Is the wiring harness the same for the Bose and Non-Bose systems?

I am considering swapping my Non-Bose head unit for Bose head unit with line out to 4 channel amp.

Just wondering if I could plug my Non-Bose wiring harness into the back of the Bose Unit.

 

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Wiring Harness is NOT the same....
Base HU has Line out to speakers. BOSE HU has differential output to amp.
However, you may be able to use the non-Bose harness to POWER the BOSE HU. Then get cable adapter such as cablelink to plug into HU, to feed aftermarket amp/speakers. You'll need a diff converter such as PD4 to interface to the BOSE HU, not Line Output converters.

 

dang it, I had a link to a how to on this...

Im no help but ^^his suggestion sounded like money

 

I am wanting to swap out the bose head for the non-bose head, plug in the stock wiring harness, and then power all the speakers off of a separate amp.

What I am wondering is, can I easily plug in by non-bose adapter into the bose headunit, and then splice into the stock speaker wires for the amp connection?

 

As mentioned above, the wiring harnesses are not the same. The BASE HU goes directly from the HU to the speakers, while the BOSE HU harness goes from the HU to the amps, then from the amps to the speakers. And I doubt you'll be placing your new amps in the factory locations, so the factory wiring harnesses are 'almost' useless. I spliced into the factory harness only for the door speakers..

 

Why would you go from bose to base? or base to bose for that matter? LOL
Just go aftermarket if you're gonna take the time to replace your HU at all.