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Originally Posted by john08135i
Did you do a cleanSweep or similar to tap into the signal from where for lows?
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No, you don't need a fancy harness or processor or anything special for this install. It's super easy since everything is in the trunk. Get some in line splices, electric tape, and then the standard, sub, amp, and amp kit. If your amp has hi level inputs (speaker level) then just tap the 4 thick wires coming off the stock amp which go to the subs under the front seats for your signal. They are in a twisted pair so just spread them a bit to give yourself room to tap them. The wires with the red stripe are the +'s and the ones with the brown stripes are the -'s. Then your remote turn on is the very thin black wire coming out of the amp as well. You can see all wires in the photo below.
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It's very obvious once you look at your stock amp which is in the trunk on the drivers side under the removable plastic cover. There's a convenient ground location on the drivers side behind the carpet for your amp. And in terms of power, just run a line to the convenient positive terminal accessory location which is under a small red plastic cover that has a + sign on it. It's just above the actual positive terminal on the battery which is behind the removable cover on the right side of the trunk. In terms of the overall install process, it's very straightforward....
1. REMOVE NEGATIVE TERMINAL ON BATTERY BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELECTRICAL... if i remember correctly, you need a 9 or 10mm socket wrench
2. Take in line fuse out of your power wire
3. Run power wire to positive terminal accessory location. This should be a 10mm nut that you just remove, put power wire terminal ring over, then put nut back on
4. Run other end of power wire to amp
5. Acquire audio signal by tapping the 4 thick wires from the stock amp output and run to your aftermarket amp (either directly to hi level input location (recommended) or to RCA line out converter which then goes to your RCA input on aftermarket amp).
6. Run remote turn on to the very thin black wire coming from the stock amp
7. Ground your amp to one of the available grounding locations in the trunk (behind the carpet). I used the one on the drivers side as my amp/sub is velcroed down to the drivers side of the trunk. The grounding location looks like a rectangular plate with a bunch of brown stock ground wires going to it. Just loosen the mounting screw that holds the plate down, and slide your ground wire under it and tighten back down.
8. Put in line fuse back in power wire
9. Reconnect negative terminal and test amp/sub
10. Tuck wires away and secure sub box for a clean install
10. RESET YOUR DATE/TIME in iDrive as there will be a yellow warning indicator that pops up since the car did not have power
Rock out with your new and improved audio system !