Spilled...fluid on battery in trunk, speakers broken

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crosboe

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Hey everyone, first post on these forums though I've been lurking awhile.

So had a bottle of cleaning fluid in my trunk...it of course spilled and got on the battery. Before I knew this, I turned on the z4, everything worked fine but the speakers popped and then played a little music and died.

I didn't know if I just blew the amp..or a fuse..or what? I'm not sure where either are located as is. I'm not veryyy car savvy but can figure it out if anyone has an idea on how to check it out. I'm kind of struggling moneywise and would love to try a quick fix myself before taking it into a shop. I havn't had sound in a couple months now since this happened, and it's slowly driving me crazy for the summer. The station and song are still displayed on the radio, so everything seems to be working fine. I have a 2004 soft top BMW Z4.

Thanks guys!
 
Welcome to the forum.

If you have hi-fi 10 speaker system, the amp is in the boot, next to the battery, and has likely been damaged by the spillage. Sounds like you might need a new one. You might be able to source one from a salvage yard or car breakers.
 
Sounds like you have given your amp a fatal bath (like I have). Not good news. It's located next to the battery under the removable boot floor.

Options are:

Try and get it fixed (doubtfull)

Get a new one for around £380 (expensive!)

Find one second hand (rare)

Do what I have done and bypass the amp (ball ache)

As you have stated your not car savvy, I think you will have to get a new amp or go to an audio installer to sort it out but either way will not be cheap :thumbsdown:
 
If audio volume isn't that important, it should be possible to wire the head unit as the basic 6 speaker system without an external amp. The HU doesn't have enough power to run all the speakers, but enough to run some of the speakers at acceptable volume. This would certainly be the cheapest option. Mostly time spent with WDS figuring out the easiest way to adapt the wiring. It will be important to determine if your system has DSP or not. DSP (digital signal processing) will complicate things.
 
I had a similar problem, my amp had been destroyed by some sort of leakage. I took it to a mechanic who was an expert on car stereos and he believed he could fix my amp. He wanted to do that in his own time, so he sold me a Land Rover Freelander amp, which was almost a perfect match and works as it should.

It was also relatively cheap, compared to the Z4 amp.
 
Mau said:
Steiner said:
Land Rover Freelander amp
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Interesting! No further modifications needed then?
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Interesting yes, but not too surprising. 1st Gen Freelanders were introduced when Rover was owned by BMW in the late 90's.
 
There were some very minor modifications that even I could do. I had to change the fitting bracket, which took about a minute.

I wouldn't have bought it unless I got to try it out first. I plugged out my old one, plugged in the Land Rover amp and turned on the stereo and it worked perfectly!
 
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