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Originally Posted by Rocky1974
This is the radio section from the 2013 Camaro Parts Catalog
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If it doesn’t do CD's, what’s item #5? They call it a navigation map disk, in the description. I'm not sure what you would need this for, if the maps are on a SD card. If this diagram is accurate, and I'm assuming it is since it's from GM's own 2013 Camaro Parts Catalog, it kind of takes away Fbodfather’s argument that they left the CD player out for packaging reasons. |
Now we need a GM engineer to help us out here......
As a 15 year veteran of mobile car fi repair and installation, there is a very strong possibly that the head unit does in fact have a disc player inside with a possibility for firmware upgrades on disc by technicians who would then know how to remove the bezel to do firmware upgrades via DVD ROM. Which is what I surmise to be part# 5 on the diagram, the firmware DVD ROM. I have seen things like this before. For whatever reason, GM has chosen to keep the disc player from playing a standard audio CD, (even though ANY AND EVERY disc player on planet earth can play a simple audio CD). Then GM may have designed the front bezel trim without the CD slot to prevent people from trying to play a CD.
One simple, cheap, and perfect solution to this would have been to have engineers program the software of the GUI to simply bring up simple CD player functions and disc info on the display when a disc is entered.
I would even submit to all you guys who like to get into the guts of computer software that there may in fact be a way to reprogram this to play a disc. Crack a code so to speak.... you'd be surprised what you can do when you get into the software of modern cars. And then all you'd need to do is cut a slot into the plastic front bezel and you have your CD player!