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Old Feb 2, 2025 | 11:22 PM
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i have seen that some of you guys have deleted the BCM on your cars.
The one queation i have on that task is how did you operate your doors:
1. are your doors permentaly closed and its window entry
2. or did you come up with another device or system to activate the the door popper?

i have an 05 and i am tired of fighting the BCM/RCDLR crap that was gifted to me from GM. ( i do not count buying 20 year used parts as a solution. )

so i am looking for a way to get around the RCDLR hassle. i could hot wire a system that would activate the door popper, but its the window drop i am still trying to figure out. yes this is a street car. but you guys were the only onse that seemed to have ventured down this road so i was seeing if i could use things you have figured out to remove my RCDLR or even BCM. i am fine going to a standalone system for the ECM and ABS is needed.

any one that has found a way around the window drop door pop issue i would be intereseted in hearing your thoughts

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I use the mechanical releases. Passenger side I have to reach in to pull it, but driver side I routed the emergency release so that it hangs out in the general area of the door handle.

I haven't found any way to remove the rcdlr/bcm in a C6 without going standalone. The PCM will run the engine without the BCM, but you lose your dash and ABS I haven't found it worth going that route with a dedicated aftermarket ECM, Dash, and ABS system


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Old Feb 4, 2025 | 10:29 PM
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thank you
i forgot about the mechanical pulls. . .

ill probably just take the door apart, find the wires to the window and door pop and build a circuit to do it.
not worried about the ECM and gauges or the ABS to be honest. that can all be removed and made to work.
i have two cars now without abs or other such modern safety items, learned to drive long ago without them.

guess i have a project to dig into
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the mechanical pulls work fine, and work without power. Driving without ABS is fine, dual master cylinders etc, but you'll go faster with it than without it and the GM system works well

The C6 isn't like the C5 where you can just break the systems apart, they are tightly integrated with the security module in the RCDLR. I've gutted mine down to nearly nothing but come to terms with living with the RCDLR until it eventually dies and I'm forced to go another way.

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Old Feb 8, 2025 | 05:17 PM
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thank you
that is definitely nuking the problem.
i will keep that as plan B, of my inevitable solution.
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