I have a MY04 WRX with the silver double din head unit. Please could anybody tell me whether this has an RCA Pre-out on it as I would like to connect an amp and sub in the boot.

Before everybody keeps telling me the head unit is crap and I need another one, I am quite aware of this; however it is a company car so I need to keep the original head unit in place.

The plan is to replace the fronts with infinity's and then install an active sub that I can easily disconnect from the boot when servicing is due etc.

Any help would be appreciated, if anybody has the old head unit lying around a nice pic of the rear connectors would be brilliant.


Thanks

 

Standard unit has no pre-outs I'm afraid. I would suggest replacing it; you could always put it back when you have to give the car back.


If you don't want to make changes which are visible, then I guess you could run an amp off the HU 'speaker outputs but it's not ideal.

 

here you go.



The white connector is speakers, ground, power, memory etc.

The big black connector at the top is the aerial socket.

The black DIN connection on the right is the CD changer and the brown wire is a phone mute.

It's very easy to replace the standard unit with a decent one and then put the original back after. Just use a DIN wiring adaptor.

 

Cheers for the advice guys, looks like a new head unit is on the cards then.