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Old 12-26-16, 03:42 PM
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Default ML amplifier not where people say it should be

Two separate threads say that the amplifier for the ML nav system is in the trunk on the passenger side of my ES 350. Nope. Not there. I pulled every panel off and was looking at steel all the way around. No amp. I know what it should look like from pictures on Ebay. My car is a 2007. Where else would they have put it? I am trying to solve an intermittent short on the audio from the CD changer. I understand that it has a seperate feed to the amp but I can't find the amp to check the connection.

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Old 12-26-16, 03:54 PM
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This is the place where you should find it.

Old 12-26-16, 05:48 PM
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I think u can have nav without ML: sure you have the 14 speaker ML system?
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If you directly look at the empty panels it will look like theres nothing there. Its mounted on the backside with only the mounting hardware/tabs facing forward to where you'd see.
Its back there.
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Originally Posted by xanderES
If you directly look at the empty panels it will look like theres nothing there. Its mounted on the backside with only the mounting hardware/tabs facing forward to where you'd see.
Its back there.

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ML and Pioneer audio systems has the amplifier on the same place.
Old 12-29-16, 12:10 PM
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Thanks for the pictures. I found it. It was a loose connection I guess because I fiddled with it and the unit came back on. I even drove down some very bumpy dirt roads and it is still working.
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