Factory Bose Issues

i pulled my head unit out yesterday to do some wire splicing when i was installing my subs and amp, to find out someone had hacked up the wiring... now i have the wiring fixed after jackin with it for a couple hours.. my problem now is that my changer has 6 cd's in it, now it only shows to have 3 cd's in it and the cd on the screen is flashing.. if you hit CD/Aux button on the changer it comes up INITIALIZING and you can here it trying to shuffle cd's, but then stops and screen still says INITIALIZING.. the XM and regular tuner work fine, but cd's will not load.. Is there something i can do to reset this thing and make it work, or should i pull it out and take a hammer to it??

Almst sounds like you may not have kept it level when hooking power to it after being disconnected. I kinda remember cd removal being a bitch in these radios but I didn't try on many. You should have used the subwoofer wires for your LOC, that way the signal to the amp would be lowpass filtered already.

i think i am gonna take the bose headunit out, and order a nice screen to put in it.. then i will have 2 screens in my truck that i dont use lol.. what all will i need to make an aftermarket headunit work with my bose system??

You will need an interface module. Peripheral makes one that retains both bose and onstar, just bose, bypass bose but keep dinger and RAP, or you can lose the dinger and RAP by wiring the turn on to the ACC post in the junction block(cheapest route).

Alrite, thanks for the help.. I'm gonna cut the wire to the stupid dinger but i still want all my other stuff to work if I git a new headunit..

I think the peripheral piece uses the door speakers like the original unit for the chimes. I know the gmrc-01 uses a speaker, and the PAC piece uses an external that is sold seperately. Bypassing Bose is easy, there is a normal harness that connects to the Bose harness that is clipped on the backside of the subdash, directly behind the a/c controls. You disconnect it and connect your aftermarket harness. Just in case you want to bypass the Bose when you put a sub in ( I would prefer bypassing the Bose if it were mine).