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adding sub and amp?

Post by shadrack » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:00 pm

right went to add a sub and amp today ( a vibe all in one unit as i have 3 of these in the spare room) and i have not got round to building my stealth box yet but thort get the wiring in ready. so i have one of these phono lead adapters to get the phone leads connected it has 5 wires to connect: front left +, front left-, front right+, front right- and a ground, went on x outpost, took all stuff out to radio module traced wires back up and spliced into them near the multi changer, connected them all as per these colours http://www.xoutpost.com/articles/x5/ste ... ation.html and powered it up and all i get is a constant drone frome the sub weather the stereo is one or not, i then found a 2nd pair of wires that were the same colour blue so tried them and the same. the remote wire works though (white one). anyone any ideas?? i have no dsp or harmon factory amp etc. i used one of these connectors on my old x5 with no probs but did it behind the head unit as it was a standard one. so i realy need advice on this wiring issue. thanks
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Re: adding sub and amp?

Post by x555 » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:40 pm

I'm no expert on the wiring side of things but when i installed mine i used this http://www.bavariansoundwerks.com/produ ... Subwoofer/ for advise and had no probs doing it. HTH
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Re: adding sub and amp?

Post by shadrack » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:44 pm

yeh i looked at that but i dont seem to have a factory amp. or if i do it must be somewhere else
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              2008 Transit sport van            
              1964 vw beach buggy
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Re: adding sub and amp?

Post by shadrack » Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:34 pm

anyone i realy need this bass!!
current: 2016 Vw Crafter
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              2008 Transit sport van            
              1964 vw beach buggy
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