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schlegle1 Senior Enthusiast

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Well I just purchased the factory nav for my truck and it's a non-Bose truck so I know that I have to install an amp to run the speakers. I purchased everything I need (vss harness, gps antenna, nav unit ect) but I did not purchase the PAC adapter to get the RCA inputs from the head unit because I figured I would save some money after dropping the substantial amount I just did on everything else. Therefore I figured I would just use a line output converter to get the RCA's from the nav. However I was wondering how I should wire this in? What's the best way? & could anyone tell me the wire colors I need from the factory harness to tap into?

 

 

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Well I just purchased the factory nav for my truck and it's a non-Bose truck so I know that I have to install an amp to run the speakers. I purchased everything I need (vss harness, gps antenna, nav unit ect) but I did not purchase the PAC adapter to get the RCA inputs from the head unit because I figured I would save some money after dropping the substantial amount I just did on everything else. Therefore I figured I would just use a line output converter to get the RCA's from the nav. However I was wondering how I should wire this in? What's the best way? & could anyone tell me the wire colors I need from the factory harness to tap into?

 

 

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I don't think you need a line level converter - your factory navi should already have low level outputs (it's only compatible with a BOSE system), so you should be able to wire directly from the speaker output leads to RCA's to your amp. If you're running new wires to your speakers, you don't have to cut the factory harness and can hook directly to the back of the deck without any worries, but if you're going to tie into the factory wiring for speaker output, you'll have to cut the speaker wires at the head unit and wire your amp output to the car side and the amp inputs to the radio side.

schlegle1 Senior Enthusiast

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how would i go about wiring the amp to RCA's? This seems like it would be ALLOT better quality wise as well?

wottenad Enthusiast

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how would i go about wiring the amp to RCA's? This seems like it would be ALLOT better quality wise as well?

 

 

You can use standard RCA's - if I were to do it, I would source the mating plugs for the deck (maybe a junkyard) and for vehicle harness (easy - any car stereo shop will have one - you may have to buy one for an Aveo though), then hardwire the RCAs to the speaker outputs from the deck, then wire from the amp output to the vehicle adaptor harness - that way you don't need to run new wires into the doors...

schlegle1 Senior Enthusiast

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im kind of confused on how you're saying to do this (bear with me I'm new at this stereo stuff) so you're saying i could just locate the wires for the speakers in my vehicles wiring harness behind my nav unit, wire them too RCA's and then just run the Male RCA cables from my amp to these RCA's that i just wired in?

montyss Enthusiast

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You can use the harness from a PAC AOEM-GM1416 , by using the plugs on the PAC harness that go into the radio and to the stock harness you will not have to touch any factory wires . The PAC harness is basically just a TEE in the wires so you can add an amp , but you will have to cut one of each speakers wires on the PAC harness so your amp wires for the speakers can return to the truck harness. You just have to cut each one in the correct place for it to work , the cut is made on the wire leading to the plug returning to the trucks harness . Then you can add your RCA's to the plug that would be there if you used the OEM-1 convertor.

My truck was non-Bose also and this worked well when adding the Bose Nav, no loud chimes or any other problem

schlegle1 Senior Enthusiast

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ok but if you read my first post i did NOT purchase the PAC adapter, therefore I'm not working with one to do this.

montyss Enthusiast

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Ok ... but its the easiest way to get the proper male and female plugs to do the job , you can get them for less than $30

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Ok ... but its the easiest way to get the proper male and female plugs to do the job , you can get them for less than $30

 

 

I didn't even think about this part because we never do this type of install, but I agree, a MUCH easier way to do it...

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