If you purchase a car with Bose built in, are you stuck with it?
 

I was looking into a Touring and wondered if it would be reasonable to replace the Bose for something better. With such a small car, is the Bose sufficient and not worth replacing?

i swaped it out, as most guys seem to be doing on here.

Yes and no IF you want to add a head unit that is ok.

If you want new speakers you will HAVE to take the head unit out the stock amp out and run new speaker wires. Or you can keep the stock units and add a re-q and than add a new amp and run new wires to new speakers.

If you have a bose with nave the same as above however you will need a entire new dash and dash kit.

you can easily change the head and use a 5 channel amp and speakers under $1500

If you want more bass you can add amp and sub for about $499-$999

If you are sick of the stock unit which you will be sooner or later I would say swap the head, unless you have the built in nav with the bose.

Is a RF 3 Sixty or a RE-Q the only option for adding a subwoofer and amp to replace the factory bose sub, onto my bose system with Navi? I like the head unit, looks super clean and I don't mind the functionality, even the speakers are OK - for bose, but I just want more bass.

If there is a simpler way that would be sweet, but i'm imagining that the signal coming to the factory bose sub (amp?) is anything but clean and full range.

Thanks!

You need one of those devices added on to the bose system to install a new amp to power your new sub. You can not just run a new sub off your bose amp.

An Audio Control LC2i will also work very nice.