Intermittently my left side, front and rear fades to practically nothing on BOTH radio and CD. I suspect speaker amp, but, due to it being out of warranty I am less than enthusiastic about having it checked out by Nissan. I understand a new amp from Nissan is around $1000 but I have seen several posts regarding places I can send the amp to and have it repaired. Good way to go or install something else? Any and all recommendations will be greatly appreciated.

 

Honestly, best bet is to just go aftermarket.

 

yeah, just go aftermarket. i would rather spend that 1000 bucks on better equipment.

 

Is an aftermarket just going to fit in and let me retain same controls? Since all the Bose system speakers are amp'd should I be looking at a complete system? Can NE1 recommend options or at least where to go for it?

 

Its kind of tough for anyone to answer a broad question like that, and it really depends on how much you want to spend, as there are a million options. If you suspect the amp is the problem, then yes, Is look at a complete system if I were you.

As far as a new head unit, theres a million options, so we'll need some help narrowing it down. Do you want sat radio? ipod functionality? Have any needs for a built in EQ? Most of the Eclipse, Alpine, and Pioneer decks have a hardwired remote input, which you can use to integrate steering wheel controls with a separate adapter. A great SQ bang-for-the-buck deck with all of those features in one chassis would be the DEH-P880PRS from Premier, but theres also a lot of nice Eclipse decks, and some great Nakamichi's if you like a no-frills, bare bones SQ oriented deck.
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pn...159496,00.html
www.eclipse-web.com
www.nakamichi.com

On to speakers. Inevitably, people here will say pick up some Rainbow soundline components and coaxials from Don (our legendary moderator here). Id agree...very hard to beat their speakers for the price. But nonetheless, although you probably won't find Rainbows locally, you should drive around to shops and take a listen for yourself to see what you like, because everyones ears are different. (Yet again, a million options. If everyones ears were the same, and each speaker could reproduce each frequency equally well, there would be no fun in car audio).
SLC265 components
http://car.rainbow-audio.de/products...n=7&art=231150
SL165 coaxials
http://car.rainbow-audio.de/products...n=8&art=231147

Amplification: You definitely want to add an amp if you get aftermarket components up front. A decent 4 channel amp can start around 300 bucks, and go up to way more than you probably want to spend, and there are a million options here as well...but if you end up getting those Rainbows, Id look to give em 75-100 watts a piece from a quality amp.

It is possible to retain the factory sub with an aftermarket radio/speakers, even though most shops will tell you otherwise, but Id recommend either keeping the factory sub or adding an aftermarket one, because most people do miss it once its gone. It doesnt always have to take up trunk space either, you can do an aftermarket 8 in the rear deck if you like the stock look.

With a rough guess in my head...with a little over a grand you could do a radio, 4 speakers, and a 4 channel amp installed if you shopped around and got good deals. Whether or not you want to up that budget a bit for an aftermarket sub is up to you. But regardless youll be wondering why you didnt ditch Bose sooner.

I hope that makes sense, it is 2:40am afterall, and these forums are dead so I took the time to explain why nobody else gave a long response before I did. Its not just some cut and dry solution to car stereos, theres a million options out there for any needs you have.

 

Holy crap. I just hit "post reply" and realized I wrote a fukcing novel. Enjoy.

 

Kudos to kpr10is, excellent feedback and enough thing to consider for the next week or 2. I may as well find a reputable shop here in Vegas and see what we can do, I am thinking $1000-1500 and see what that can get me.
Again, thanks for the input

 

Sounds good. Just post up what you are thinking about getting before you jump the gun. Even with the bias of people on forums, you still can get a good idea of whether theyre simply replying with bias and its still a good brand, or whether its something you should avoid altogether, and if thats the case someone can usually steer you in the right direction for a simliar price.

 

well first of all does anyone know if u need to get another adaptor for a 6th gen maxima with bose in order to put an after market radio in cuz thats all they tell me when i go to circuit city or best buy... and KPR10IS i am intrested in the black housing head lights i kno u said to pm u but i have no idea how to do that...
thanx in advance...
plz get back to me asap
cuz i got a good deal on a pioneer avic-d1

 

Since you're new, Ill copy and paste my own post from the stickies for you.

Putting an aftermarket radio on stock bose speakers: This applies to any generation maxima, and #4 applies to 4th gen and up.

Your factory Bose head unit sends an unamplified audio signal to the Bose amps. So you want to replicate this as close as possible for the best sq, in theory. There are a few options:
1) You can wire it up as a normal head unit without any Bose adapters, and have a small risk of burning up the Bose amp(s).
2) You can buy the $50 PAC or Scosche adapter, such as the one here
4th gen and up: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-7pnyu0E...51&I=142C4NN03
3rd gen: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-7pnyu0E...51&I=142C4NN02
3) You can wire the deck's preouts to the wiring harness in the dash, which will send an unamplified signal to the Bose amps. You have front and rear preouts. Each of those has a left (white) and right (red). So youd plug in RCA ends to the front and rear preouts, leaving a few inches of wire for you to play with. For the front left RCA, there will be 2 single wires inside it. Wire those to white and white/black. The front right, wire those to gray and gray/black. Do the same for the rears, Rear left will be the green and green/black, and Rear right will be purple and purple/black.
4) You can buy the Metra 70-7551 for 4th gen and up, or 70-1764 for 3rd gen (which is usually hard to find locally) which will already have all of Step #3 above done for you, so you can just plug stuff in.
http://www.metraonline.com/i/METRAHANDOUT_2005.pdf
Page 25 of 36 is a pic of both the Metra 70-7551 and 70-1764.

If you need your radio installed asap, the most cost effective way is Step #3. But if you can find the 70-7551 harness, or have time to order it online, it will probably save you some headache. Those are the easiest, most cost effective methods of this installation.

Caution: If the voltage of your preouts isnt a decent amount, you might want to avoid steps 3 or 4 and go with step 2. Low voltage preouts combined with step 3 or 4 will equate to your Bose speakers not getting loud once installed.

Good luck.


You cant send me a pm yet because you dont yet have 15 posts.
Shoot me an email at kpr10is@hotmail.com about your headlights. Make sure you put something about 6th gen headlights in the title so I dont think its spam.

 

Hey, sorry, I don't mean to thread hijack since this is only very loosely related. I don't have 15 posts yet, and I can't start my own thread and I'm not finding anything via search.

I've found the 05 Wiring Diagram and I'm in the middle of installing my PAC-NIS adapter for my iPod. I have a second cable adapter that I need to wire in to provide a charge to the iPod. I'm having a hard time with the diagram. Can someone just quickly tell me the best location to find a 12V constant and a 12V switched power source and what colors the wires would be? Thanks so much.

 

Since Im assuming you already have the radio out, the easiest place would be the radio's wiring harness. Dont know the colors though, because I always just plug in a wiring harness and use it to tell me what is what.