when i bought my car, the previous owner had a system in the trunk but he took it out before he sold me it. he took out the factory sub when he installed his system and didnt have it when he sold me the car so now i have no sub. i recently purchased a 12" alpine type-r sub and a mtx thunder amp. i searched and read a lot about LOCs and things like that but everything was about if there is a factory bose sub in. what is the simplest way to install my new sub and amp into my trunk? i dont have any wires at all because i bought them off of a friend who upgraded his system and he didnt have the wires, so could you tell me everything i need to buy and what i have to do to install it.


here are some pictures of what my trunk looks like right now where the sub used to be:

these are some wires just hanging there. im guessing they are what plugged into the bose sub.

this is the empty space for the sub.

 

The stock bose woofer is a 8" i believe, so that 12" hype-r wouldn't fit - you'd have to build a box for it.

In the first picture - the 4 wires dangling from the wire loom. Those are the wires that you will be using for the LOC (Assuming you have a stock HU)

Look around your trunk and look for a power/ground/remote wire (Two bigger wires, and 1 small thin wire)
If you don't have those;
You'll need to run a power wire from your battery to your trunk (Fused at the battery side)
Make a ground in the trunk
Run a remote wire from your HU to trunk

If you're running an aftermarket HU, you'll need a longer run of RCA's, approx. 15ft.
If you're running with stock HU, you'll be using that LOC. In which case your RCA's only have to be long enough to go from the LOC to your amp (~3ft at most?)

 

my bad i forgot to include that i have a factory headunit and plan on keeping that in there

 

If you still have original wires going to stock amp (behind the rear seat on the right hand side), then this thread will help you how to hook up aftermarket sub and amp. https://acurazine.com/forums/audio-video-electronics-navigation-22/need-help-advice-anything-adding-sub-185395/

 

you would need a basic wire kit. atleast a 8gauge power cable with a brown ground 8 gauge wire with a pair of long rca's and 1 thin wire for the remote. the instalation is a bit more difficult to explain. u gotta run the power from the battery to the trunk. the rcas from the radio to the trunk and the remote. then u need to connect the ground to sumtin metal in the trunk and basicly just plug everything in. if u need more assistance just email me back.