harmon kardon amplifier fix

jimsnapon · Feb 10, 2013

hi all , does anyone know of anyone that repairs the harmon kardon amps ?
fitted to the p38 vogue range rovers as have three with no output
and they are hard to get a hold of second hand

regards jim

scotchgit · Feb 10, 2013

Could try clarion they advertise a repair service on eBay they did my head unit presume they do the rest

2.0_hippo · Feb 10, 2013

Rip it all out and fit aftermarket lol

sas1810 · Feb 10, 2013

nobody repairs them now. main stealer or the bay of E. good luck

rewmer · Feb 11, 2013

No sir. It's the amplifier chips. They are impossible to extract from the board without damage and even if you could there are no identifying marks on them to allow our hashing replacements.

rasheed · Feb 11, 2013

sas1810 said:
nobody repairs them now. main stealer or the bay of E. good luck

If you don't have controls on the steering wheel (or can live without them) its a good excuse to get a modern integrated head unit with dedicated subwoofer output. Means you can upgrade with bluetooth, DAB, MP3 controls etc. Then just bypass all the old amps. You can probably still use the speakers.

Datatek · Feb 11, 2013

rasheed said:
If you don't have controls on the steering wheel (or can live without them) its a good excuse to get a modern integrated head unit with dedicated subwoofer output. Means you can upgrade with bluetooth, DAB, MP3 controls etc. Then just bypass all the old amps. You can probably still use the speakers.

There are head units that claim compatibility with wheel buttons on all makes

rasheed · Feb 13, 2013

Datatek said:
There are head units that claim compatibility with wheel buttons on all makes

Are there? Any that have actually been tried on a P38? I'd be interested, I always thought you had to use the work-around and do lots of chopping and splicing.

Datatek · Feb 13, 2013

rasheed said:
Are there? Any that have actually been tried on a P38? I'd be interested, I always thought you had to use the work-around and do lots of chopping and splicing.

Just seen them advertised here in France, can't see why they wouldn't work, may have to chop the loom.

stjohnsmythe · Feb 13, 2013

rasheed said:
If you don't have controls on the steering wheel (or can live without them) its a good excuse to get a modern integrated head unit with dedicated subwoofer output. Means you can upgrade with bluetooth, DAB, MP3 controls etc. Then just bypass all the old amps. You can probably still use the speakers.

This.

I've recently fitted a single DIN Blaupunkt stereo/sat nav unit.

basky · Feb 14, 2013

You still after these? We have the set somewhere

aston108 · Apr 15, 2013

can anyone tell me how to bypass the amp please ?

sas1810 · Apr 15, 2013

aston108 said:
can anyone tell me how to bypass the amp please ?

How old is the car?

gazzab79 · Apr 28, 2013

Those amps are crap! Ended up using a disco one on my vogue but could only use radio and not cd changer which i was able to live with

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