Premium Sound Owners

[XtRmn8]

Can anyone who has the premium sound system in their car please back me up here! I don’t know anyone with a BA who has premium sound so I can’t check myself.

BA’s fitted with premium sound have a small amp fitted in the left hand side of the boot, behind the black boot trim. My car has the ‘Prestige Sound’, which has the Premium sound speakers minus the colour screen, amp and sub.

I have checked my mum XT and my car and have discovered that I have a couple of spare plugs in the top left of my boot behind the boot trim, as per pics! The XT with factory sound does not have these plugs!! I now believe that my car with prestige sound has the “premium sound” wiring loom including the wiring for the amp that I am missing. The car also has the foot well lighting which is only found in cars with the premium sound wiring loom!

Click to Enlagre!

I want to put a small amp and sub in my boot and it would be good if all the wiring is there for the amp (power/remote/signal). This would save me a lot of trouble with fitting the amp and trying to get power to it and a remote wire, plus having to tap into the rear speakers for signal.

Can someone please have a look at their amp and tell me if the yellow and white plugs are used for the factory amp fitted to cars with premium sound.

Thanks in advance!

Edited 08/04/05 04:36 AM by XtRmn8

[fraggle]

I go look

[fraggle]

no grey plug

power seem to come up from further in the down the boot

[XtRmn8]

  fraggle said:

no grey plug

power seem to come up from further in the down the boot

Thanks mate!

Did you see if the yellow and white plugs were used for anything?

[Goose]

Couldn't find any Yellow or White plugs anywhere, Appears to be only a single grey plug going into the amp.

[Goose]

Just had a closer look at where your Yellow and White connector are located, I do not have the yellow, just the white.

In your pic, just to the left of the yellow connector is a corrogated tube, mine has that and that's where my amp connector comes from.

Take off the side carpet, and see where the fuel filler release cable comes from, around that area see if you have a small (20mmx8mm) connector. That should be the amp.

Adam

[XtRmn8]

Thanks guys!

I'll have another look to see if I can find anything in there.

[bob^]

I wouldn't bother anyway. The signal going to the amp is mono since it only drives the sub, and the power wires are pretty small. Also the remote turn-on wire isn't like your regular remote wire. It's of a very very small diameter and probing it with a multimeter couldn't get any kind of reading.

I also discovered that if you unplug the amp, and then plug it back in without turning the headunit off, the amp will not power up. Which leads me to believe that it uses some kind of +5v switching in the amp, but also relies on the diagnostic wire comming out of the amp.

[XtRmn8]

I had another look and there is no grey plug anywhere!

Might be just easier to run an install kit. I am just not sure how to get the signal for the amp. Would it be a good idea to tap a line level converter into the back speaker wires, while also keeping the back speakers?

Cheers!

[bob^]

What are you trying to do? Just add a sub? or you plan on changing the fronts and amping them too? If your going to do the fronts, then I'd use the tweeter wiring in the pillar for the line level converter inputs as it allows you to fade out the rears if need be. I've faded my rears out about half.