I got an Appradio 2 running today with the stock Bose speakers. After reading what turned out to be a bunch of misinformation about the impedance of the Bose drivers being 1 ohm and such I said f***all and measured them myself. There is a 6.5 woofer and a 1-3/4 tweeter in the front door. And at the rear of the front door are the roughly 5.25 "rears" that play behind the front seat. Turns out the tweet is 4 ohms with a cap on it, and each of the woofers is 2 ohms. So I did the obvious thing and wired the woofs in series and the tweeter in parallel with that composite woofer. Damned if it didn't turn out rather nice.
The Appradio is very slick, with it's own AM/FM and access to Pandora via your phone, which cables to the radio. Also does handsfree, Nav through the iphone with a choice of a couple of different apps, interfaces with the steering wheel controls via an Axxess ASWC-1 adapter, and I just ordered a wifi OBDII reader that works with an app called Dashcommand to display OBD data and also uses the accelerometer and inclinometer functions of the phone. There re something like 30 apps although several are redundant as near as I can tell.
It took an entire day to sort out all of the issues including the fact that the stupid Bose stereo was fiber optic connections all the way from the CD changer and head unit to the amp in the back. Once I found a way to tap into the speaker cabling and figured out that the cigar lighter wire I tapped was on a circuit with an open fuse (duoh!), it was just a matter of contortion until it was all back together.
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