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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tmwsccsh" data-source="post: 1451557" data-attributes="member: 23397">Hi all,So some good news - and some bad.Good news - plugged the radio that's arrived in to the existing wiring in the car and it came to life!  I have also been able to deconstruct the wiring loom I received and extract all the bits for that too.  This is going well - I only need to splice 4x wires in to what I have and all should work.But there's a problem.  It appears that I do indeed need a working amp of some kind as there is no drive from the new radio.  If I crank the volume to full I can just hear it, so the factory amp (non-mach) appears to be iffy (it's the one behind the head unit at the bottom, just visible in one of the original photos I put up).You can see what looks like water damage to it.  I would like to get it out and a friend of mine who is an electrical tech is going to give it a going over but I can't obviously see how it comes out.I assume I need to get the centre console out (where the centre vents etc. are and what the radio sits in) which is easy enough, but how is the amp held in and does it then come out?Thanks in advance.RegardsTMW</blockquote>