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Re: Radio Replacement
Posted by JohnL (more from JohnL) on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:27:34
In Reply to: Re: Radio Replacement, dim33, Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:25:52
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My wife complained of crackling noise in her '96 9000CS speakers. I had previously replaced the factory head with a Sony AM/FM/CD player. I made a connector from the plug off the OEM radio so it would mate with the factory plugs. I tried a Crutchfield adapter and it did not fit. Anyhow, the crackling is purportedly due to the factory amp under the front seat going bad. I unplugged the large connector on the amp and matched up the wires from the pink plug behind the radio (the speaker connector). The speaker wires themselves are identical in color but 14 gauge as opposed to the 22 gauge coming from the head unit. I just cut them off the plug as well as the matching speaker wires and soldered them together, thus bypassing the amp. The point of all this is you can use any headunit and wire directly to the speakers by making this modification. Took about an hour after I learned the wire colors. You could also install line level output adapters instead of splicing and use an aftermarket amp as an alternative.
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