Originally Posted by
zombiehunter
September, 2011 we got a big storm, Irene. My car took on water some how and flooded the passenger side footwell and destroyed the amp. They replaced the amp and it worked intermittently for a little while before just shutting off. I replaced the headunit thinking it might be that and got sound for about 5 seconds.
I went into the footwell and jiggled all the wires thinking it might have just been something loose since it was intermittently working but I still have nothing.
Any thoughts on what to check? It's the non-gps Inifinity system. Should I try just replacing the amp? What I'm reading though makes it look like the amp does a lot more than just the sound. I just want sound again, I don't care about high end stuff stock worked fine for me. What do you recommend I replace it with?
And yes, I know I should have just taken it back to the shop when the initial stuff started happening but I didn't because I had a ton of other stuff going on it at the time. Help a brother out.
You did check all the fuses, right ?
You can drive the door speakers fine with just about ANY after market head unit, it's those durn subs behind the seat that you need the amp for.
I you aren't into rattling the body work, then a good choice might be to replace the 2 subs with regular speakers, install a good $100 after market head unit and wire it all up manually bypassing the amp. You will then have left/right & front/rear fader control.
( hint: look at the marine units on crutchfield or sonic, they come in silver that matches pretty closely )
This one is $143 and it has integrated Blue Tooth :
http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_...rion-M502.html