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What the hell are all these connectors in the trunk?
While putting in door speakers today, i noticed the ghetto rigged install job which was done by a previous owner. It was a disaster. Door was sliced up, random hot 12v connections that go to no-where in the trunk... and then i found this:
Speaker wires are blue, power distribution blocks bolted to board, power wires clad in black flex loom, and a handful of proprietary din plugs that were likely for some type of aftermarket head unit source connection... Cd changer, sat, NAV, etc.
I just spit some beer out laughing. What a hilarious find.
Yeah, just wait till you see the other side of the trunk. The amp has all sorts of misc wires spliced in. Of course only 25% of these are labeled
Now i gotta figure out if i can even find a stock sub and plug it back in, or if it'd be easier to do an aftermarket one at this rate. It was so bad, literally only had one rear door speaker and the car has no sub!?! Not sure what's up with that.
Those wires/connectors is where the factory Bose amp was. They actually took time with that board and distribution blocks. Always looks jacked up when stuff is removed and you are not the original installer.
Those wires/connectors is where the factory Bose amp was. They actually took time with that board and distribution blocks. Always looks jacked up when stuff is removed and you are not the original installer.
Bose is on the driver's side of the trunk. On-Star is on the passenger.
Oh that makes alot of sense now. My onstar does not work. Not sure that i'll be going out of my way to buy a new module and purchasing their service. I thought those connectors look factory. Thnx guys!
Oh that makes alot of sense now. My onstar does not work. Not sure that i'll be going out of my way to buy a new module and purchasing their service. I thought those connectors look factory. Thnx guys!
I wouldn't worry about the onstar, I tried it, found it to be worthless. Sound quality on the phone calls isn't much better than putting your cell phone of speaker and setting it on the center console.... And that is from the perspective of the person calling you....
If I saw anybody do now the kinds of hack-jobs I was doing back in high-school, I would punch them in the face. You live and you learn!
I was a self taught car audio installer back then as well. I had some interesting ideas in the speaker enclosure department and laugh now at some of my creations. At least I was smart enough to fuse the power wires right at the battery.
Yeah speaking of hack job's i've literally seen someone put a subwoofer inside a home depot bucket. Thank god my audio system wasn't that bad.
But now that i have 4x matching door speakers - I do need to put in a nice sub, have any of you guys just popped in an aftermarket on in replace of the OEM sub? Trying to avoid boxes and extreme powered window rattling subs. Just need something similar to stock or slight improvement.
But now that i have 4x matching door speakers - I do need to put in a nice sub, have any of you guys just popped in an aftermarket on in replace of the OEM sub? Trying to avoid boxes and extreme powered window rattling subs. Just need something similar to stock or slight improvement.
You'll need to use an infinite baffle style subwoofer if you're going to use the original Bose location. Personally, I ripped out the Bose sub and left it open as a port for the JL subs I installed in a sealed enclosure in a traditional trunk location.
12-17-2014, 06:13 PM
What the hell are all these connectors in the trunk? 
I was a self taught car audio installer back then as well. I had some interesting ideas in the speaker enclosure department and laugh now at some of my creations. At least I was smart enough to fuse the power wires right at the battery.