Can someone tell which bose speaker wires to tap into to go to my Amp for subs?

Thanks
2000 SE

 

Your amp will tell you which ones to use. Should be the + of the left and right speaker.

Tav

 

I'm trying to add an amplifier and subs to my stock bose system.
I need to know which color wires on the bose speakers are for right rear and left rear so they can go to my amp. I had this setup in my 96 but the bose system is different. Anyone know?
Thanks in advance.

 

The wires you have to tap in to do not have a color. You must hook your amp wires up to the SPEAKER. If you are looking at the speaker with the speaker sires facing you usually the right wire it the plus.

I just hooked mine up over the weekend.

Tav

 

My amp has RCA jack inputs only. I had to use an adapter that converts the wire into RCA jacks. I had done this in my 96 by tapping into the two rears bose subs in the trunk. The adapter has wires on one side and RCA jacks on the other. I had to tap into two wires on each bose sub for left and right. Then I hooked up the RCA jacks to the Adapter and the Amplifier. Thats how my amp gets its sound source.

I need to know which wires I need to tap with my adapter for left and right rear.

 

My understanding of these converters is that they convert speaker level in to RCA. If this is correct then you would just hook it up to the speaker like you did your old amp. If this is not the case I do not think you can hood the converter up to the wires before the amp. My understanding of the Bose system is that they use some wierd *** signal from the head unit to the amp. Nothing can convert the signal properly except the stock amp.

 

Yes that is the converter I have and used in my 96. My 2000 SE only has one Sub in the trunk. I need a left and a right rear sound source so I can tap for the speaker level for the adapter.
Do you know which wires do what in the Trunk?

 

No I do not. My suggestion would be to bridge the amp. That way you only need one RCA(look at your amp to make sure). Just hook one side of the converter to the sub speakers and use that one RCA to run to the afermarket amp.

 

Will this work for both my 12"s?

 

Here's the adapter

 

What amp are you using. How many ohms is it stable too? Whay type of subs are you using?

 

I have a 360 X 2 rockford rosqate amp and 2 12" rockford rosqate subs that are 200 watt max.

 

If that is 360 watts per channel for the amp and the subs are are not supose to go over 200 watts then I would hook all 4 of the inputs of the converter up to the car sub. Use the L,R + to the plus side of the Bose sub and then the L, R - to the left side of the BOSE sub. Just hook the amp up in stereo and run each channel to each speaker.

The BOSE sub should be getting mono bellow 120Hz. Hooking the L,R converter to the BOSEE sub will work fine.

 

Are you saying hook up both subs to one side.

 

Yes. If there is a single sub then is is running in mono. The Bose unit is taking all sounds below 120hz? and summing them to mono. So it will be no problem to hook both sides to the Bose speaker.

 

Thanks for your help man.