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Old Feb 3, 2025 | 01:54 PM
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Does anyone have a diagram of the wiring for a Bose system on a 1998 C5. I'm putting in an entirely new system so I only need to tap a few wires and every diagram I find does not match what I have in front of me.

I need to tap the positive negative power antenna dimming and remote for my amplifier
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Do you have this one?

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Awesome! Thank you
Just quick question. I see an antenna line pg 76 but it doesn't tie to a pin number. What should be connected to trigger the antenna to go up?

98 Corvette convertible

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I need to tap the positive negative power antenna dimming and remote for my amplifier
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Awesome! Thank you
Just quick question. I see an antenna line pg 76 but it doesn't tie to a pin number. What should be connected to trigger the antenna to go up?

98 Corvette convertible
Amp remote / antenna trigger - none available, you have to use ACC from fuse box or an after market adapter like:

https://www.sonicelectronix.com/item...-PAC-TR-4.html

dimmer- you get from instrument cluster


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So there is no wire that I can attach to to trigger the antenna? New head unit has everything else I need. I was incorrect in saying that I needed a remote wire for the amplifier. I'm just trying to figure out how to hook up the dimmer which you said comes from the cluster and how to trigger the antenna. The new head unit has a wire for power antenna. I'm just trying to figure out where the pink wire is that triggers it that everyone is talking about. I don't see it on these diagrams
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Originally Posted by Johnnyv49
So there is no wire that I can attach to to trigger the antenna? New head unit has everything else I need. I was incorrect in saying that I needed a remote wire for the amplifier. I'm just trying to figure out how to hook up the dimmer which you said comes from the cluster and how to trigger the antenna. The new head unit has a wire for power antenna. I'm just trying to figure out where the pink wire is that triggers it that everyone is talking about. I don't see it on these diagrams
I suspect the pink wire everyone is referencing is further downstream, near the power antenna motor. The only pink wire in the main radio connector is the "Radio Signal-On" (C1 pin 6), but that's only present on coupes (not convertibles or hardtop/Z06).

Try connecting the power antenna wire from the HU to the Dark Green wire on C1 pin 8. That circuit powers several items:
1. Bose signal processor
2. Relays for the Bose amplifiers
3a. Relay for power antenna (convertible only)
3b. Antenna module (coupe only)
Since you're putting in an entirely new system and won't use the Bose items, this will raise the power antenna only when the source is FM or AM (not CD, XM, etc.)

You've probably already figured out the other connections:
C1 pin 10 = Positive (battery 12V)
C1 pin 5 = Negative (ground)
Illumination from the HVAC connector
HU amplifier turn-on wire connects to your aftermarket amplifier

The main radio connector is actually 2 10-pin connectors (C1 & C2) combined. Here are the connector end views from the MY02 FSM. The wire colors and circuit numbers are identical in the MY99 FSM, so hopefully they also match your '98.





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