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Old 06-23-2021, 06:38 PM
Effduration Effduration is offline
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Hi there.. in my ‘06 E53 3.0 my son complained of no sound from any speakers.

I told him he was playing the music too loud..

I have had an Xtrons android unit installed for 18 months or so. Other than no sound, it seemed to be functioning fine..

I checked fuses front and back. Swapped audio relays. no difference.
Then I pulled the connector to the amp and found a bunch of corrosion and evidence of several burnt pins on the amp side of connector.

The amp was original. Alpine - made in China in ‘05.

I got lucky and found a new unused, old stock OEM amp from 2010 on eBay.
Plugged it in and am back in business.

It looks to me like Alpine switched production from Mexico to China in ‘02 or so..Don’t know if the early Mexico units are better.

I can’t complain too much, it lasted 15 yrs..

Last edited by Effduration; 06-24-2021 at 11:16 PM.
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