Hey all, this may have been addressed before on here (I am going to search more thoroughly in these threads), but I have an 04 Spec V that doesn't have the base model or RF stereo. Mine has the free-air sub in the rear deck. I want to run a complete bypass of this speaker and run the fronts and rears directly off my replacement HU (JVC Arsenal KD-A805). I broke the rear molex connector on the sub in the rear shelf one day when trying to do something in the trunk, and it stopped the stereo in it's previous configuration from working. I have found online that the wires for the deck go to the amp in the cover on the bottom of that sub first, and come back to the deck, which I think is really dumb.
I want to know if it's easy enough to get the pwr/gnd/rem wires right in the dash to run the JVC, and if I can run speaker wires straight to the speakers?
I know there are wire harness adapters, but they woud just graft onto the exsisting harness, the one that goes to that sub first right? Some people have said to just unplug it, but that actually kills power to the stock radio.
One of the previous owners of my car had an aftermarket stereo in the car before, and I might get better answers when I pull the deck as to if any changes have been, or need to be made.
Have any of you switched out your Premium Audio with aftermarket, deleting the free-air sub outright?
I want to physically take it out of the trunk I think too, to port the trunk into the cabin, as I am going to use a Pioneer TS-SWX251 Subwoofer mounted right to the back of the seats, facing into them.
Any advice would be great!
I want to know if it's easy enough to get the pwr/gnd/rem wires right in the dash to run the JVC, and if I can run speaker wires straight to the speakers?
I know there are wire harness adapters, but they woud just graft onto the exsisting harness, the one that goes to that sub first right? Some people have said to just unplug it, but that actually kills power to the stock radio.
One of the previous owners of my car had an aftermarket stereo in the car before, and I might get better answers when I pull the deck as to if any changes have been, or need to be made.
Have any of you switched out your Premium Audio with aftermarket, deleting the free-air sub outright?
I want to physically take it out of the trunk I think too, to port the trunk into the cabin, as I am going to use a Pioneer TS-SWX251 Subwoofer mounted right to the back of the seats, facing into them.
Any advice would be great!