Update: found this connector online after much research. This should work. Goes into the radio and is split to take 9 pin factory harness , as well as 9 pin from cassette player.
https://radiosandmore.com/prodDet.aspx?pid=LD-0014
Hey,
not sure what to do here or if there is anything that can be done, but figured I'd check here before I started sending things back from where I bought them and just giving in. Basically, I have a trove of cassettes from the 80's and 90's and wanted to play them in my 02 Z71. My avalanche has a stock CD/radio with Onstar and with no remote (cassette) at the spot where such things are usually at in that year Chevy trucks. I bought a cassette player from 1factoryradio.com and bought the connecting wire for a remote setup from Ebay. My area where the remote would go is just trimmed out as a "cubby" and has never had a factory remote in that spot.
The 9 pin plug at the back of my radio, where my new remote setup was to plug in, was not vacant as I though it might be. I have a 9 pin plug and a 24 pin plug in the back of my radio. Both are being utilized by the factory harness and I noticed when the 9 pin is unplugged, to plug in the new remote setup, the speakers won't work. I also notice that if you just unplug the 9 pin (and not even plug anything there) the speakers don't work. So, this seems to be telling me that the 9 pin at the radio (when Onstar is involved), are the speakers themselves, and maybe if Onstar was not on board, then that 9 pin spot would be vacant and all this should be working as I was told it would at 1factoryradio.com? So anyway, can someone tell me what is going on exactly and if there is a work around for all this? Needless to say, the Onstar is analog and useless.
https://radiosandmore.com/prodDet.aspx?pid=LD-0014
Hey,
not sure what to do here or if there is anything that can be done, but figured I'd check here before I started sending things back from where I bought them and just giving in. Basically, I have a trove of cassettes from the 80's and 90's and wanted to play them in my 02 Z71. My avalanche has a stock CD/radio with Onstar and with no remote (cassette) at the spot where such things are usually at in that year Chevy trucks. I bought a cassette player from 1factoryradio.com and bought the connecting wire for a remote setup from Ebay. My area where the remote would go is just trimmed out as a "cubby" and has never had a factory remote in that spot.
The 9 pin plug at the back of my radio, where my new remote setup was to plug in, was not vacant as I though it might be. I have a 9 pin plug and a 24 pin plug in the back of my radio. Both are being utilized by the factory harness and I noticed when the 9 pin is unplugged, to plug in the new remote setup, the speakers won't work. I also notice that if you just unplug the 9 pin (and not even plug anything there) the speakers don't work. So, this seems to be telling me that the 9 pin at the radio (when Onstar is involved), are the speakers themselves, and maybe if Onstar was not on board, then that 9 pin spot would be vacant and all this should be working as I was told it would at 1factoryradio.com? So anyway, can someone tell me what is going on exactly and if there is a work around for all this? Needless to say, the Onstar is analog and useless.