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    Touring vs sedan amplifiers

    Is there a difference between stock amplifiers (non-DSP) on the sedan and touring e39s? The part numbers look different on realOEM, but sedan amps are much easier to find so if it would work that’d be nice...

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    From my understanding, they're both the same. Other members will likely chime in with their expertise.
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    Yeah AFAIK also. There are E38's that aren't pin compatible, I forget the details but something maybe about earlier versions, at any rate if you put one of those in an E39 it will smoke the amp channels becuase the wiring is significantly (shockingly) different. Who'd have thought BMW would alter pin-outs in a way that a swap would completely smoke stuff!?

    But no, the WDS says that everything is the same except for the subwoof. Its unclear whats different there - maybe the Touring sub only gets 2 pairs of wires instead of 4... That's how I seem to remember it but I'd have to dig my old parts out to confirm. If that is true then in a worst case the Tour might not power the sub correctly in a Sedan but reverse would be fine - however I extremely doubt they bothered to delete 2 channels of output for such an insignificant cost savings as 2 crappy little amp chips.
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    Yeah thats kinda what I figured but thanks for confirming. I'll try it out and post back with the results.

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    Sedan amplifier works fine in the touring.

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