Bose Wiring Diagram
 

Yep This is IT! A WHOPING 700k. Everything and anything you ever needed to know about the system's wires. Remember to hook it up to the amp relay to ignition power and not constant power. If you hook it up to constant power, the amps will stay on ALL the time and KILL your battery.

Here are your color codes.
L = Blue
B = Black
BR = Brown
DL = Dark Blue
DG = Dark Green
G = Green
GY = Gray
LB = Light Blue
LG = Light Green
N = Natural
O = Orange
P = Pink
R = Red
PU = Purple
T = Tan
W = White
Y = Yellow
V = Violet

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Great Job!!!
 

Great Job!!!


Couldn't want more than that.

Thanks FlyBye, that tells me everything I could ever need to know!

This is very helpful, thanks for posting it.

I'm replacing the stock harness with one for a radio out of my other car. (BTW, I'm also replacing the speakers)

Can someone please verify that I'm hooking it up to the right wires?

Specifically:

Mine: Stock:
Batt/Memory 1C
Ignition/Acces 1A
Ground 1J
Power Antenna 1D
Left Front + 1K
Left Front - 1L
Right Front + 1M
Right Front - 1N

@ the Door
Left + G
Left - L
Right + R
Right - W

Thanks!
Jeff

Sup guys. I sell/install car audio at circuit city and the bose system is one of the easiest factory amplified systems to bypass. If you nedd any help drop me a note. Also kind of ironic that it was putting a sterio in one a year ago that made me want one. i have an r1 so no bose for me!

Maybe you can help me redhat, I bought some 5.25 'supposedly' stock replacement speakers Infinity reference series, and to my dismay they do not fit the stock front bose speaker panels.

What's the way to go around that? and can I take off the bose amplifier completely since I will be routing the wire directly from the headunit through the door to the speakers.

If there is an easier way to install new speakers using the existing bose stereo wires, then let me know!

Also what is the easiest way to route power wires from the battery into the interior? I only see the fenderwell route, and that's about it.

Tx.

Timmy

Timmy, If you are going to completly replace the speakers in the doors to high output speakers, then you are better off yanking the stock wiring out and replacing it with some good high power cableing between the aftermarket speakers in the door over to the amps whereever you decide to install them. Rember that the Bose amps in the doors receive a low level input from the headunit.

A power cable..well...I've used the boot on the steering column for a few wires, so you may want to start there. If you don't want to punch a hole through it, then I'd simply drill a hole somewhere on the firewall and use a rubber grommet to push the cable through.

Wade Lanham did a big write-up on the Bose system and other stereos. See my site and go to Upgrades --> Body & Interior --> Stereo.

For additional Bose and stereo info, see my site, and go to: How-to --> Electrical --> Stereo.

Cheers,

Steve
http://www.ScuderiaCiriani.com/rx7

This is cool! Where did ya get it? Great stuff food for thought indeed. Thanks for posting.

It's directly out of the factory Shop manual :)

those codes dont tell you anything but abreviation. now what do they mean, for example which one goes to the dimmer or which one goes to the front right speaker thats what i need to know

Was just wondering if it wouldn't be too much trouble to repost the diagram pic? It's not working anymore...

Sorry. I forgot about this pic when I switched servers. There ya go.

You see where it says DOOR SPEAKER AMP MODULE RH? That's your right door speaker amp module...

The dimmer wire is not on this page. If you need it, I'll hunt through the wiring harness book for you.

Thanks!:)

i need to know the color codes of the speakers like which color is the rear right or the front left you i need that info thanx matter affact do you have the diagram for the non bose sytem

It's right on the chart man. For example, look at the left speaker. You see the positive and negative wire for the audio? The positive is G (Green) and the negative is L (Blue)

Yeah, I also got the stock wiring harness, but I don't have a scanner anymore. Let me know what color wires you want out of that, and I'll post them up here.

DAMN THAT'S A HUGE DIAGRAM!!!

cant print the diagram;
too many bits,
and cant carry the desktop out to the car.
Could this be reformated into compressed jpeg or something to simplify life.?

just a thought. thanks

When you are going to try to print it, just look for an option that says "Fit to Page"

This option will compress the image so that it fits on a letter size paper. This images needs to be of high definition because if it were of lesser quality, it would look like ass when you try to compress it to letter size.

ok those diagrams confuse me so much! i hooked up a new deck to replace the old aftermarket one that was already in there when i bought the car, and i just switched the wires he had on the harness for the ones on the new deck harness and it works fine. Flybye mentioned to hook it up to the amp relay to ignition power and not the constant power.

can anyone tell me which color wire the amp relay is? or, ive had this deck in for a few days, and im sure the old deck has been in for at least 2 months, if it was hooked up to the wrong wire, would my battery already be toast? thanks!

As a suggestion if you covert the image to gif and reduce the colors to 1bit the image will be around 150k. This should save a bit of server bandwidth etc. Jpeg is better for continuous tone type graphics.

Thanks for posting the image. Helps a lot.

can any body help me i need a fc aftermarket radio wireing diagram

would this wiring diagram be applicable or identical to the series 8 RX7 200 model?....

thanks so much...

cheers

Honestly, I have no idea.
I copied this out of my 1993 FD Wiring Diagram, and pretty much applies to the 94 and 95 US spec.

I'm wondering if anyone knows the voltage spread the stock aplifiers take, or the stock voltage spread the stock headunit puts out.

From what I've read, if you have a new head unit that has 5V preamp outputs, you can (might be able to) wire those directly into the bose harness in the car (drive the stock drivers and local amps with the 5V preamp output of the headunit).

But I'm looking for confirmation.

I've Confirmed. I wired from the 5V RCA pre-amp outputs direct into the Bose harness with all teh stock Bose gear still in the car. I was even able to turn off the amp in the headunit. The sound at low and mid levels is amazing. At highest levels (ie, drivign with the sunroof and windows open and still being able to hear) I'm getting some static - not normal distortion, but some other - only occasional - noise/static. I have no idea if this is because of my wiring solution or not at this point.

I have the Adapter and may try it just to see if I get a more reliable high-volume sound - maybe it will remove some grounding issue, interference, or static buildup issues? we will see.

But in terms of whether it works, and whether the voltage is compatible with a 5V preamp out - it sure is.

Question.....
Can i splice the center speaker wires into the left and right speaker wires? i want to bypass my center amp because it is making a buzzing noise with the engine and i already have a seperate amp hooked up to my left and right speakers.
So on the diagram it would be the V/Y wire connected to both the G and R wires on the right and left speakers and cutting the wires (G and R) from the center amp. The same goes for the negative side of the center speaker: the Y/G wire on the center speaker connected to both the L and W wires on the left and right speakers, again, disconnecting these wires (L and W) from the center amp.

For anyone that is interested, I posted a thread about installing a newer model Modular DIN unit into the RX-7 equipped with Bose. Here is the link. https://www.rx7club.com/interior-exterior-audio-26/bose-modular-din-radio-install-513449/

It also includes the pinouts for the radio harness.

Joe

Sorry posted this in 2 places but I want to get this wired up today if poss.

Just found this and thanks very much!

Can someone check my diagram to make sure I've got it sorted correctly please? Mine is non-BOSE but I have the service manual and the two connectors are pretty much the same.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...Misc/audio.jpg

Many thanks!

Does anybody know what the high failure components INSIDE of the stock center channel amplifier are. NOTICE I SAID INSIDE OF THE AMPLIFIER.

Thanks,
Ken

hey i was wondering if anyone know the function of the 2nd (grey) connector on the wave sub. there are two wires that run into the sub from that connector (red, and green) thanks guys, heath
:)

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I was wondering the same thing

is this digram good for what years rx7? 1993? 1994?

Wow nice job. Very handy i like it. Thank you

Is this for the FC or FD or both?

wow if only i saw this before i through away my bose setup! :(

for anyone who can help...

i got my car with the bose system in it and it had a kenwood deck installed with all the speakers and the bose system in the back working. recently, it stopped working and i pulled the harness kenwood harness out and replaced it with a new one.

well, i noticed the original kenwood harness that was in there was wired in all sorts of screwy and ridiculous. it didnt make sense to me. i wired it in "properly" color to color and now i doesnt work at all. it was wired in previously with the speaker wires on the kenwood harness together going to to 1 wire on the car harness. such as, grey and grey/black both going to just grey. it was weird how it was. i have to put it back the way it was but to no avail.

i have gotten as far as power but no audio. before you go and tell me that i need that adapter.... your wrong. it was working before without it so it should work now. anyone who has any idea as to how it may have been or what i could possible do, it would be greatly appreciated...

The little adapter is not required....but it makes tuning of the system a LOT easier. I wanted to be able to raise the volume of my radio all the way up and not make the speakers sound like poop. So the adapter allowed me to lower the input to where I needed it to be so that it doesn't damage the Bose amps or speakers.

Just remember that each Bose speaker has its own amplifier that needs power. I'd first check the wiring to one of the side speakers and get power connected to it and speaker output from the head unit to see how it goes. The door speakers have 4 wires. Power and ground for the amp and + & - for audio.

thank, very very helpful!

I believe the little grey adapter (2 wire green and red) is to test the speakers, it goes directly to the +/- of both speakers. ie direct input from another stereo (unplug the connectors to the amps)

Just got this pdf from bose customer support, its 638kb, surpasses the attachment limit of 100kb for posting here.

it's a reprint from January/February 1993 Car Stereo Review, with a functional block diagram and a cad drawing of the enclosures.

Help please!

I have a jdm 96 spec series 7, I have tried to put a new jvc unit to replace the factory unit. All wired in etc but absolutely no sound now coming from speakers. Before with factory Unit the speakers worked. New unit has power etc just no sound coming out... What should I do.? Have I blown something maybe as the head deck is 55w?

More than likely you havent sent power to the amps. Did you see the wiring diagram for the wire that needs power to trigger the amps on?

I can't get the link for the bose wiring diagram to open. Is there another option to view this? -thanks

Here ya go:

http://itsflybye.com/public/images/R...g_diagram2.gif

The image isn't loading for me unfortunately. Does anyone have another link for it?

My bad. That server went bye bye, and I need to dig up the pic. Stay tuned, but I might not be able to get it by Monday, though.

Here ya go.