Argh. I just typed up a nice description, only to hit the back button on my mouse by accident.
Here we go. Again.
I'm working on an 2001 Audi S4, with the premium BOSE sound system.
I removed the stock head unit, and replaced it with a 7" Touchscreen Liliput LCD.
The LCD works very well, and I have no complaints.
My question is that of wiring.
I purchased a 360W Alpine 4-Chan. Amp, and a subscription to Bently Publishing's Wiring Diagrams for the S4.
I used wiretaps on the wires used by the stock speakers, and ran new wire into the trunk, where the amp is.
I connected the speaker wires to the amp, and a remote wire (+12V) from the stock head unit's wire harness.
After all of this work, I realized that the amp. installation kit I had baught didn't come with (or I had managed to loose) the 8 gauge wire crimp used to connect the power wire to the amp itself, and the ground wire to the amp/ground surface...
Anyways, today was Easter, so nothing was open - I'll wait until tomorrow to buy the crimping connectors... but before I do all of that, I want to get some people's opinions:
Will this even WORK with the stock BOSE speakers?
Has anyone does this before? If so, which wires did you use to tap off of, and run new speaker wire?
*also*
Where the heck is there an existing hole in the firewall, where I can I feed the power wire from the battery of the car, to the trunk for the amp? I've had no luck finding anything! Drilling an S4 dosn't sound like such a hot idea to me...
Any comments or suggetions would be great!
Feel free to email me:
prophet@scrapcode.com
Thank you all very much,
-Bradley.