Umm... I believe I do not have that problem. But I'd have to double check to make sure. I'm gonna have to get back to you on that one in a little while, because my battery is out of the car right now.

I'm a noob. You can put a 93 se strut tower bar on an 89 se? Would the same thing work only putting it on an 88 sse? I did not do my stereo install though i had a hi-fi buys do it works great steering wheel controls sometimes do something... when you .... pound them :?

Yes you should be able to put the strut tower bar on your '88 SSE with no problem! The bodies of all of the 88 - 91 bonnies are pretty much the same as far as I'm concerned. So whatever fit on my car, should fit on yours! I haven't tried driving my bonnie after I put the strut tower bar on (cost me $10 by the way), but I've heard from a lot of people that it significantly stiffens up the frame, improving the handling dramatically! We'll see.

Did you go with an aftermarket deck, or did you stick to the stock-looking Delco units? I wish I could help you with your problem, but I'm not really an expert on the actual controls themselves. But I do remember a moment about a year back when my Seek button stopped working. Fortunately that went away without me having to do anything, and the controls didn't give me trouble since.

Sorry, I meant '87 - '91 bonnies. Also, if you're out in a junkyard scavanging for parts and you don't see any bonnies, I'm pretty sure that a strut tower bar from an olds Eighty-Eight or a Buick LeSabre ('88 - '93) would work just fine...

Sorry I took so long to reply. I finally got the Bonnie up and running again, and it seems that my climate control display doesn't want to dim. :( This was probably the first time I used the dimmer on my Bonne(I don't usually take it on long trips), so I can't say if it worked before or not. Could the problem be because of my stereo upgrade?

Yes, see:

http://www.bonnevilleclub.com/techinfo/?article=58

However, you should still have the capability to dim with the 93 radio. Did you see a purple/white wire from your radio? If not, it probably came from a car without electronic climate control. Try my procedure in reverse, patching the extra wire in.

Yes. The '93 Bonneville that I took the radio out of didn't have electronic climate control. I'll try your procedure in reverse as soon as I get a chance to.

IMPORTANT: if anyone is interested in doing the deck swap that I have described above, please PM me first! There'* a slight change that has to be made to the procedure in order to keep your climate control'* dimming capability. (I can't post it at the moment, because I need to take apart my dash to remember the way I have the deck wired right now.)

It works! I snipped the 2 wires going to the radio(cd deck)and now the steering wheel controls work!!
Except on my car I had to snip 1 green and the other wire was purple/yellow.