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How to Install a PAC adapter to your stock 5th Gen Bose System

Disclaimer: This write-up is meant to be used as a guide. Anything you mess up is your own responsibility, not mine. I am an amateur who is learning this as I do it. If you want professional advice, ask someone more qualified.

Tools Needed: 2 Flathead screwdrivers (for prying - small is good)
2 Phillips head screwdrivers

To get behind the stereo, start by taking the cup out of your ashtray. Remove the single Philips head screw beneath it.


Take your small flathead screwdriver and use it to pry up along in the four areas of the console around the shifter indicated below. Pull up and jiggle the console right and left and it will come free.
Pull up on the console to expose the four tabs you just released.


Leave that piece for now, and move up to the upper air vent. Place your finger beneath the vent in the finger hole and pull up and towards you until the unit comes out. It’s very difficult to break, but don’t be excessively forceful.

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At this point, you’re ready to remove the stereo and climate control units. To do so, you need to unscrew the two screws behind the top vents, and the two screws behind the shifter console you removed.

(screws are removed already in these pictures)

To unplug the units, push the arrowed tabs with a screwdriver and pull the plugs out.


That’s all for now. I’ll add more as I complete the project myself.