GPS says CAL, no GPS signal, no time to full charge
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Sorry. Your description of the problem is too brief for me to grasp it. Could you provide details and the model year of your Volt?
CAL most likely means calibration. Looks like your GPS needs re-calibration. If you suspect a cable issue, consult a service manual for repair/parts. CHILTON has them.
No time for full charge appears if you have a departure time or TOU setting, and the available time is not sufficient to get a full charge.
No time for full charge appears if you have a departure time or TOU setting, and the available time is not sufficient to get a full charge.
Sorry for the sparse details this morning. 2013 model. Is there a cable for the GPS that runs underneath the vehicle?
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Is your onstar light also red?
Look under the dash, far left side where the obd2 port is. The onstar box is there and it has a breakout you'll see the blue gps that goes to the radio/nav and pink? and maroon ( dont remember the colors ) cables that go to the onstar module. Check to see if any of those are loose. They are "kickable"
If you undo the screw above the obd2 port you can drop the module out and the antennae connectors there go to the onstar module and the gps receiver and back out to that splitter. Check those. Although I'd find it very difficult to remove or dislodge them.
Look under the dash, far left side where the obd2 port is. The onstar box is there and it has a breakout you'll see the blue gps that goes to the radio/nav and pink? and maroon ( dont remember the colors ) cables that go to the onstar module. Check to see if any of those are loose. They are "kickable"
If you undo the screw above the obd2 port you can drop the module out and the antennae connectors there go to the onstar module and the gps receiver and back out to that splitter. Check those. Although I'd find it very difficult to remove or dislodge them.
Okay, I have a suggestion. I remember a few years back having an issue where the compass heading at the top of the driver display did not display a heading and might have said CAL some of the time, and there were a couple other indications I can't remember clearly, though probably the OnStar light was not lit (should normally be green).
IIRC I believe it was fuse F9 in the left side of the instrument panel, but look in the fuse blocks (or the manual diagrams of the fuse blocks) for any related to OnStar. With the car off, yank the fuse, wait 10 seconds to a minute, and plug it back in. This should hopefully reset the related module. (I don't have the big maintenance manual (yet), but my impression is that the OnStar module is basically the circuit card of a cell phone that has a GPS chip of some sort on it that they are using for GPS position; anyone who actually knows please correct me if I'm wrong.)
Hope this helps a little.
IIRC I believe it was fuse F9 in the left side of the instrument panel, but look in the fuse blocks (or the manual diagrams of the fuse blocks) for any related to OnStar. With the car off, yank the fuse, wait 10 seconds to a minute, and plug it back in. This should hopefully reset the related module. (I don't have the big maintenance manual (yet), but my impression is that the OnStar module is basically the circuit card of a cell phone that has a GPS chip of some sort on it that they are using for GPS position; anyone who actually knows please correct me if I'm wrong.)
Hope this helps a little.
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This points to a loss of communication between the antenna on the roof and the on-star module. The GPS signal and all other radio transmissions run from the antenna to the on-star and main radio head units. The On-Star modules handles the failed items you listed.
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I'd guess that your On-Star module has failed then.
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In this case you have either a main radio head unit failure or the cable between the on-star module and the radio head unit has disconnected or failed. I'm staying away from thinking it's a BCM (Body Control Module) simply because you haven't reported other issues that would point to the BCM.
So I can try replacing that cable, I just have to figure which one that is then.
https://www.gmpartsonline.net/auto-...-engine/electrical-cat/antenna-and-radio-scat
This page has replacement parts. Thoughts on which one might be the culprit?
https://www.gmpartsonline.net/auto-...-engine/electrical-cat/antenna-and-radio-scat
This page has replacement parts. Thoughts on which one might be the culprit?
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