Bose amplifier 2003 Suburban 5.3

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I have a question for you I have a 2003 suburban I recently purchased the guy before me put the pac rp5 gm11 interface in it. I still have all my chimes and steering wheel controls

well I have four 12s that I had in my Tahoe I put them in my suburban now and with two amps powering the 12s I have a problem when I crank the gain up on the amp barely even at all it shuts the whole thing down I believe it's because from what I understand that the bose amp turns it off. how do I go about fixing that. when I say I have like 5,000 Watts I have about maybe 400 watts coming out of my amps right now because if I turn it up at all it it makes it just go silent it turns it all off. It doesn't put my amps into protect mode it just like shuts down and my amps are still on the blue lights perfect but I get no sound..I'm trying to find the easiest route in the most effective route I don't really want to put it aftermarket amp in here to power all the door speakers because I just really rather not have to do that at the same time I want to have I want to have my Max output that I can have because that's what I built 10 cubic square foot box for was to maximize every bit airspace so I can put to the speakers. But I have an aftermarket head unit it's an aftermarket Kenwood double DIN head unit and I have my RCA's coming off of the rear subwoofer output going to my subwoofer amps I've read a couple different things on how to bypass it but I don't want to bypass it and not have the door speakers have any power to them I don't know how that would work so I just need to know what I need to do and what I should do and if I have to put it aftermarket amp in here I mean I guess I have to do what I have to do
 

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I have a question for you I have a 2003 suburban I recently purchased the guy before me put the pac rp5 gm11 interface in it. I still have all my chimes and steering wheel controls

well I have four 12s that I had in my Tahoe I put them in my suburban now and with two amps powering the 12s I have a problem when I crank the gain up on the amp barely even at all it shuts the whole thing down I believe it's because from what I understand that the bose amp turns it off. how do I go about fixing that. when I say I have like 5,000 Watts I have about maybe 400 watts coming out of my amps right now because if I turn it up at all it it makes it just go silent it turns it all off. It doesn't put my amps into protect mode it just like shuts down and my amps are still on the blue lights perfect but I get no sound..I'm trying to find the easiest route in the most effective route I don't really want to put it aftermarket amp in here to power all the door speakers because I just really rather not have to do that at the same time I want to have I want to have my Max output that I can have because that's what I built 10 cubic square foot box for was to maximize every bit airspace so I can put to the speakers. But I have an aftermarket head unit it's an aftermarket Kenwood double DIN head unit and I have my RCA's coming off of the rear subwoofer output going to my subwoofer amps I've read a couple different things on how to bypass it but I don't want to bypass it and not have the door speakers have any power to them I don't know how that would work so I just need to know what I need to do and what I should do and if I have to put it aftermarket amp in here I mean I guess I have to do what I have to do
So, questions, what troubleshooting have you done?
and please clarify what is connected to the factory amp? just the door speakers? hi or low input? and the sub's are running off of the kenwood pre-outs?
have you checked that the subs are wired correctly? what ohms are they reading?
 
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So, questions, what troubleshooting have you done?
and please clarify what is connected to the factory amp? just the door speakers? hi or low input? and the sub's are running off of the kenwood pre-outs?
have you checked that the subs are wired correctly? what ohms are they reading?
My subs are wired down to 2ohms my amps are 1 ohm stable monoblock for but they are stacked as one is a master one is a slave so then it is the wrong of the speakers and amps are done correctly never had a problem whatsoever in my Tahoe till I involved the Bose amplifier.. so I can play my music perfectly fine but if I turn the gain up at all the sounds cuts out.. this is what Google told me when I search it
 

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To bypass the Bose amp I would think I would just need to find the input and output wires to the speakers and connect them together but I don't how that works if the amp will still be able to cuz them all off if I left my front tweeters hooked up to the amp could I make a loop hole to keep my chimes and stuff without having Bose control my sound output.. just ideas I just thought about
 

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To bypass the Bose amp I would think I would just need to find the input and output wires to the speakers and connect them together but I don't how that works if the amp will still be able to cuz them all off if I left my front tweeters hooked up to the amp could I make a loop hole to keep my chimes and stuff without having Bose control my sound output.. just ideas I just thought about
The tweeters are connected to the front speakers and just have a tiny filter on them, no separate output from the bose amp, how much gain are you trying to give the bose factory amp? Most headunits are 4v.
That being said you should be able to easily bypass the bose amp and feed your door speakers from the headunit hi output which should be like 50w a channel usually. a lot more than the bose puts out.
 

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