new owner owner of '91 200

[Ed Kellock]

Interesting.  I'll have to try that next time.  Running speaker wire really
wasn't that tough though.  I fished it behind the knee bolster with a fish
tape, ran it along the wire bundle and through the same wire stays in the
trunk and used butt connectors to connect everything.  I only installed rear
speakers to begin with.  The stock speaker enclosers required just a tad of
modification to the bolt posts to match snugly with the speakers I chose,
and I used the same Bose speaker grills.  The floating high and midrange
bits were centered in the opening and the bass it great as well.  The only
real bugaboo in the whole thing was to get the deck to fit in the opening
because of the small ribs that are in the plastic to steady/snug the OE
deck.  These had to be "machined" down.  Also the opening is quite deep so I
used a hack saw blade to "relieve" each of the corners by cutting them up
about an inch or so.  The DIN adapter sleeve fit in nice and snug and
everything is tight and rattle-free.  

As soon as I have any substantial trouble with my other Bose systems, I
won't hesitate to go this route again and improve on the install.

Ed
 


-----Original Message-----
From: 200q20v-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:200q20v-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Bernie Benz
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 8:08 AM
To: Tony Hoffman
Cc: o; 200q20v at audifans.com
Subject: Re: new owner owner of '91 200


Not true, about needing new speaker wires! Existing wires are  
sufficient to drive old or new speakers directly from the HU,  
bypassing the amps.

Bernie

On Jun 18, 2011, at 5:00 AM, Tony Hoffman wrote:

> Only the Bose will work then. The Bose system uses seperate
> amplifiers in
> each of the speakers, none in the doors. You will have to run new  
> speaker
> wire if you choose to replace the factory system correctly.
>
> I have one of those $25 radio's in my V8, so no, it's not too good
> to be
> true. However, they may have sold out, that was years ago when I  
> bought
> mine.
>
> BTW, I had to do the repair on my V8 Q instrument cluster (they are
> slightly
> different, but similar nonetheless) and Mine worked great ever  
> since I got
> it right. However, it took four times for that result :( In the end I
> resoldered every major connection, and that's what fixed it.
>
> Tony
>
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:25 AM, o <opotamus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone, thanks for the welcome. I guess I will keep on eye on
>> ebay and
>> other marketplaces. About the radio, I was hoping for something  
>> cheap, and
>> I
>> figured the original cassette should be reasonable. $25 refurb  
>> sounds too
>> good to be true, but I couldn't find it. Is there more info or  
>> part number
>> available for the blaupunkt that was mentioned? Is this the same  
>> as the
>> original? I'd rather not splurge on this so I can save funds for when
>> something more important decideds to fail. Question though, I have  
>> learned
>> that there are two possible original radios. The only thing I know  
>> about
>> mine is the front door speakers say Audi Bose. Will either of them  
>> work, or
>> is there only one for the Bose speakers?
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