How do I hook up a sub to the Bose system?

[Kilroy]

i've never had a bose in any of my cars but would it be wacky to just get a different head unit and run your own amp? or get a different head unit and run both amps. i don't know how the bose amp is connected to the head unit or if its straight to the battery for power. seems like you could run rca's out of a head unit to either amp. the bose on the 6x9s or the little sub it powers if it has one and the sub rca out to your aftermarket amp.

Please re-read the title of this thread, and then re-try to reply properly.

[mrlogic1234]

Please re-read the title of this thread, and then re-try to reply properly.

He may have been off, but he's trying to help. You guys should be more grateful to those making suggestions.

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[Shiftingshaddow]

Please re-read the title of this thread, and then re-try to reply properly.

Or you could have simply ignored it and saved yourself the time. I reread the title and still think it sounds silly. You want to power a sub with the stock amp?.......I thought the amp already powered a small sub mounted under the back window as is the case with the bose in my brother's maxima.

Regardless, I don't know why you just wouldn't run your own good amp and good sub But if you're using a stock head unit you probably don't care too much about sound--in which case get a crappy low rated sub and hook it with your 6x9's. It will power it for average listening--which is what you get with the stock head unit anyway. If the amp is hooked to the 6x9s and there isn't a sub then just hook the sub to the connectors on the 6x9s in the trunk. The amp will power both and I doubt it will hurt the amp if you aren't blasting it. Even without an amp this would work. I did it in two cars before I knew how to run an amp or sub--or anything--with a sub I was given for free. If it has a stock sub then you can still probably run another off of it hooked in either series or parallel (daisy chained) and there is probably a crossover built in factory?

But whatever