Now i'm not too concerned with the heated seats, but thought that might narrow the issue down. 2003 Legacy wagon the radio turns on and seems to function in every way - change channels, etc, but there's no sound.

gg,

 

I just had the same issue on a 99 Forester - and it was the radio.

 

By that I mean Skip stopped in to help and put a legacy radio that I had in and it worked fine. I believe he even retried the Forester radio.

 

As the saying goes 'the lights were on but nobody was home'.

 

Heated seats - on the same car someone had taken the console up and left the seats unplugged. I was really looking for the shifter bulb (that was burnt out) when I discovered the heated seats wer eunplugged.

 

Dave

i couldnt figure out why my Brat heated seats stopped working. Well, I guess at some pint i unplugged the connector under the seat. When i plugged back in, toasty seats in 5 minutes, makes for a warm drive in to work.

heated seats in a Brat???

 

That's a hot one!!!

 

 

Gary, the radio in Dave's Forester had only one plug,

some have two.

I have seen other systems where this type radio

was interfaced with a factory subwoofer located under the pass seat.

If the sub is unpowered the radio will not output to any speakers.

 

As Dave mentioned, you might look under the console to check for disconnected plugs.

Thanks skip and dave,

 

This does have the surround sound and subwoofer package in it, so i'll check there too. Subwoofer is under the seat you say? I'm an audio goober but I guess that's a big box and should be easily visible?

 

Guess I'm leaning towards the heated seats and radio issue to be not related. Fuses appeared fine.

Gary, I am not sure where the sub would be in a 2003 Legacy

My 2003 has the McIntosh system which is different.

 

The sub I was refering to was an earlier Impreza.

 

 

 

BTW

I need to see this Brat with "factory" heated seats.

.

 

 

 

BTW

I need to see this Brat with "factory" heated seats.

 

retro fitted the 2004 outback limited leather heated power side airbag seats.

heat works

power adjust works

airbags, who needs them i left the wires there lol

My 2003 has the McIntosh system which is different.

mine is a McIntosh system as well, or that's what the radio has on it anyway.

sub woofer should be under drivers seat on your car. You can see it by putting that seat all the way forward and looking on the rear passenger floor.

Weve seen this a few times...prob. unlikely in your case because you have the Sub. package...but weve had more than a handful of these come in and all 4 of the speakers are blown...if its possible and you have a good speaker lying around it might be worth it to just take one of the door panels off and test a single speaker.....a long shot i guess...but it happens...

Not familiar with the McIntosh system but do know the amp has to be powered for there to be sound. Could unplug it and look for 12 volts and there should be an inline fuse somewhere for the amp.

Now that you mention your's also has

the McIntosh system

 

Do you also have the antique "Blonde Star" system?

 

The two are tied together so you can use voice controls

and a hands free phone system.

The On-Star can mute the radio for calls ect.

If it has been removed/disabled it may also disable the speaker output

due to this interface.

 

The power amp is, as we said, located under the pass seat

and is easy to ID.

Large cooling fins across it's top.

Sorry I do not have the wiring diagram for this radio system.

Do you also have the antique "Blonde Star" system?

 

The two are tied together so you can use voice controls

and a hands free phone system.

The On-Star can mute the radio for calls ect.

If it has been removed/disabled it may also disable the speaker output

due to this interface.

 

oh wow, how would I know if it had/has this system? i don't know anything about it. nothing in the glove box so i have no idea if it had it.

 

thanks skip, i would have never figured out to consider that!

"oh wow, how would I know if it had/has this system?"

 

Two ways

 

1) The presence of a small stub antenna in the roof near the rear.

 

2) On the center console below the radio ther would be a panel as

shown. The blue button is the On Star button.

probably not this simple, but i bought a 97 outback with no sound... someone had ripped out the whatever from under the passenger seat. i pulled the radio and dis connected the radio harness from the plug going to the missing equipment and plugged it back into the factory speaker wiring harness, works great.

 

after thought, if they did rip out from under the drivers seat, they may have disconnected the heater connection there.

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i'm out of town, but checked an interior pic i haev and there's button, i just have a storage compartment next to the VDC switch.

 

what are those other two buttons adjacent to it - are they blonde (ha ha i like that) star related too?

 

thanks for all the notes, i'll be getting into this as soon as i get back from the holidays.