e30 radio

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:51 pm

Seems I have all sorts of stuff going on w/ this e30. Just trying to get it ready for the spring driving season. Anyway, the factory radio was sounding VERY bad in this car, so I decided I'd put in pioneer unit I had bought for the bullitt. After a few nights of searching the interweb for wiring info, I got the wire harness connected and it sounds just as bad as the factory radio. Is there an amp in these cars? If so, where is it? And I though this was just going to be an easy fix...

BretLuter · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:23 pm

amp is in the trunk, left hand side, vertically under the carpet trunk liner.

Those systems are wired very differently than your average system, I recall that I found it impossible to rig up an aftermarket head unit without running all new speaker wires to non-BMW speakers.

There may be another way, I just never had the patience/skillz to figure it out.

Did you get your heli yet?

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:03 am

BretLuter wrote:

amp is in the trunk, left hand side, vertically under the carpet trunk liner.

Those systems are wired very differently than your average system, I recall that I found it impossible to rig up an aftermarket head unit without running all new speaker wires to non-BMW speakers.

There may be another way, I just never had the patience/skillz to figure it out.

Did you get your heli yet?

That makes sense. So, do you have a used amp? I'd really like to keep the stock radio in this car.

JohnByers · **Posted:** Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:14 am

BretLuter wrote:

amp is in the trunk, left hand side, vertically under the carpet trunk liner.

Those systems are wired very differently than your average system, I recall that I found it impossible to rig up an aftermarket head unit without running all new speaker wires to non-BMW speakers.

There may be another way, I just never had the patience/skillz to figure it out.

Did you get your heli yet?

x 1000!

BretLuter · **Posted:** Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:37 am

RodneyWright wrote:

BretLuter wrote:

amp is in the trunk, left hand side, vertically under the carpet trunk liner.

Those systems are wired very differently than your average system, I recall that I found it impossible to rig up an aftermarket head unit without running all new speaker wires to non-BMW speakers.

There may be another way, I just never had the patience/skillz to figure it out.

Did you get your heli yet?

That makes sense. So, do you have a used amp? I'd really like to keep the stock radio in this car.

I'm sure I do

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