Audio help

greg05scoop · Newbie (Taking the short-cut)

Audio help

SPDinNY · Motorer

if you have the wires cut, just ground the negative side of a speaker to the chassis, then balance your stereo to rear right and connect each wire one at a time to the positive terminal of the speaker until one wire make it play loudly. Then do the same for the other side. You can use a home speaker if you want since they are usually 6 or 8 ohm.

-- Edited by SPDinNY at 11:23, 2007-08-14

greg05scoop · Newbie (Taking the short-cut)

I was hoping to cut only the 4 wires and splice in the converter.
thanks though

SPDinNY · Motorer

well you can pop off a speaker and do the same with the terminal. Where are you installing the amp? Under a seat?

greg05scoop · Newbie (Taking the short-cut)

installing the amp in the trunk, the problem with popping off the back speakers is it looks like the whole back panel has to be taken off. BIG project. I don't think the speaker screen comes off on its own OR am I wrong?

SPDinNY · Motorer

oh and for line convertors or high level inputs usually just using the + signal is enough, if you use the negative side it could mess up your radio depending on its design.

SPDinNY · Motorer

usually back panels pop off pretty easily, I dont know on the mini but 99% of other cars do. Speakers are something that are replaced quite often so I imagine it cant be that big of an undertaking.

greg05scoop · Newbie (Taking the short-cut)

That was my assumtion as well, and may be my best out. Thanks again for all your help.

SPDinNY · Motorer

no prob

yellowmininy · Obsessed (Taking the long-cut)

You might be able to find some info on MINI2's Interior section,
http://www.mini2.com/forum/interior-ice/

Also GBMINI, Ian Cull's website might have info (he has done audio installs on his 4 Minis)
http://www.gbmini.net/wp/introduction

TOWNEMINI · Towne MINI - Official

As far as taking rear panels off being easy, it is not like 99% of other vehicles, you do have to remove the seats to do so. Although its not hard, just time consuming, not even the techs enjoy doing that, fortunatly we seldomly replace the rear speakers, just a midrange in the doors from time to time. Again i wish i could be of more help supplying the correct wires, i just dont have the schematic available to release. Also there are many different wiring harness for different stereos, cd players, cassette players through out the years and would hate to lead you into the wrong direction.

SPDinNY · Motorer

TOWNEMINI wrote:

As far as taking rear panels off being easy, it is not like 99% of other vehicles, you do have to remove the seats to do so. Although its not hard, just time consuming, not even the techs enjoy doing that, fortunatly we seldomly replace the rear speakers, just a midrange in the doors from time to time. Again i wish i could be of more help supplying the correct wires, i just dont have the schematic available to release. Also there are many different wiring harness for different stereos, cd players, cassette players through out the years and would hate to lead you into the wrong direction.

good info, if you need some help I may be able to lend a hand depending on where you live.