That's great that you got it fixed. Just hurts my problem even more. I have checked my amp. I took it out and put in a friends 03 and it works great. I put his in mine and nothing,

 

your headunit turns on and everything? there may be a fuse for the amp itself, check all fuses and go from there if you havent already

 

Yeah head unit is working. CheckED all the fuses and wires. All i can think of now is maybe the bcm. But there is no other problem so i don't know about the bcm.

 

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TJ35... before you do anything else... I would recommend pausing and just drive the car into a GM dealership for diagnostics... When I was researching my Monte's stereo problem, I stopped into one of my local dealers and spoke with the Service Manager about the issues.

During this conversation, they hadn't experienced many of these sound failures, however... the Manager recalled having one customer that had some really freaky sound issues that mimicked mine. In the example he cited to me... he explained the "other customer" had a Chevy Silverado pickup truck with the premium sound system like ours and it began losing sound. When they brought the truck in for diagnostics and the Service Technicians began to research the problem, they learned about a "revised" software patch that was available for the audio/information system that could be installed. He wasn't very detailed or specific when talking about it with me, but the software patch was available from GM as a downloadable install using the diagnostics equipment. In this example, the software patch corrected this particular customer's stereo problems and the Manager told me it sounded almost identical to what I had been describing with mine at the time.

Before you lose patience or spend needless money - just take the car for diagnostics. The factory stereo receivers in our Monte's are also programmed to be VIN number specific, so you can't merely swap an identical receiver out of another Monte without taking the used unit to the Dealership for custom programming anyway.

Even though you are seeing perfect LCD displays on your recevier display, it doesn't necessarily mean you unit is working properly. It could very well be experiencing a failed receiver. If your stereo reciever has failed, GM has a rebuild program for these factory stereos. You'rs gets removed and replaced with a factory rebuilt unit and the part price is around $225 for the premium system ~ regardless of what has failed inside your old unit... I'm not sure what the diagnostics & labor cost, but I recall the ball-park amount being much less than I had been fearing.

When this takes place, the dealership technicians re-program the replacment stereo receiver to match your car's ECM computer serial number and the car's VIN number. This is a design deterent to reduce the proliferation of "chop shops" in the larger metro cities.

Just take the car to a reputable dealer... you already know it's not the amp or fuses, so there's not much else you can do on your own without chasing your tail, bumping yer head, smashing yer fingers and utlitmately wanting to jump off a bridge in frustration... take it from me... been there!

 

Do you still have this amp and how much do you want for it? I have the same problems - 2001 MC SS - no sound.

 

My dealer never heard of the problem itself.

I've had the BCM replaced since the car died and they worked and worked to get the radio to work to no avail. If you could get your dealer to share that "reset" information, it sure would be helpful.

 

My 2003 ss sound went out about a few weeks ago and came on here to see if anyone knew what the issues was and found this post. Thanks