Audio question
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5th Gear
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From: Cary NC
Audio question
I read all the posts,etc in audio on this. I am replacing the Bose with a Kenwood receiver and speakers. The problem comes in with references to Red and Yellow wires when eliminating the factory receiver. There is NO Red and Yellow wire in or out of my receiver. I am looking to find out what is up here? If I look at the factory wiring diagram from the service manual, it also does not have a Red and Yellow. Also, there are 2 blue wires, which one is the antenna? As described in the audio stuff, there is a bit of a mismatch here. I really do not want to test everything, since it was already a pain to run the speaker wires and replace the speakers
. Any help appreciated....
. Any help appreciated....
Melting Slicks
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From: 1993 Quasar Blue 'vert Scottsdale AZ
I hope that you are replacing the entire system. Head unit, wires and speakers. I installed an Alpine unit with an adaptor to use the Bose speakers and it sucks bigtime. I'm not a Kenwood fan, but that's because they make such crappy home stereos. I hope that the car stereos are better.
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From: Yonkers NY
Aftermarket Installation
The red and Yellow wires you are looking for are not plugged into the stock Bose head unit. They're in one of the power harnesses that's plugged into the stock Bose amp (which you need to bypass in your aftermarket install).
Depending on the year of your car, it is either located up under the passenger side of the dash (a PITA to get to, but do-able) or under the bin storage area behind the passenger seat.
Depending on the year of your car, it is either located up under the passenger side of the dash (a PITA to get to, but do-able) or under the bin storage area behind the passenger seat.
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From: Cary NC
Originally Posted by richiep
The red and Yellow wires you are looking for are not plugged into the stock Bose head unit. They're in one of the power harnesses that's plugged into the stock Bose amp (which you need to bypass in your aftermarket install).
Depending on the year of your car, it is either located up under the passenger side of the dash (a PITA to get to, but do-able) or under the bin storage area behind the passenger seat.
Depending on the year of your car, it is either located up under the passenger side of the dash (a PITA to get to, but do-able) or under the bin storage area behind the passenger seat.
