1996 Land Rover Discovery

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Topic: 1996 Land Rover Discovery

Posted By: Paulie_m
Subject: 1996 Land Rover Discovery
Date Posted: August 01, 2005 at 10:49 AM

1996 Land Rover Discovery
Factory Amp Bypass

Just wondering if anyone knows how I can bypass the factory amp on this vehicle quickly? It is located in the passenger kick panel and I tried to pop the speakers with a battery but to no avail. I have the volkswagen harness with amplifier lead but it is not working. The vehicle is at work right now and I'm leaving to go work on it soon. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Just get 'er done!

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Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: August 01, 2005 at 11:27 AM

When you pop the speaker's are you using the output harness on the amplifier to test the speaker's or at the HU ?Use the wires at the output on the amp to wire in a new HU

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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA

Posted By: nam-eci
Date Posted: August 01, 2005 at 3:43 PM

I thought on those the speakers arn't usually amp'd

Only the x2 8"subs in the tail gate?

I dunno?

Posted By: Paulie_m
Date Posted: August 02, 2005 at 10:29 AM

Thanks for the quick reply, I got it to work..........
I wired up all the speakers from the HU to the amp output harness and it sounded amazing compared to the factory HU. My customer was was so happy he asked if he could have the CD I used to demo the new HU.
Thanks again brothers!

Paul.

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Just get 'er done!

Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: August 02, 2005 at 1:07 PM

No problemo

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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA

Posted By: bazzgazm
Date Posted: August 02, 2005 at 2:23 PM

Land Rover Discovery.
Amp is in the passenger footwell, Small box, you can run speaker wire to it, but you'll lose the 6.5" woofers in the liftgate area. OR. YOu can hunt down the wiring codes for the deck Which are "LOW LEVEL" or rca type connections. Those will give you a Ground followed by a left and right signal. That will keep your factory subwoofers in the lift gate working.