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T/L Dashboard Center Heating Vents
by ceecubed
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Oct 15, 2009 (3:17 am)
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08 T/L dashboard center heating vents have no air flow when the heat is on but the side vents do.
Is this normal?
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replace Car Stereo for 2001 TL
by jliu_2000
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Oct 18, 2009 (8:01 am)
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I am trying to by a new car stereo (with iPod, Bluetooth, USB) to replace the existing Acura stereo. however it seems Acura has proprietary control and "
If the factory radio is replaced, the factory sub will no longer work." - this is what the supplier of new car stereo says. unless I replace it with a new sub which is too much trouble.
any suggestion ? thanks
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Re: T/L Dashboard Center Heating Vents [ceecubed]
by mikey38
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Oct 18, 2009 (9:57 am)
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Replying to: ceecubed (Oct 15, 2009 3:17 am)
yes, I asked about this on my 06. With heat selected I expected all the airflow to be from the lower vents but on the TL you still get airflow from the upper side vents but not the center ones. This is even if you have foot vents selected vs auto. Not how I would have designed it but that is how it works.
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Re: replace Car Stereo for 2001 TL [jliu_2000]
by nemisis34
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Oct 18, 2009 (12:40 pm)
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Replying to: jliu_2000 (Oct 18, 2009 8:01 am)
It's unusual but the car stereo guy's right...more or less. The factory sub is powered by the factory external amp located behind the passenger side front kick panel. Unless you know about electronics and aren't experieced in it I would suggest not spending the time to attempt wiring anything into that factory amp. Nothing is marked on it and it's difficult to get schematics for it. In most Acura's I've heard, the rear panel the subwoofer is mounted in incapable of handling a lot of vibration....So removing that subwoofer is a viable option since replacing the head unit negates the presence of it anyway; UNLESS, you simply purchase small 100-watt amp and wire that into your new head unit. You can remove the factory amp in this instance as well. The subwoofer wires will be color coded which go to that factory amp. Peer at the wires connected to the factory subwoofer and write down the color codes, find the wires at the harness that went to the external amp and seperate them.. All of the speaker wire will be similar and will match in pairs. It's much simpler to rewire all of the speakers in the car if you are replacing them. If it's not a 5.1 surround system it may be a bi-amped system. All of the 5.1 surround systems use one external amp for all speakers. But if all speakers go to this one amp then you'll have to pig-tail speaker wires from the plug-in area where the factory amp was, to the new head unit. Most Acura audio systems sound better than even aftermarket head units, because of their external amp. Alpine makes an amplifier that has five channel output which would be the best sounding option to hang toward. No addition of an enclosed subwoofer is necessary by using this option, but even adding a small one such as a bazooka tube mounted away from the floor and close to the back seat on the underside of the horizontal sheet metal would add a tremendous amount of bass. The factory sub doesn't truly add a sufficient amount of lower end decibels that are equal to the decibels the other drivers can produce....This is the primary reason why most people who love music add subwoofers.
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Re: replace Car Stereo for 2001 TL [nemisis34]
by jliu_2000
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Oct 20, 2009 (8:13 pm)
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Replying to: nemisis34 (Oct 18, 2009 12:40 pm)
thanks for the detailed info. I temporarily will use a FM transmitter to listen from iPhone when driving. Acura doesn't have any new stereo available for 01 TL, and for the same 01 TL stereo that I am trying to replace but not able to, they are selling as part with listing price of $850.!!!
I guess it must be very difficult. otherwise the vendor (Clutchfield) will say they can make the new stereo to work with Acura installed sub.
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