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Subject:RADIO/CD PLAYER QUESTIONS
From:Sam Williams
Date:Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:20:19 EST

I installed a new CD/MP3 player before going across the country and back in
September/October.
Everything was fine when we left San Jose.
On the way back the rear speakers stopped working and the front speaker sound
really fuzzy now,
I went back to Circuit City and they said that there was no connection to the
rear speakers and that I must have overpowered them with my new stereo.
So I had put in 5 1/4" speakers with an adapter in the rear by the
air-conditioning.
When it was all done, nothing worked in the back.
The installer said that there is a VW supplied amplifier under the
speedometer console and that I must have blown that. The new stereo does not require an
amplifier so he can just bypass it.

Am I being cornswoggled or is this true?
Does anyone have a pair of good speaker for the front?
Or is there an option for new front speakers?
They talked about putting a tweeter in place of the old speaker and a 5 1/4
"cut into the door panel.

Sam W
63 singlecab
70 bay Westy
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