Bose Amps

[SteveCanyon]

I need to replace or rebuild the amps in my 90. Is it best to just buy new ones or just have them rebuilt? Or is there another option? I found a place online who will rebuild them with a lifetime warranty for $80 each so may just send them all in. Always looking for a cheaper solution though.

[mike100]

Search a little more about replacing them with used amplifiers from Nissan maximas. They are almost exactly the same and the plug and play. I can buy them in junk yards all day long for $4-$8 each. Many of us have stock piled since C4's tend to multiply if you have the space.

[SteveCanyon]

What year maxima? Got a part number?

[mike100]

Search this forum of CF for nissan amplifiers for corvette or Dynomite's sticky here in his encyclopedia corvettia (Solutions) that has more info than you could ever find in one place.

to directly answer your question, 95-99 maximas or i30 infiniti clones with the bose radio (some don't have bose). there are a couple of different part numbers- some from other vehicles that will work, some that don't, but for sure the 95-99 maximas do.

[SteveCanyon]

Cool thanks! I guess you run the risk of buying used ones that are bad too.

[mike100]

Originally Posted by SteveCanyon

Cool thanks! I guess you run the risk of buying used ones that are bad too.

i'm feeling generous-
http://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/...uidance-4.html

I haven't found a bad one yet. The nissan ones are newer for one, but also i think they solved the issue with the capacitors going bad and drying out by the late 90's. I had repaired a few before, but it takes too long compared to getting the bucket loads of cheap junkyard ones- it's like a cornucopia of audio parts since everybody is throwing away those 90 maximas and they are just everywhere right now.

[Dynomite]

Originally Posted by mike100

Search this forum of CF for nissan amplifiers for corvette or Dynomite's sticky here in his encyclopedia corvettia (Solutions) that has more info than you could ever find in one place.

to directly answer your question, 95-99 maximas or i30 infiniti clones with the bose radio (some don't have bose). there are a couple of different part numbers- some from other vehicles that will work, some that don't, but for sure the 95-99 maximas do.

See Bose Speaker Amp Options TIPS

Bose Speaker Amps and CDM Replace

[SteveCanyon]

Can you use the 975s in front and rear or do the rears need the 075s?

[Dynomite]

Originally Posted by SteveCanyon

Can you use the 975s in front and rear or do the rears need the 075s?

There are 975 fronts and 975 rears.
There are 075 fronts and 075 rears.

Do not mix front and rears.

[mike100]

Originally Posted by SteveCanyon

Can you use the 975s in front and rear or do the rears need the 075s?

Not enough information has been shared to know if the number has anything to do with the front/rear designation, but both kinds work, just make sure to put it in back if it is marked 'rear' and so forth. I don't even remember what the ones I pulled out a few weeks ago were marked as, but the rear ones are tuned for more bass so don't mix them up.