Overhead Console Install Instructions

[Skidiver]

When you installed the console on your 03 Regular Cab, where were the bolts you removed to pull down the console? I want to install LEDs to show the placement of the map lights and I don't know how to remove the console on my 2000 Silverado Ext. Cab LT series. Any and all help would be appreciated.
Thanks

[Sick Boy]

There is a screw in the the front. unscrew and wiggle around to get the clips loose

[Williamts99]

Originally Posted by kirkrhughes

I’m going to take apart my Valentine One radar detector and see if I can mount the controls behind the cubby hole cover then put the rest of the detector in the garage door opener space.

If you ever do this, please be sure to take pics, I am thinking of doing this exact thing once I have the money to buy a console. Oh yea, and I send my V1 back to get updated.

[96LoLyfe]

just put in my overhead console, looks great.......it was put in my 96 ecsb, had to cut the headliner out, so i went to the junk yard and got the console and half of the headliner out of a 99 burban to use as a template for $75, lined the headliner piece up and traced the cut outs and then cut it. got an anchor nut from ACE Hardware and glued it to the other side of the hole in the roof, slid the console in the slots for the back and tightened down the front......it's good to go......very easy to do......


FYI......there was another gray overhead console there if anybody is interested, i can get it for you?????? just trying to help my fellow FSC members out.....

[elk_hunter]

Any what any luck getting the map lights to come on with the dome light?

I have a orange and white wire at the dome light. The overhead console has 3 wires. Orange and then 2 black wires, after the connection there is only 2 wires, one of the black wires stops at the connection and does not go through. I have tried everything i can think of, but i can only get the lights to work by pressing the map buttons.

any ideas????

[lowdown]

Originally Posted by elk_hunter

Any what any luck getting the map lights to come on with the dome light?

I have a orange and white wire at the dome light. The overhead console has 3 wires. Orange and then 2 black wires, after the connection there is only 2 wires, one of the black wires stops at the connection and does not go through. I have tried everything i can think of, but i can only get the lights to work by pressing the map buttons.

any ideas????

Anyone that wants to do this, it can be done but if you wire it to come on with your dome light you wont be able to turn it on unless your dome light is on. Also, they wont come on with the dome lights unless the switches are in the on position.

Dome lights work off of a reverse ground system, when you open your door you are not putting power to the light you are completing the ground circuit.

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[Skidiver]

Try connecting the two wires to the wires before they connect to the Map light switches. You have them connected after the switches. I hooked up an LED before the Map light switch and the LED is on all the time. I use it to mark where my Map lights are in the console at night. I hooked a potetiometer to the LED to be able to dim the brightness of the LED. It works great. Good Luck!

[elk_hunter]

Thanks for the info guys.


I have the wires hooked up from the dome light to where the connector is at on the console, I cut of the connector(since i had to run wires from the light to the console). So this is before the map light switch.
I have the ground to the truck(not dome light) and then the + wire from the dome light to the + on the console wire harness.
I have seen other consoles on this board, and on the conosle wire harness there is 3 wires, on my there are only 2 wires, maybe that is the problem, can some look next time yours is down and see where the wires go to inside the console. one wire goes to the switch, and the other goes to the light ...

[badasschevy]

i just got one for 20 bucks out of a surbuban in the junk yard . thers a couple more in there to im looking for a blue one though . but were mounting this one in my buddys s-10 . with a 5 inch tv in the cd part , make it flod all the way down . his bag switches where the a/c controls go . i think it will look nice once were done this weekend

[Big Max]

Where are you folks getting these overhead consoles? My 05 CC has a the short overhead and I want to replace it with the longer one.

TIA

Monte Carlo 406 700R4
05 Sierra 3500 SLE CC 4X4 Dually Duramax/Allison

[Grunmn]

Originally Posted by Big Max

Where are you folks getting these overhead consoles? My 05 CC has a the short overhead and I want to replace it with the longer one.

TIA

Monte Carlo 406 700R4
05 Sierra 3500 SLE CC 4X4 Dually Duramax/Allison

junk/salvage yards or ebay

[Otto]

i just did this and it came out ok. my only problem is finding a way to screw on the front. cant seem to find a screw skinny enough, yet fat enough to grab, and long enough at the same time :arg:

[high_ryda]

Originally Posted by b1u3m3th

Anyone else with a '98 1500 Silverado put an overhead console in? Everything is perfectly fine on mine, except that I can't find the wires to hook up to the lights to save my life! Am I the only one, or did they just decide to play a joke on the 98's?

I've got a '98 Silverado K1500, and I'm about to do the same project, kinda funny I came across this page, I thought I was one of the few who wanted to put in an overhead console. I'll let you know when I start cutting. If you can't find the wire, simply run a 16 - 18 guage wire up through the dash and along the trim, tucked under the front of the headliner and back to the connections of the OH console. All that is only needed if you can't splice into the dome light.

[JoeliusZ28]

this is an excellent write-up, im definitely doing this in the future.

btw, if anyone ever comes across a blue console on ebay or something, i would appreciate an email: joeliusczar890@yahoo.com. I think blue is kinda rare, and I would like to have a factory piece as opposed to having to fab vinyl or use spray paint.

[TIMSPEED]

I would just like to know what's the point of all the compartments on the Overhead Console?
The front (blank spot) is supposed to be where Rear A/C on the Burb's is, right? Then, I don't know what, because the piece is missing on mine, then the garage door opener, right?
I have this in my tahoe (stock), I just need to find if GM has that piece for the first compartment, at the dealership...

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by TIMSPEED

I would just like to know what's the point of all the compartments on the Overhead Console?
The front (blank spot) is supposed to be where Rear A/C on the Burb's is, right? Then, I don't know what, because the piece is missing on mine, then the garage door opener, right?
I have this in my tahoe (stock), I just need to find if GM has that piece for the first compartment, at the dealership...

Yes you can buy the blank panel.

[lowdown]

Originally Posted by TIMSPEED

I would just like to know what's the point of all the compartments on the Overhead Console?
The front (blank spot) is supposed to be where Rear A/C on the Burb's is, right? Then, I don't know what, because the piece is missing on mine, then the garage door opener, right?
I have this in my tahoe (stock), I just need to find if GM has that piece for the first compartment, at the dealership...

There are three compartments, the first one is for your garage door opener or you can get a homelink panel with built in opener. The second one is a compartment for sunglasses or glasses. And the third one is for CDs.

Click here for picture

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[TIMSPEED]

Originally Posted by Izzy

Yes you can buy the blank panel.

Can I buy the piece that covers the Sunglasses compartment? Mine's broken off...

[djc0dy]

Thanks for the write-up. I know its old, but i just started working on my truck and this was my first mod. The only problem is that i wish i had the one with a larger deadspace in the front so i could actually mount something there. Mines basically too small to put anything in there. Pictures are in my gallery if u even care. Oh well, still adds to the interior big time.

[dadngt]

I want an overhead console in my 02 Sierra Reg cab. My dome light is almost centered on the headliner,not in the rear trimlike on my old 89. Could I still be able to add the console, remove the dome light & wire the domelight wires to the consoles map lights? Thanks