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    cant open rear door

    Update: as I've posted, it decided to unlock this morning for the first time in a week or so... I was already running late for work, so just took the 2 screws out and lifted the door card loose quickly then left it there and shut the door again to get going. Anything I should be particularly...
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    cant open rear door

    Mine's just picked up this problem (NSR door) in the last couple of days - no vacuum tubes and the lock knob tries to jump twice each unlock. No warning or previous dodginess that I was aware of. No amount of wiggling, thumping, leaning either way against the lock , holding up the knob (rises...
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    Well, that didn't work....

    My HU has 4v preouts, which is pretty high, but I got nothing at all, not just quiet. However, sounds like there's a lot of different variations around - the highest number of pins on a plug in my OE stereo is 20...... good luck! :)
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    Well, that didn't work....

    Colours at sub plug are (for my '01 A6 avant): pin#: wire colour:description 1:red/blue: +12v perm 2&3: blue/green and brown/red: +ve and -ve for rear left speaker (output from box) 4: brown: earth 5: white: remote live feed (mine had extra length on this wire under the wrapping) 6: white: a...
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    Well, that didn't work....

    Success! Wired my OE sub into one of the rear speaker wires and it plays just fine! Cut into the white+white/brown pair and tapped them into the same connector. Did it with the rear speakers disconnected first just in case of trouble, plays fine with them back too :) Oh, still used the...
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    New HU and no sound from rear speakers (but feeble output from sub)

    Success! Wired my OE sub into one of the rear speaker wires and it plays just fine! Easy for me to do as I was already feeding the HU speaker output to the OE speaker wires at the sub's plug (rather than finding them on each side by the doors) so cut into the white+white/brown pair and tapped...
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    New HU and no sound from rear speakers (but feeble output from sub)

    I'm in similar trouble on a similar post and I'm wondering if the sub needs RCA level feeds at all. I'm going to give it a speaker-level feed this weekend (I've already run wires back to run the rears from the HU and I tapped into the wires at the plug, 'cos it was there and easy) and see if I...
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    Testing an amp/sub in situ with seperate battery

    You need to give it a remote-on signal as well as main +ve.... for testing purposes, you can just run a feed from the power terminal; just remember so long as the battery is connected, the amp is on.
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    Aftermarket HU - Fronts twice as loud as Rears

    A lot of people would be happy with this as the front speakers give you all the staging for the music - ie, sounds like it's coming from in front of you, and you could point to the positions of the instruments/singer etc. Rears tend to muddy the staging, positionly and quality in general. Mine...
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    Well, that didn't work....

    The adaptor only feeds the RCAs (it has 4 of them; they share an earth before they reach the plug and merge the front and rear live wires on each side) to the correct wires for feeding the OE amp. I've double checked the connections with the Audi wiring diagram to make sure it's all hitting the...
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    Well, that didn't work....

    I've got a genesis profile 2 and a dragster da602 amps in the workshop, but very little time to do anything near a proper install at the mo :( Looking at gene profile 16s in the front and a Hertz energy 8" sub in the LHS (they run tiny enclosures) much like your set up... but no time! Found a...
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    Well, that didn't work....

    ...... and I don't know why :( I'm pretty good with ICE as a rule, came up with a cunning plan to fit my aftermarket HU instead of the Concert one (A6 Avant, 2001, non-BOSE). I wanted to keep the sub and amp, but switch the amplification to the fronts to get some staging. So I got the...
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    found a big box !

    The bose has an extra amp mounted on the plastic sub box. And whoever thought of amping the rears rather than the fronts needs shooting....
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    Rears,auto changer and sub don't work

    Try checking/improving the headlight earths.