Radio Install Question
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Radio Install Question
I am new here but have a couple of questions about installing a radio. So i want to know if the amp in the trunk is only hooked up to the speaker in the back or to all the speakers.
If you have an amp in the trunk, you have a Bose system. And the Bose amp has all the speakers going through it. The Bose amp amplifies all the door speakers, but not the woofer. The amp does create the woofer signal and the woofer has its own amplifier.
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When soldering your stuff up front you should match colors to colors, and there is one or two unused the wires and they are for steering wheel controls which will most likely not be used anymore unless you bought the specific steering wheel control adapter part.
To start with, the radio you bought should come with a wire harness that plugs into the radio and you need to solder wires to it. This wire colors in this harness are used by just about all manufacturers.
You should buy an adapter harness that will plug into the Maxima's wire harness and this is what you solder the radio's harness to. The brand Metra is the most commonly available adapter, their part # is 70-7551.
http://www.metraonline.com/vfg
You should buy an adapter harness that will plug into the Maxima's wire harness and this is what you solder the radio's harness to. The brand Metra is the most commonly available adapter, their part # is 70-7551.
http://www.metraonline.com/vfg
Code:
Adapter Wiring for 2001 Bose Radio
After-market Metra Nissan Wire
Signal Radio Harness Nissan Adaptor Harness, Bose Pin #
-------------- ---------------- ---------------- ------------------- -----
Ground Black Black black 9
Ground Black Black black 11
Radio power Red Red purple 10
Station Memory Yellow Yellow yellow 6
Antenna Blue Blue green/white stripe 5
LF Speaker pos White White white stripe 2
LF Speaker neg White/blk stripe White/blk stripe Black 1
RF Speaker pos Gray Gray Green 4
RF Speaker neg Gray/blk stripe Gray/blk stripe Red 3
LR Speaker pos Green Green Brown 14
LR Speaker neg Green/blk stripe Green/blk stripe black/red stripe 13
RR Speaker pos Purple Violet Blue 16
RR Speaker neg Purple/blk stripe Violet/blk Stripe black/white stripe 15
Remote Amp On Blue/wht stripe Blue/wht stripe green/white stripe 12
Illumination Orange/wht stripe Orange Red/whire stripe 8
Dimmer Orange/blk stripe Red/yellow stripe 7
The colors listed for the Metra Nissan adaptor are for an after-market adaptor and
are NOT the color of the Nissan wiring harness.
The Nissan wire harness for Bose uses 2 connectors for the radio, M62 and M61.
M62 contains wires numbered 1 through 10 and M61 has wires numbered 11 through 16.
if you have a bose system you might run into the issue of only having one cable for the front left speakers. I had that issue and when i toned it out i was missing my woofer cable. Not sure how it got signal but had to run new wire. Running new wire on the GLE's with the bose system is not fun.
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Where are the two amps located?
In the 5th gen, the speaker amp is in the trunk, mounted upside down to the rear deck. The woofer amp is on the woofer itself, which is also mounted to the rear deck. Makes it looks like the woofer has a large magnet.
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Not fully accurate. The 4th gen Maxima has an amp in each door that powers that speaker in the door.
In the 5th gen, the speaker amp is in the trunk, mounted upside down to the rear deck. The woofer amp is on the woofer itself, which is also mounted to the rear deck. Makes it looks like the woofer has a large magnet.
In the 5th gen, the speaker amp is in the trunk, mounted upside down to the rear deck. The woofer amp is on the woofer itself, which is also mounted to the rear deck. Makes it looks like the woofer has a large magnet.
Also depends on what those factory amps can accept to high a output and it will clip to low an output and it wont have clarity.best way to figure it out is measure the output from the factory unit.but then again the highest output i have seen on a aftermarket is 8v output on line-level.
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