[V8] V8 radio replacement

[Dave Saad]

Just out of curiosity, what is wrong with your existing radio?
A clever and competent electronic tech (hard to find these days) could most likely get it working again.

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On Feb 13, 2013, at 12:43 AM, "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> I’m continuing a long term search for an audio system for my V8.  There are a couple of items in my ‘90 V8 that don’t work among which are the heated seats and the radio.  Only my wife really cares about the seat but we both would like to find a radio that would work in the car and I am not having a whole lot of luck.  Thus I thought I’d consult here with the V8 brain trust.
> 
> The car originally came with a Bose system (of course!) that included a Blaupunkt sourced headunit.  There were two Bose headunits used in these cars, one by Clarion which I believe was in the later V8’s and the Blaupunkt like mine. The Blaupunkt in my car has died and I have found after communicating with a bunch of car stereo type people on line that the Blau unit cannot be repaired as parts are nla.  I have had ZERO luck finding a known good oem headunit WITH code and have given that up entirely.
> 
> Soooo.  The plan now is to replace the headunit with something else and that seems to be a problem because it appears there is little room to slide something in which seriously limits the options.
> 
> I have ZERO confidence in stereo repair/sales/service places in Maine of which there are very few anyway...on in Bangor, two in the greater Portland area and of course, Sears and those, but I won’t go there with this car at all.  Tomorrow I am driving to Portland (almost 100 miles each way!  Yay!), so I may drop in to the shop in Portland if I have time....I did business with them once upon a time for my wife’s (wife at that time!) 1985 Audi Avant, but that is a different story about a different life and doesn’t work well here.
> 
> I am trying to interface with the existing Bose speakers because they were rebuilt by the dealer that sold me the car to begin with and when the radio was working, they worked very, very well.  As I understand the speakers in the V8, they are all independently powered, so the theory is that if I take power from a pre-amp out port on a radio they should interface. We have long ago upgraded the radio in my wife’s ‘94 100CS using a Nakamichi headunit that interfaces well.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone here has done a head unit switch with satisfactory results?  I am looking now at Nakamichi headunits that are new in the box, and thinking of trying to duplicate the system that is in my wife’s station wagon since that really does work well.  I will consider either a CD or cassette system since I have a cassette adapter we have used in the car with the old head  unit.
> 
> any thoughts will be appreciated.  I don’t mind listening to the sounds of the car, but listening to Wagner while bashing around Maine’s rural roads is cool, too.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Roger
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