The wiring and electronics for rear electric windows and Bose extend well beyond the doors. Both of these optional extras are towards the more involved/complicated end of the retrofitting spectrum.Can I swap all four doors complete with Bose and electric windows without too much bother.
In the nicest possible sense, and without wishing to rain on your parade again, it's so much more complicated than this. If Bose and rear electric windows could be retrofitted by simply plugging in an amp and swapping the doors, everyone would have done it.can I swap the front doors with working windows and fit the back doors and leave the windows disconnected, change the
Bose amp and will the central locking still work ?
Proghound is absolutely correct. Once a rear electric window retrofit has been started, it must be completed before the car is able to be locked/unlocked again. The windows and the central locking are often thought of as two different systems, but they're not. Instead, they're two tightly integrated systems that rely upon the same digital data channels. If you swap the rear doors and connect them, you'll blow a load of fuses. If you swap the rear doors and leave them disconnected, neither the windows nor the central locking will work. The process of getting the A2's main brains to know that its digital data system is now in control of 4 electric windows rather than just two, and to install/remove wiring looms as appropriate, is not for the faint-hearted.Regarding the rear windows, Tom @timmus has told me several times that once you start an electric window upgrade you have to complete it before you can lock the car again.
Unless you've got great familiarity with the A2's electrics, you'd be entering a world of pain.Thanks again for all your input to this thread and for stoping me before I started down a very tricky road.
Of course, I'm happy to do the transfer of the optional extras if that's what you'd like.Seemed like a good idea at the time, but clearly its a huge task.
If you are like me;
1) electric windows just break eventually; and why the need to have them rear doors as well? The A2 is so small that you reach both handles from front driving seat anyway
2) install a small powered subwoofer. Together with the standard door speakers you can come a looong way; they are quite good! In particular if you also install a new headunit with configurable crossovers
Potential Bose killer - easy install
Just spend 3 hours to install Phoenix Gold Z8150. This is a 5cm tall shoebox with active 8-inch subwoofer. I placed it below the driver seat, and pulled cables below the carpets from boot (power) and headunit (signal and remote). Everything is basically hidden. The headunit Pioneer X7800 was...www.a2oc.net
A bit late to the party but this is what I did, I have a Kenwood underseat subwoofer under the drivers seat.
All the wiring is just in front (the rear speaker amp is located under the hatch in front of the drivers seat) so you can pick up the power and speaker feeds from there. I've had no issues at all with taking the supply from the amp and has been working for probably 200 hours since fitting. I had it with the original chorus 2 initially and the sound was really good. I did replace the head unit with a bluetooth Sony that has sub out and to be fair the sound isnt that much different. Good thing with underseat subs are they can be removed for the next car easily and most like mine have phase and level adjustment for when youre listening to your favourite track and you want the mirrors to shake ....