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as you do on a Saturday night after a glass or two of a very nice white wine.
| Ihod Member Since: 07 Nov 2015 Location: Berkshire Posts: 165   
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If you are extremely lucky when you remove the cubby box you may find your van was waiting for it......if that’s the case, you will find the connector under the box (the original looms differ if the sub was spec’d as an option on build but oddly some vans have it (with no sub) and others don’t.......very LR).
If you don’t and don’t want to mess about, Martin (on the forum) sells a very nicely made loom which does exactly what you need. It has the OEM connector, RCAs for the sub, remote wire to call for power and the connectors back to the battery and is well worth the £ simply not to have to mess about. As for mounting, I used the original cubby and drilled it (replicating the factory install). Obviously that’s a wooden box so you might add dynamat to yours, or similar, to avoid vibration? Good luck. It hugely improves the sound quality from the Alpine, even without changing out the original LR speakers. The above assumes your sub is the LR version with the single grey block connector on the rear. Ian MY1998 300Tdi 90 Hard Top (Now Soft Top) MY2015 110 XS SW - Sold MY2008 110 County USW - Sold MY1962 Series IIa Truck Cab - Sold MY1994 300Tdi 90 Hard Top - Sold MY2001 TD5 90 Truck Cab - Sold |
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13th Dec 2020 3:44am |
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| Co1 Member Since: 19 Aug 2018 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 3676 
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Hopefully you have the connector under the cubby. The there is a connector behind the head unit that connects the loom under the cubby to the head unit, however you usually need an adaptor for this. Martin made it for me for a lot less than OEM. I did post about it on here so I’ll have a look and put a link up n
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13th Dec 2020 8:18am |
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| Co1 Member Since: 19 Aug 2018 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 3676
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Three or four posts down on here for the connector look you need. With this and assuming you have the connector under the cubby already it’s a piece of cake. You do need to turn it on at the head unit though, it’s in the menu somewhere. When you get to it on the menu, if it says “subwoofer on”, it’s actually off, you need to push the button in for it to come on or something daft like that.
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13th Dec 2020 8:24am |
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| Sulisuli Member Since: 30 Oct 2016 Location: South west Posts: 4795 
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Thankyou Gents that’s very kind of you both
 2015 HT XS 90
2008 SVX 90 2000 XS TD5 90 |
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13th Dec 2020 1:05pm |
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