Aftermarket setup / Yukon

BlackonBlack · June 15, 2005

Does anyone have any pictures of a stereo in a NBS Yukon, I might be making the trade from my truck to a yukon.....and will be swapping the stereo over. I'm looking for ideas on where to place the amps and other components.....

Thanks

BlackonBlack · June 20, 2005

Does anyone have any pictures of a stereo in a NBS Yukon, I might be making the trade from my truck to a yukon.....and will be swapping the stereo over. I'm looking for ideas on where to place the amps and other components.....

Thanks

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Anyone have thoughts/info on where they mounted their amps, xm receiver.....and other components in their yukon/tahoe??

June 20, 2005

I have a TNR NAV and an Alpine H/U. The Alpine is mounted is the lower console where the "cubby" was. That is also where the external 6-disk changer went in models that had it. Check out my stored pictures here. My amps are under the rear captians chairs, along with my XM receiver and iPod interface. I have a custom sub box fitted between the rear captains, downfiring. It pretty unnoticable.

Hope it helps.

BlackonBlack · June 23, 2005

I have a TNR NAV and an Alpine H/U. The Alpine is mounted is the lower console where the "cubby" was. That is also where the external 6-disk changer went in models that had it. Check out my stored pictures here. My amps are under the rear captians chairs, along with my XM receiver and iPod interface. I have a custom sub box fitted between the rear captains, downfiring. It pretty unnoticable.

Hope it helps.

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Sounds like a real nice setup, I didn't find one with the captain's chairs....so I have the regular bench seat in the middle and no third seat.

I am entertaining the idea of mounting the amps, xm, etc inside the rear panels. I think there will be plenty of room inside there to mount everything.

asgking · June 23, 2005

I have a TNR NAV and an Alpine H/U. The Alpine is mounted is the lower console where the "cubby" was. That is also where the external 6-disk changer went in models that had it. Check out my stored pictures here. My amps are under the rear captians chairs, along with my XM receiver and iPod interface. I have a custom sub box fitted between the rear captains, downfiring. It pretty unnoticable.

Hope it helps.

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what kind of setup do you have. How are you able to run the TNR NAV with your after market alpine headunit????

I just installed my alpine9855 and ran new speakers with new speaker wires from my own aftermarket amp. I used PAC's audios OS2 to bypass bose and keep onstar.

What did you do to run the NAV and keep your alpine???

June 25, 2005

When I bought the truck it wasn't long before I pulled out the Bose H/U and went with my Alpine. I replaced all the door speakers with MB Quart components. I left the 3" speakers in the rear pillars, the tweeters in the front pillars, and the console sub since they were not in my way. I also left the Bose amps under the console. I built a custom sub box that lies between my rear captain chairs and located my amps under the rear captain chairs. Originally my Alpine head was put into the dash at the "stock" locations using a Metra adapter. (Truth is I started out with a Sony system but switched to Alpine when I added the XM and iPod.

When I both the NAV unit I moved the Alpine down to the console where most 6 disc changers are located. Plugging the NAV into the original wiring harness was a breeze. That powered up the Bose amps and gave me sound through the speakers I didn't remove. All things considered, even with only a few small speakers, it sounds as good as a stock non-Bose system. The NAV voice is clear and sounds like it comes out of the front pillars speakers only.

Getting the Alpine back up and running required me to cut-and-splice my serial power adapter into the stock harness (remember before it just plugged in instead of the head unit). A little time consuming but certainly not brain surgery. That gave me my "ignition on" power for the Alpine. I tore open the adapter an ripped out the chime speaker since it was no longer necessary (the NAV gave me my stock chimes back) and it was VERY load for some reason.

The only issue left was the radio antenna. Hmmmm. One antenna, two head units. Think,,,,,,,the stock Bose sound REALLY sucks now compared to my Alpine,,, I have XM - what do I care,,,,,I put it on the Alpine. I think I'm going to move it back up to the Bose some day just in case I blow my Alpine up. I'd at least not have to sing to myself until I got it fixed.

BlackonBlack - I'm thinking you'll find it very difficult to put the electronics in the side panels. The passenger side has the rear A/C unit already and there is little to no air flow inside those panels. The amps might still fit under the rear seats (I've never checked it out) and the sub may have to be a JL Audio in the console or a custom box behind your rear seats.

BlackonBlack · June 27, 2005

BlackonBlack - I'm thinking you'll find it very difficult to put the electronics in the side panels. The passenger side has the rear A/C unit already and there is little to no air flow inside those panels. The amps might still fit under the rear seats (I've never checked it out) and the sub may have to be a JL Audio in the console or a custom box behind your rear seats.

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I was originally just thinking of putting the amps and xm receiver in the rear side panels....I had not looked around back there just yet. guess you just saved me some time! Since I will have to be buying/building a new box, maybe I will just mount everything to the back side of the speaker box....I have three 200w amps and an amp for the sub instead of just two amps like most people have. I already had two amps in a previous car(one for the sub and the other for the front speakers), and just added two more amps since I had plenty of room to mount everything in the truck. Maybe I could build a fake floor and mount the amps on the underside of that, I've seen the guys on corvetteforum do this....that would allow plenty of air flow to keep the amps cool. Sounds like I've got a lot of thinking and planning to do before I tackle this install!