Add Cruise Control?
- Thread starter buckeyefans
- Start date
rdss
Junior Member
Yes, it's the same exact one in this thread but sold on amazon. There was a member on here, once again I think she posted in here, that had that kit smoke her harness and was offered a deal to get into a Equinox. Others have complained about it not being seen behind the wheel while driving.
I have been monitoring GM progress on this since my last post 6/2012.As of today factory cruise can only be added on the 2013 Sonic.The GM kit part number is 95142086.It consists of a Steering wheel with switch included.This is a plug and play....software is already present.Hopefully a 2012 kit becomes available some time in the future.Whats funny is that GM offers the kit for the 2012-2013 Cruze.That kit requires BCM/IP programming and configuration,Why the 2012 Sonic is not available is a mystery.It would be the same kit as the Cruze.
Well when i contacted GM about adding Remote Start to my car they sent me a link and got it added 3 days later to my car at my local Chevy Dealer and i also asked about getting Cruise Control for my 2012 Chevy Sonic LT and she asked for my VIN again and said "As of right now im not allowed to answer this question and that sometime in the future we will be able to answer that questing about adding Cruise Control to the 2012 Sonics" So who knows if they will have a kit soon, If they tell her she cant answer my question about it then i hope thats a good thing and mean it may come.
Yeah I sure will. I hope its good when they do tell us if we can/cant add Cruise Control. Ive been told from a few people that have Sonics that they did the same thing with the Remote Start Kit before it was able to be added.
I'm yer huckleberry...
Hello all. I am a new member who has purchased a used 2012 1LT with 8400 miles on it. The vehicle did not come with the cruise/connectivity package installed but my dealer will be installing it tomorrow and is at least is 99% confident it will work.
After driving it for a day my wife found paperwork in the glove compartment that seemed to indicate work had been done during the time of the original ownership that the salesman had neglected to disclose. We had intended to just cancel the sale and wash our hands of it but they offered to have that upgrade installed for the price of the parts which will run about $240.00 and charge us $0.00 for the labor.
I brought up many of the questions I had seen in this thread while lurking here yesterday and the service manager was fairly nonplussed by it all. He stated very confidently that it was now possible to do this and a complete steering wheel swap was not needed, only a change in the two areas of the wheel bracing, plus a different wiring harness and of course a flash to update software. I was told it will look and operate exactly as if it had been done as a factory install.
When I asked if it was similar to the method of updating a Cruze he nodded and told me from a wiring and software perspective it would be virtually identical, and the wheel would not need to be changed out complete.
I should know for sure by about this time tomorrow evening if they are successful in accomplishing it. Will post the results as soon as I can.
Fingers crossed that what they are telling me is now an authorized fix for this.
Hello all. I am a new member who has purchased a used 2012 1LT with 8400 miles on it. The vehicle did not come with the cruise/connectivity package installed but my dealer will be installing it tomorrow and is at least is 99% confident it will work.
After driving it for a day my wife found paperwork in the glove compartment that seemed to indicate work had been done during the time of the original ownership that the salesman had neglected to disclose. We had intended to just cancel the sale and wash our hands of it but they offered to have that upgrade installed for the price of the parts which will run about $240.00 and charge us $0.00 for the labor.
I brought up many of the questions I had seen in this thread while lurking here yesterday and the service manager was fairly nonplussed by it all. He stated very confidently that it was now possible to do this and a complete steering wheel swap was not needed, only a change in the two areas of the wheel bracing, plus a different wiring harness and of course a flash to update software. I was told it will look and operate exactly as if it had been done as a factory install.
When I asked if it was similar to the method of updating a Cruze he nodded and told me from a wiring and software perspective it would be virtually identical, and the wheel would not need to be changed out complete.
I should know for sure by about this time tomorrow evening if they are successful in accomplishing it. Will post the results as soon as I can.
Fingers crossed that what they are telling me is now an authorized fix for this.
Ms.DannyStone
Still love it
Tune in again tomorrow night citizens... same Bat time, same Bat channel.
OMG i hope it works.. my sonic NEEDS cruise Control
Eric Smit
Enforcer
rdss
Junior Member
Yes, I really like my Sonic but despise my choice of not ordering my car with the Connectivity Package. All I want is Cruise Control anyway and if this works I will be a happy man.
Eric Smit
Enforcer
rdss
Junior Member
Maybe, if it holds up it might be handed down to my boy. But I doubt it.... I do not seem to keep cars much longer than paying them off. Cruise Control would make the next 5 to 6 years much more enjoyable and it might actually get taken on a road trip.
