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Hey everyone, I have a ‘19 Classic and my truck came with the 8.4” faceplate with the standard 6 speaker stereo (non alpine). I just bought the factory subwoofer (mounts under back seat), plugged it in and it’s not working. My question is, will an alphaobd work with my year truck, and it’s there a setting to unlock and sync the sub to my current sent up. The sub came with the alpine options but I feel like it should still work because the truck was wired for the sub from the factory. Any help would be great! -Andrew
 

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Hey everyone, I have a ‘19 Classic and my truck came with the 8.4” faceplate with the standard 6 speaker stereo (non alpine). I just bought the factory subwoofer (mounts under back seat), plugged it in and it’s not working. My question is, will an alphaobd work with my year truck, and it’s there a setting to unlock and sync the sub to my current sent up. The sub came with the alpine options but I feel like it should still work because the truck was wired for the sub from the factory. Any help would be great! -Andrew
You'll need the factory amplifier as well, might need to change some wiring around as well. AlfaOBD can change the settings of the truck to read the amplifier.

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I would use an aftermarket amplifier for it. It's not plug and play if your truck didn't have the Alpine system.

I would also replace the OEM sub itself with something else.

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Yeah, not that simple. You would need to add the factory amp, re wire everything etc. Much better off going with an aftermarket amp.
 

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So I could get an a/m amp, that’ll work with my oem radio & the oem sub?

Yes, You'll need one that accepts line level inputs and of course splice it all in (or get a harness to break out the lines), nothing is going to be plug and play if that is what you are looking for

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