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Originally Posted by soundman98
the speakers don't work. there was just a massive thread about exactly this.
from the factory, the amp is connected like any other 86, and then the dealers are given specific instructions to install the jumper, and pull the amp fuse, among other things as part of the standard dealer prep. the thread ended up going over the process that the dealers were supposed to do that they didn't.
the hakone edition comes with a different radio that doesn't output the signal that the amp is looking for, so the amp just doesn't work. i'm not clear on weather it's not turning the amp on, or if they switched line level for speaker level outputs, but no matter the case, there's no audio output from the speakers.
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Yeah I know all of this. I was the OP for that thread.
My question was whether one "could" get the amp to work. The DC power plug does not go through the radio and should work, and the speaker input/output is the same. The issue is the line to "turn the amp on" (I think). Could it somehow be hooked to a switch? Is it just a +12V signal? If so, hooking it to a switched circuit off of the ignition ought to do the job. Maybe off the 12V plug in the center console? One could hook up an "amp on" switch?
Keep in mind that there is no way the speakers could have worked as delivered because the amp fuse was pulled by the installer (at the port I think) before we got our cars. Toyota just failed to install the speaker loopback connectors which was a 30 second job once we knew what to do.
Doug