The overall steps are:
- Remove the driver side fuse box cover: In order to power the control module you will be installing two new fuse slots. You should use a multi meter to find out which fuse slots to use (Power vs. Accessory).
The necessary fuse connector to add a new circuit to the car’s fuse box should have been provided.
You will also need to attach the ground wire; there is a screw + nut in the upper left corner that can be used for the ground connection. - Use the following picture as an overall guide:
- If you got the LED version each speaker comes with 2x unmarked (red) wires. Depending on what color light you wish to have you will attach none/or one/or both of these wires to the one black wire in the harness. This will give you the effect of:
- no light (no wire)
- blue light (one of the wires)
- red light (the other wire)
- purple light (red+blue) (both wires)
- I decided to make my own micro switches to make the process of switching the colors easier:
- Remove the speaker frame and unscrew the old Bose speakers (two screws). Note: Space will be very tight under the windshield so you might have to get “shallow” L-wrenches to be able to reach the screws.
- Here the yellow wire is the black wire from the harness and you can see one of the switches (2) for blue is on:
- Use some twist wire connectors (not provided) to connect the wires.
- Final result:
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Just ordered these, thanks for the awesome guide! Would you be able to prove a diagram for the dip switch set up you made? It’s a little hard to tell from the picture
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Sure: https://i.imgur.com/try8qMh.png
I didn’t have any one pole inputs left so I just used a 2 pole and soldered the two inputs together.
If I were to do this again I would use a 4 pole switch on one board and route the wires from the passenger side back to somewhere near the control module which is more accessible.
Cheers!
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Thank you very much!
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Hi,
Do those speakers sound much better than original bose’s? I’m thinking of replacing original tweeters and center speaker, since they sound like they were covered with a blanket (no clarity at all)…
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In my opinion they do sound better than the original BOSE ones. They sound notably brighter and make the horrible system a little more tolerable.
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Street view support ended a couple of years ago. As the note on top says Google Earth support was ended in 2020 but a couple of month ago it inexplicitly came back.
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