

 

The speed limit data is always provided by the map, not by the satellite signal.  GPS satellites don't know or care where you are, they only know where they are, and broadcast beacons that tell your GPS computer what time it is where the satellite is.  Your GPS computer times beacons from multiple satellites to triangulate where you are and place your position onto a pretty map provided by your SD card.  Without a map you can only know your location in latitude/longitude/elevation.  Hiking GPSs are useful this way because they can still track you and backtrack you out even when the place you're at isn't on any map.  The more satellites you can receive signals from, the better your computer will be able to calculate your precise position.

 

Two dashes means at the time the map was assembled for your device data on the speed limit for your current road segment wasn't available, or was trimmed out to save storage on the map media.  I see it often enough on a truck that came with the high cluster, nothing to do with the retrofit I assume.

 

-Daver

Edited July 29, 2019 by Daverado

[OnTheReel]

Same here, half the roads in town don’t show speed limits. And the other half are often outdated / inaccurate. Not a great feature but I do leave it displayed in HUD because something has to fill that space.

 

There isn’t any functional difference between the GMC and Chevy uplevel clusters. But because you cannot get that cluster without nav, I’m curious if the speed limit sign is just permanently there and empty on the home screen if the truck has IOR or IOS (non-upgraded to IOT) infotainment.

 

With the midlevel (small screen) cluster, navigation trucks get do get the speed limit signs and nav page. But non-nav trucks don’t have the empty sign sitting there all the time because there are two different cluster “display modes”, if you will, depending upon the infotainment installed.

 

If the uplevel cluster doesn’t have a “display mode” for a non-nav truck, presumably those upgrading to this cluster will be stuck looking at empty speed limit signs on the home page unless they have IOT or an upgraded IOS system?

[GTPprix]

1 hour ago, OnTheReel said:

Same here, half the roads in town don’t show speed limits. And the other half are often outdated / inaccurate. Not a great feature but I do leave it displayed in HUD because something has to fill that space.

 

There isn’t any functional difference between the GMC and Chevy uplevel clusters. But because you cannot get that cluster without nav, I’m curious if the speed limit sign is just permanently there and empty on the home screen if the truck has IOR or IOS (non-upgraded to IOT) infotainment.

 

With the midlevel (small screen) cluster, navigation trucks get do get the speed limit signs and nav page. But non-nav trucks don’t have the empty sign sitting there all the time because there are two different cluster “display modes”, if you will, depending upon the infotainment installed.

 

If the uplevel cluster doesn’t have a “display mode” for a non-nav truck, presumably those upgrading to this cluster will be stuck looking at empty speed limit signs on the home page unless they have IOT or an upgraded IOS system?

So in the past (for dealers) we have always set them up as IOT so that if you had an IOS system and upgraded or an IOR and went full on crazy and redid it all you wouldn't have to send the cluster back. We have reversed that for consumers as it was a bit annoying with IOR to have menus that didnt do anything so unless you EXPLICITLY say (which reminds me we need to add that to the website!) you want to upgrade later we are programming them exactly for your AS BUILT config so everything matches and you dont have unused menus. 

[Josh11]

On 7/28/2019 at 3:40 PM, fotomatt1 said:

how come the radio needs to be removed to change the instrument cluster?

The radio trim with leather sits on top of the trim that goes around the speedometer that’s why it needs to be removed 

[Josh11]

1 hour ago, OnTheReel said:

Same here, half the roads in town don’t show speed limits. And the other half are often outdated / inaccurate. Not a great feature but I do leave it displayed in HUD because something has to fill that space.

 

There isn’t any functional difference between the GMC and Chevy uplevel clusters. But because you cannot get that cluster without nav, I’m curious if the speed limit sign is just permanently there and empty on the home screen if the truck has IOR or IOS (non-upgraded to IOT) infotainment.

 

With the midlevel (small screen) cluster, navigation trucks get do get the speed limit signs and nav page. But non-nav trucks don’t have the empty sign sitting there all the time because there are two different cluster “display modes”, if you will, depending upon the infotainment installed.

 

If the uplevel cluster doesn’t have a “display mode” for a non-nav truck, presumably those upgrading to this cluster will be stuck looking at empty speed limit signs on the home page unless they have IOT or an upgraded IOS system?

Correct most roads don’t have the speed limit updated but the white sign can always be removed in settings if that bothers you

[Jim165]

BMW service loaner I had had the speed limit display feature and used actual cameras to read signs. It was slick and very accurate. I would think GM could implement something similar and use it across all cars..

[Fuelie]

On 7/19/2019 at 6:18 AM, FiatDale said:

Nice. I just got my cluster in, time to send to WAM.

Where did you get yours? I am having a hard time even finding a new one.

Tom

[Semedar]

Is there an instrument cluster that’s compatible with my super basic base one? I have an IOR 7” infotainment as well. And have the part number for it?

[xtremevol]

Interested in doing this, but can't seem to find any HC clusters or Denali for that matter.  Anyone got any leads on a HC one?

[Fuelie]

On 8/20/2019 at 8:29 AM, xtremevol said:

Interested in doing this, but can't seem to find any HC clusters or Denali for that matter.  Anyone got any leads on a HC one?

Same here

Tom