I just purchased a mp3 deck (JVC KD-S890) to replace my stock cd/radio/cassette head unit. One guy at the installation store said he needs to do the amplifier by-pass when installing the unit and it'll cost $50(us) to do so. However, another guy at a different store said all he has to do is disconnect it in the wire hardness and it would not cost any extra to do so.
Can anybody confirm this? Does he really need to by-pass the amplifier?
thanks Brian
If your car is not an SE version, it probably won't have an external amplifier. (Generally the single CD radios don't use an external amp, the 3 CD version must use one.) However, disconnecting the speaker wires at the amp is no harder than disconnecting them at the radio, I don't see why there'd be an extra charge.
Well Mike, you live in Ontario and I am sure you know what Futureshop people are like. Anyway, I found a very useful message that you post a while back on this board, you said SC-816 has an internal amplifier and that leads me to believe that a amplifier bypass is not needed.
regards Brian
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