Bose Blues
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Heel & Toe
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From: Zionsville In
Bose Blues
Does anyine know how you remove the Bose speaker packages from a 88 Convert. I suffered from the poping and farting on shutdown last year and finally made the supreme effort by changing the relay thats buried behind the dash(with a few other never use items such as turn signal flasher and a fuse box. What a great design. Anyway its doing it again and as before,it will diascharge the battery in 2 or 3 weeks of inactivity. I'm considering changing the whole system out but looking at it I'm somewhat mistified on how you get the stuff out. The speakers themselves are easy,but how does the other stuff come out.I'm not into music and etc but I'm tired of the hassle of constantly having to either rrun it often,or pulling the fuse that drives it. That works but it does knock off some other usefull things as well.
Sorry for the length of this. I have all the Factory Manuals and they do nothing to help.
Thanks,
Sorry for the length of this. I have all the Factory Manuals and they do nothing to help.
Thanks,
Drifting
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From: Byron Center MI
I replaced my Bose in my 89 vert. I just pulled the head unit and speaker boxes and ran new wiring. Once the rear boxes are removed you can bolt 6x9s in the rear plate. I had to disassemble the door boxes in the door to get them out. Its not that bad. I had to make speaker boxes for the front. This is the most time consuming part of the whole install. I also tryed to use just the aftermarket HU but it was not enough power for top down cruising. I added an amp to fix that.
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Heel & Toe
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From: Zionsville In
Originally Posted by janman
Does anyine know how you remove the Bose speaker packages from a 88 Convert. I suffered from the poping and farting on shutdown last year and finally made the supreme effort by changing the relay thats buried behind the dash(with a few other never use items such as turn signal flasher and a fuse box. What a great design. Anyway its doing it again and as before,it will diascharge the battery in 2 or 3 weeks of inactivity. I'm considering changing the whole system out but looking at it I'm somewhat mistified on how you get the stuff out. The speakers themselves are easy,but how does the other stuff come out.I'm not into music and etc but I'm tired of the hassle of constantly having to either rrun it often,or pulling the fuse that drives it. That works but it does knock off some other usefull things as well.
Sorry for the length of this. I have all the Factory Manuals and they do nothing to help.
Thanks,
Sorry for the length of this. I have all the Factory Manuals and they do nothing to help.
Thanks,
Drifting
Joined: Mar 2004
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From: Byron Center MI
I had to disassemble them while they were inside the door. Some people have had luck getting them out without disassembly but I could not. The rears are very easy there are some 8mm bolts that hold the plates inplace. Once those are removed you can lift the plates and the speaker boxes are attached to the under side of the plates. Yes I pulled new speaker wire also. The wire used to feed the speakers of the Bose speakers are quite small. Hope this helps.
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From: San Pedro CA
Running speaker wire in a C4 isn't all that bad. The big rubber conduits? They are HOLLOW! Wire just falls through there!!! GREAT invention.
The rear? Just run speaker wire down the center console, or, down the right side rocker panel (avoids the main harness on the left, and gee, the parking brake).
You may want to scan the Audio Section... there are lots of answers to questions, plus, the C4 Audio FAQ.
The rear? Just run speaker wire down the center console, or, down the right side rocker panel (avoids the main harness on the left, and gee, the parking brake).
You may want to scan the Audio Section... there are lots of answers to questions, plus, the C4 Audio FAQ.
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From: Las Vegas Nv
I took the original speakers out of the back of mine and the boxes and was left with actual fittings for 6 by9's from the factory option so installiation was easy.
The front wasnt so straight foward. Each of the individual amps had to be removed and bypassed. I tried using the factory amps but had all sorts of problems.
The front wasnt so straight foward. Each of the individual amps had to be removed and bypassed. I tried using the factory amps but had all sorts of problems.
