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If it sounds better to you with the rear speakers playing, then they have a purpose. It's your car, not anyone else's. Your opinion is the only one that matters.

You need to remove the cover over the rear deck. It bends pretty easily, so you can just try pulling up on the middle part of it; but there's a chance you'll put a crease in it. That's the easiest way of doing it, though. The other way is to remove the back seat entirely, then pull off the...

You do have a factory amp, though I'm not sure where it's located in the Montero. If you're keeping the stock speakers, you can buy a special harness that lets you use the factory amp with the new head unit. Here's a link. The Metra model number is 70-7003, if you want to call around and see...

What are you using to test the voltage? And are you testing with the audio system turned on, or off?

What kind of vehicle is this? The comfort closure feature is meant to be used with vehicles that automatically roll the windows up when you hold the key in the door lock. Operating window motors directly, through a timed circuit, is usually not recommended; for safety reasons and because it...

Nissan Bose systems are usually pretty easy to integrate. You don't really need any premium sound adapter, but it might work out better if you can use the deck's pre-outs to feed the Bose amp instead of the speaker outputs. Either way will work, but if you connect the Alpine's speaker...

There's no significant difference in voltage drop between a 100-amp fuse and a 300-amp fuse, given a current flow of 100 amps or less. Voltage drop is the product of resistance and current. Lower current won't cause much voltage loss, and higher current will cause the fuse to blow. You don't...

If you're not blowing the 100-amp fuse, there's no reason to replace it.

A 2-door Stratus is basically a Mitsubishi Eclipse. If your vehicle is an automatic, you may be able to drill through the clutch plate on the firewall. Otherwise see if you can tell where the stock wiring runs through.

Two 4-gauge wires can handle more than 100 amps, but there's no reason to upgrade the fuse if you don't need to. A fuse, regardless of size, doesn't restrict current until it blows.

You can get mounting cable ties from Parts Express.

A Pioneer CD changer would hook up to the P-bus input, correct. However, without an actual CD changer to communicate with the head unit, you wouldn't be able to select CD Changer as a source. The P-Bus aux input on the page you linked (and the actual P-Bus aux input available from Pioneer)...

You can purchase a voice module that can be added to any alarm system.

You need a mounting cable tie.

The "hack" won't work for you. Even if you purchased the Pioneer adapter, it's only for head units that are designed to use the P-bus plug as an aux input. Yours is not equipped with that feature.