VSS Wire 2007 Pontiac Solstice GXP....is it necessary

Posted Apr 21, 2007 · 02:02 UTC#1

Greetings all...I am confused by some of the posts. Avic-D3 install. The vehicle has the speed sensative radio volume....is hooking up the VSS wire necessary? If it needs to be hooked up, then wire color and location would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

vtail

Posted Apr 21, 2007 · 02:09 UTC#2

It's not absolutely needed. It'll imporve the accuracy slightly, and some of the vehicle dynamics will only work with it connected. As for where to get it in your car, you have 2 options.

1 Go to a wheel speed sensor. There's 2 wires there, pick one and tap it. If it doesn't register, then you picked the wrong wire, tap the other one.

2. Get a databus interface for your car. The speed pulse is sent over the vehicle's databus system.

Posted Apr 28, 2007 · 19:31 UTC#3

Please forgive my ignorance but...is the Metra GMOS-Lan-04 considered a databus interface? I do have this for my system. I'm installing early next week. Thanks for any additional information.

Regards,

vtail

Posted Apr 29, 2007 · 03:34 UTC#4

Yes is it, it'll make your life alot easier. It may even give you a useable vss wire too. Though I can't be 100% on that one, since I don't really remember.

Posted Apr 29, 2007 · 12:04 UTC#5

Thanks cntrylvr79 for the info!

vtail