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muting new gm radios

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Printed Date: July 05, 2025 at 7:45 PM


Topic: muting new gm radios

Posted By: hafr
Subject: muting new gm radios
Date Posted: February 14, 2005 at 6:52 PM

hey guys, just wondering if anyone has the info to mute a gm radio in a 04 monte carlo with onstar. Do i need a fancy data buss adapter or is there a mute for the onstar in the headunit plug.

any info would help

rich



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Rich Hawthorne
Hands-Free installations
"don't talk with your hands full"
516-no-hands



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Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: February 15, 2005 at 9:30 AM
OnStar mutes the radio via the class II buss.... what is it exactly you are trying to achieve?

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Kevin Gerry
Certified Electronics Technician
MECP First Class Installer

Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979




Posted By: hafr
Date Posted: February 16, 2005 at 5:27 AM

I have a customer with a cellport300 vr and they want to mute the radio. The kit has a (-) neg out.

just want to mute the radio, but if I need a precission, or blitzsafe piece thats cost in 60 bucks or up, its not worth it. I just wanted to know if there was a wire.

Just a thought. can I relay the output of the kit to ignition on the radio and interupt it? will this cause problems with the databus? I know that the key chimes come through the radio as well.



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Rich Hawthorne
Hands-Free installations
"don't talk with your hands full"
516-no-hands




Posted By: jstruckman
Date Posted: February 16, 2005 at 10:14 AM
Soundgate makes a harness for hands free kits, i think it retails for about 24 bucks or so. It plugs between the radio and the OnStar harness, and then gives you pigtails for audio and neg. mute trip for the hands free kit. If the vehicle does have Onstar you will need two relays to isolate the audio inputs of the Onstar and the handsfree kit, pretty simple to do.

Jazzy

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