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Re: Subject: E28 Amplifier?

nathan ( [email protected] ) wrote:

>Subject: E28 Amplifier?
>
>I just installed a cd player in my 85 535i.  I guess I have to run wires,
>because I don't feel like trying to wire up the stock amp.  But anyway, for
>the sake of losing a pound of weight (my car needs a major diet!)  Where
>exactly is the amp?  I just barely looked around for it today and couldn't
>find it?  Is it in the trunk?  Thanks!


            The E28 amplifier is in the trunk, hanging from the left side of
the parcel shelf.  I assume you're saying that you got a new CD-player head
unit (not a changer that you want to plug into the stock radio).  You will
probably end up re-wiring the car from scratch, the original radio's wiring
goes to the amp directly, not to the speakers.  To tap into the wiring for
the speakers, you need to get into the one big connector coming out of the
amp... it's such a PITA (although I did it for an E30) that you will spend
only slightly more time but get better results (new, thicker wires
hopefully) by running all-new wires to all four corners of the car.

- - Rob Levinson
"to all the E28s I've loved before... who've wandered in and out my door..."
<-Willy Nelso impersonation

www.bubbaclub.com/rob/m5

www.shortshifter.com

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