An car amplifier can also take up space in your trunk. If you don't fancy adding an car amplifier, but still want to make use out of your car subwoofer, then you can still connect it. You won't get the full potential out of the subwoofer, but if you have an 8 or 10 inch car subwoofer, it should play well just of the rear channel of the car headunit.
An car stereo has four channels, two for the front car speakers and two for the rear speakers. In order, to connect an aftermarket car subwoofer, you will need to disconnect the rear speakers from the wiring harness from the back of the stereo. This won't matter as such, as your front car speakers will work and only the rear ones will stop working. If you have an aftermarket headunit, the rear speaker wires are separated in green and purple pairs, standard ISO wiring harness colour. If you have an standard factory radio, the colours will most likely be different, you will need to find an wiring diagram online doing an quick google search for the type of radio you have.
Once you have identified the speaker wires, you will need to bridge the rear channels on your car headunit. This is because this will increase the power output within the internal amplifier of the car stereo and be enough to power your subwoofer. This will result in more volume and deeper bass. To bridge an car stereo it is simple. Connect the - wire from the left rear channel to the - speaker terminal and the + from the right rear channel to the + on the speaker terminal, using 12 gauge speaker wire. Once the car subwoofer is connected, increase the bass setting within the car stereo menu to drive up the bass. Try adding stuffing inside the subwoofer box to make it act into an bigger box for louder and deeper bass.
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