Has anyone out there ever tried to add a sub and amp onto the BOSE system without buying all new equipment? any suggestions how to do it? i just wanan add a single 10" free-air sub with a 200watt amp in the back deck (i will be reinforcing the deck, of course). any suggestions of parts that anyone knows of would be greatly appreciated (websites to order the parts (to run amp off factory headunit) would be greatly appreciated.

 

go to this site. This is what I went by to add subs to my bose. It will completely explain it and let you know what to get...along with other things for the max.......

Steve's MAXFAQ's.......http://web2.airmail.net/scutchen/max_faq/

 

i used a high low converter. sounds decent. it can sound better with a new deck. got my converter for 20 bucks at circut city. Installed it and it sounds decent.

 

okay, its a pretty simple procedure, and will save u big $ b/c u won't need to by a new deck

1. Go into your trunk, look at both of the bose speakers.
2. You are going to want to either by a harness, or strip with wires into a high/low converter. This way, the range of sound that is coming through will now go into this hihg low converter, and from the high/low converter(or a simple crossover, or if your amp already has a builtin crossover, better yet!) run it into your AMP. then do your basic paralell wiring into your subs, or whatever u go tplaned.

Next step, to power your amp u need what is called a PLD, Power Line D... something i fogot, well anywho, attached that onto yuour batterery, and then run the cable from the bat, throuhg the firewall, into your car....go under your carpeting or whatever, and then pop it up under your back seat, through the little crack, and WALLA, your now have a + - charged RCA's....Sweet, hoook those babies up, and u should be set....
If someone else can add some better directions onto mine, don't hesitate....i am gunna be doing the same thing durring X-mas, planning on getting a RF800a2 amp, goning into 2x12inch INfinity kappa perfect subs

That should be all u really need

 

is there a way to do this without buying a converter?

 

Converters are cheap as ****. Like $10 on ebay. If your amp is decent enough there shoudl be a High-Level input that you can just tap into the rear speaker wires and wire into that and it will give you a signal. Either way you are running power and ground lines from the front of the car anyways. Adding this in should never be a "cheap" job. It can be done fore cheap but will sound bad and possibly short stuff out.

 

first, this thread is 11 years old. no one has been in it since the end of clinton.

second go to crutchfield and look up powered subs

third

THIS THREAD IS 11 YEARS OLD!!!

 

My car was manufactured 9 months before this thread was made lol

 

Since its already been bumped I figured I would share some knowledge

Yes it is possible you need to locate the speaker wire at 1 or both of the rear speakers
buy RCA cables cut the ends off and splice them to the signal wire
I don't remember The color but I do know it's not the red and black
hook the RCAs to your amp run your power and ground and I ran my remote straight from the fuse terminal of the cigarette lighter
it has been about a year now with no problems and the only money I spent was the 80 bones in a wiring kit