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Hey all,

I'm going to be replacing the head unit in my v soon for obvious reasons. I was wondering if it is worth replacing the speakers at the same time?

I'm just wondering how difficult is it to remove the head unit once an aftermarket one is installed. I will be getting a pro to do the hu initially but if I want more after is it easy or a royal pain?

I don't really know how good the stock system is because of the appalling standard hu.

Any thoughts, comments, suggestions?

While I'm on it, got any suggestions for a good hear unit somewhere around d $500 mark?

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I'm running an aftermarket head unit with the stock bose system, and I'm happy with it.

Every other car I've owned had my focal 6.5 inch splits and a big amp installed, with copious amounts of dynamat, (I have to admit it sounded particularly good in my AE111 Levin considering the interior of the car was tiny)

The V35 is probably not as good, but its close enough that I'm not replacing the stock speakers until they die.

If you don't have the bose system, I'd probably replace it all

Agree the bose speakers are not the best thing you will ever hear but defiantly better than cheap pioneer kenwood ect so upgrade to really good speakers, if there is somthing wrong or your really really picky! my advise would be to still add an amp and sub to the boot, that combo sounds great with the stock speakers

Appreciate the info guys. Is it hard to add more cabling to the headunit after its been installed though? The guy who's doing it was going on about having to wire in the climate control and such, I don't want to have to go through that everytime, or do I have no choice?

if you buy an aftermarket double din, the wiring goes to that not the head unit. so the hard part is already done. i had my head unit out to plug a new aux cable into the back the other day. it took me less than an hour. so shouldn't matter when your putting speakers in. but if you where to do it properly id just run a spare rca to the boot now so you can plug amps in later. as for good aftermarket speakers you need a good amp!

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