Hatch pulldown retrofit?
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I looked into this when I was adding the front cameras to my 2014. There's a fair amount of wiring involved. But the bigger problem was BCM programming. I don't know for sure if it's possible to have it work correctly with the older BCMs. Will it correctly report that the hatch is closed and cancel the warning on the dash. Stuff like that.
Now that I have a 2017, I can research the data bus messages a little bit better. So if someone was really serious about doing this, I'd be willing to help out with it. Just understand that it's not even remotely a plug and play kind of project.
Now that I have a 2017, I can research the data bus messages a little bit better. So if someone was really serious about doing this, I'd be willing to help out with it. Just understand that it's not even remotely a plug and play kind of project.
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I looked into this when I was adding the front cameras to my 2014. There's a fair amount of wiring involved. But the bigger problem was BCM programming. I don't know for sure if it's possible to have it work correctly with the older BCMs. Will it correctly report that the hatch is closed and cancel the warning on the dash. Stuff like that.
Now that I have a 2017, I can research the data bus messages a little bit better. So if someone was really serious about doing this, I'd be willing to help out with it. Just understand that it's not even remotely a plug and play kind of project.
Now that I have a 2017, I can research the data bus messages a little bit better. So if someone was really serious about doing this, I'd be willing to help out with it. Just understand that it's not even remotely a plug and play kind of project.
.If something was available, I wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel. And since nothing is available, and since I'm not smart enough to invent a new wheel, pretend I didn't ask.
Appreciate your info!
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I love it when people say something like this, but they're still driving a very modern car that's loaded with electronics.
If that red car under your name is your current Corvette, it has 20-25 primary electronic control modules depending on option content, and numerous other lesser subsystems. All of that is apparently just fine. But this hatch pull down, no, that's the one the crosses the line.
If that red car under your name is your current Corvette, it has 20-25 primary electronic control modules depending on option content, and numerous other lesser subsystems. All of that is apparently just fine. But this hatch pull down, no, that's the one the crosses the line.
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I have not seen a thread that showed this was possible. Like Jeff V mentions, I can imagine it would require a lot of work to make it happen.
If it is possible for a retrofit, it sure would be interesting to know how it can be done and at what cost.
If it is possible for a retrofit, it sure would be interesting to know how it can be done and at what cost.
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Granted they (and, about everything else) are rolling 'puters, but that doesn't make adding more and more needless complications any more sensible if one is concerned about reliability and longevity. Just sayin'... 
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