Blasted Bose
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Burning Brakes
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Blasted Bose
My 90 with the six speaker bose has the rear speakers that are unplugged 'cause they only hiss. Very softly but they do. Is there a simple test for the amps and the relay? I only have a Chiltons at this point and naturally it really doesn't contain enough info.
Certainly I'd be much happier if the relay was the problem.
Certainly I'd be much happier if the relay was the problem.
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Burning Brakes
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It's funny about the FSM. It seems that the 1990 isn't carried anywhere. It'll be off to ebay for me I think.
Le Mans Master
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Put an aftermarket in and keep the original in your garage if you so desire. With the Bose IMO, when problems start they just seem to continue. Did that on my '90 and never looked back
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Le Mans Master
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Burning Brakes
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You guys are a plethora of good news. Now I'm wondering if I should just go aftermarket but I sure don't want to rewire the whole darn thing either.
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From: genoa il
rip the bose out and hang it from a tree. get yourself some half inch high density particle board and make some small enclosures and put some alpine/polk/cdtaudio/focal/........in there and a new headunit. might even be able to reuse the bose boxes. im just taking my 89s door boxes apart to put some 6 inch alpine coaxials in them
Le Mans Master
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yes its a bitch to rewire the whole damn thing,,but worth every minute..I put 2 6 inch subs where the rear speakers used to be, a 4 channel 500 watt amp in the back, modded the front speaker pods to accept 6 1/4's, an Alpine CDA 117 with an Ipod headunit..and got rid of that damn carpeting they cover the speaker covers with, replaced with speaker cloth..that was a pain to do but what a difference..they say verts can't sound good...wrong..
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St. Jude Donor '12
as I posted before I went ahead and upgraded my bose system with a rebuild of the amps and the box under the dash. Would I do it again? I dont know. The speakers came with a life time warranty and the box 1 year. But there is a lot of info on here with with pictures of the new after market radios that are state of the art. I just wanted to keep my 90 vert original for now.