Help with C6 with bose aftermarket head unit
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Racer
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Help with C6 with bose aftermarket head unit
Hello, I'm having trouble getting any sound out of my speakers with my new headunit. I'm using the RP3-GM11 adapter because I don't have steering wheel controls or anything special on my 2005 and it said it works with bose systems. I've used two different headunits and still nothing. The light lights up on the adapter. I have all the wiring I believe correctly hooked up. I've got the correct powers and grounds. I did hook up the blue amp turn on wire as well. Both headunits power up just fine too and I can start to play but no sound. The first headunit was hooked up in my Jetta that I have a 5 channel amp in so I've used the pre amp outputs in that. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or what needs to be done.
I did check the amp turn on wire voltage and it's 11.x volts (car turned off) going from the head unit to the adapter but only like 9v coming out so I thought maybe that was the problem and jumped it over so the bose amp saw more voltage but still nothing.
I can plug the original headunit back in and it works perfectly fine. So can anyone help me out of what needs to be done if there's some trick to these bose systems. Thank you
I did check the amp turn on wire voltage and it's 11.x volts (car turned off) going from the head unit to the adapter but only like 9v coming out so I thought maybe that was the problem and jumped it over so the bose amp saw more voltage but still nothing.
I can plug the original headunit back in and it works perfectly fine. So can anyone help me out of what needs to be done if there's some trick to these bose systems. Thank you
Burning Brakes
Joined: Oct 2018
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From: New Brunswick, Canada
Hello, I'm having trouble getting any sound out of my speakers with my new headunit. I'm using the RP3-GM11 adapter because I don't have steering wheel controls or anything special on my 2005 and it said it works with bose systems. I've used two different headunits and still nothing. The light lights up on the adapter. I have all the wiring I believe correctly hooked up. I've got the correct powers and grounds. I did hook up the blue amp turn on wire as well. Both headunits power up just fine too and I can start to play but no sound. The first headunit was hooked up in my Jetta that I have a 5 channel amp in so I've used the pre amp outputs in that. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or what needs to be done.
I did check the amp turn on wire voltage and it's 11.x volts (car turned off) going from the head unit to the adapter but only like 9v coming out so I thought maybe that was the problem and jumped it over so the bose amp saw more voltage but still nothing.
I can plug the original headunit back in and it works perfectly fine. So can anyone help me out of what needs to be done if there's some trick to these bose systems. Thank you
I did check the amp turn on wire voltage and it's 11.x volts (car turned off) going from the head unit to the adapter but only like 9v coming out so I thought maybe that was the problem and jumped it over so the bose amp saw more voltage but still nothing.
I can plug the original headunit back in and it works perfectly fine. So can anyone help me out of what needs to be done if there's some trick to these bose systems. Thank you
