Stereo issues. 2009 LS

[Therees]

Bought a brand new cobalt around a year ago. and without my knowledge of how painful it would become, i was okay with onstar being in it.

Im trying to put a new head unit in now and im just wondering if i really need the onstar wire harness? i grabbed a cheap one online with no frills but is there any reason i would need the onstar wires if i'm not subscribed to onstar?

thanks for your time.

 

[YelloEye]

For the 09 balts the door chimes run thru the stereo so you will lose those, oh and the turn signal click. But other than that I think everything else still works...oh minus Bluetooth.

 

[Therees]

yeah, thats what i was thinking, just wanted to make sure.

Anyone know of anything else that would be lost?

 

[06balt]

lol some idiot told me at best buy that it would fry my cars computer if i used a normal wireing harness, i havent tryed it yet but i think thats bull

 

[cobalt123]

^your right its bull

 

[newfiedan]

you also lose keyed power with the cheap harness, and retained accessory power use a busmann bp/hhh fusetap to fix the keyed power issue for the deck. Other than that the cheap harness works just fine.

 

[emperorjj1]

shit ur better off without onstar. its stupid that the 5 or whatever expensive harnesses that we've actually sold only one of them even had onstar activated.... i would say cheap harness and ur fine