Hi all,

I've had my pioneer D3 for a while now on my old car vw gti and the deck worked wonder. Recently picked up a mazdaspeed3 GT (bose) and i'm not sure how to make this work with my bose components.

On the mazda, the factory deck and amp is seperated. I matched the color wires on the wiring harness but I am not getting any volume when i turn the deck on I think because the bose amp isn't turned on?

I know the speakers on my car are currently 2ohm which won't work with the D3's built in amp. Does that mean I have to replace all speakers in my car plus rewire it? or is there another way around that I can make the factory bose amp work with the D3? In my old car it was a simply matching the wire harness which was much easier.

Hi all,

 

I've had my pioneer D3 for a while now on my old car vw gti and the deck worked wonder. Recently picked up a mazdaspeed3 GT (bose) and i'm not sure how to make this work with my bose components.

 

On the mazda, the factory deck and amp is seperated. I matched the color wires on the wiring harness but I am not getting any volume when i turn the deck on I think because the bose amp isn't turned on?

 

I know the speakers on my car are currently 2ohm which won't work with the D3's built in amp. Does that mean I have to replace all speakers in my car plus rewire it? or is there another way around that I can make the factory bose amp work with the D3? In my old car it was a simply matching the wire harness which was much easier.

its the same thing in the rx8, and i had the same problem for about a day. i couldnt figure out why i wasnt hearing sound until like 24 hours later it hit me that the amp had no power. its not turning on because u dont have power going to it without a bose adaptor. check metra and crutchfield for the right adaptor and you'll be fine