teagueAMX
CarAudio.com Newbie
Folks I need your collective genius brains to give me some guidance.
I have a ’06 Lincoln Navigator with a bad navigation/THX audio system - sounds good when it works.
I’m replacing it with a Pioneer AVIC-W8500NEX. No one makes a harness for the Navigator’s system, but I’ve figured out the wires EXCEPT into the OE amp.
I figure I have 3 choices:
1. Run my speaker wire outputs directly into the OE amp, but maybe not so good?
2. Use some tricky little parts from Amazon to convert the Pioneer RCA pre-amp outputs
to single wires to feed the OE amp connector.
3. Scrap the OE Amp and install a new 5-channel amp. This sound quick and dirty, but none of the
other audio systems will work. It's like a taking a hatchet to audio system.
I like No. 1 best cus it’s easy and cheap and everything else works in the car the way it's suppose to work. I’m afraid I may be forcing too many positively charged electrons into the factory amp. And, I'm guess impedance issues?
The other thing is the OE subwoofer has it’s own amp.
I don’t want to rewire the whole car.
I have a ’06 Lincoln Navigator with a bad navigation/THX audio system - sounds good when it works.
I’m replacing it with a Pioneer AVIC-W8500NEX. No one makes a harness for the Navigator’s system, but I’ve figured out the wires EXCEPT into the OE amp.
I figure I have 3 choices:
1. Run my speaker wire outputs directly into the OE amp, but maybe not so good?
2. Use some tricky little parts from Amazon to convert the Pioneer RCA pre-amp outputs
to single wires to feed the OE amp connector.
3. Scrap the OE Amp and install a new 5-channel amp. This sound quick and dirty, but none of the
other audio systems will work. It's like a taking a hatchet to audio system.
I like No. 1 best cus it’s easy and cheap and everything else works in the car the way it's suppose to work. I’m afraid I may be forcing too many positively charged electrons into the factory amp. And, I'm guess impedance issues?
The other thing is the OE subwoofer has it’s own amp.
I don’t want to rewire the whole car.
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