Help With Bose

**b5s4blk** · 04-11-2008 05:31 AM

2001.5 S4 Bose

A couple of months ago i replaced the bose symphony head unit with a sony head unit using the metra kit below.

Everything worked perfectly fine for about 2 months then the bose amp randomnly stopped working and only the drivers side cell phone speaker was working. I took out the head unit, check all connections everything was fine. speakers still wouldnt work. Then the next day everything worked fine again. Everything worked fine for a couple days, bose amp worked, all speakers worked, my added amp and subs worked fine. Then i get in the car today and the bose amp, aftermarket amp and all speakers arent working. Go around a tight turn on an exit ramp and everything works again. Couple miles down the road everything craps out again.

I know all the connections behind the headunit are good.
Does anyone have any idea what other connections could be loose that are causing the bose amp to crap in and out? The pin connector into the amp in the truck is securely in. Does the bose amp have its own ground wire/strap that could be loose???? The weird thing is that when ever the bose amp craps out so does my aftermarket amp. It seems to be that there is a problem with the remote wire and is not telling the amps to turn on, but all the connections are good and sometimes it will work absolutely fine for a couple hours/days. It just doesnt make sense to me because it all worked fine since christmas untill last week.
Thanks in advance

**gointoscott** · 04-11-2008 06:41 AM

My guess would be a short somewhere in the wiring. Those are no fun to trying to find. I'd go to the amp in the trunk and check connections on that and go from there.

Could also maybe be the amp is going bad??? But thats hust a guess. does def sound like a short somewhere.

**b5s4blk** · 04-12-2008 09:40 AM

figured it out. Thanks

**BastardS4** · 04-12-2008 10:34 AM

so what was it?

**KompMan420** · 04-12-2008 01:24 PM

My guess is a lose power wire or ground...

**ny02s4** · 04-12-2008 08:28 PM

im guessing the remote wire was shorting out causing the amp to turn on and off randomly.

and why did you actually wire up the GPS speaker on the driver door? there is no need for it, lol

**b5s4blk** · 04-14-2008 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by ny02s4

im guessing the remote wire was shorting out causing the amp to turn on and off randomly.

and why did you actually wire up the GPS speaker on the driver door? there is no need for it, lol

i didnt go out of my way to wire it up. i plugged in the harness, then the rca's for the front and rear speakers and the amp.

**Unispeed** · 04-29-2008 10:05 PM

I am having the same problem, only my speakers wont give off any sound. The RCA cables are all plugged in and so is the blue and white wire (amp swich on/off) Where is the amp in this car... havent really looked for it.. maybe a wire is loose there...