Should I go back to stock?

[Last American Indian]

Hearing loss is obviously not great! And your condition of Meniere’s is unfortunate indeed. I’m sure you’ve looked at things to help. Are you aware the alpha lipoid acid supplements will help help to protect the hearing in the case of Meniere’s? I wish you the best with this. 

[bluecalais79]

Factory all the way for me. But I did upgrade to CD from cassette, a factory correct unit, in my 94 CS

[GnatGoSplat]

Finally committed (a year later) to go back to stock.

Debating whether I should remove the 4ga amp wire while I'm in there.  It runs through the factory grommet and inside the door sill trim with the rest of the factory wiring.  Underhood, there's just a red wire neatly wire-tied to the cruise control cable and disappearing into the firewall.  The end underhood is a ring terminal tucked away, so you can't see where the end actually terminates. There is no longer a fuse or length of wire going to the battery terminal or positive jump start terminal.  Personally, my amps & subs days are long over.  I'm not sure if anyone who would buy a vintage W-body would still be into amps & subs.  I'm already pulling trim to remove the 20yr old DVD navigation I've got in it, so it's not a ton of extra hassle.  2 of 2 AIs are telling me this:

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Right now, that loose 4-ga amp wire sends a subtle signal: this car has been messed with electrically.

Bottom line, both say to pull it.

Agree?  Disagree?  I know if someone did want amps & subs, leaving it would save them a whole lot of trouble.

[bluecalais79]

Agree. As I always say, your car, your call. Do it for what you want rather than what the next owner may (or may not) want. I myself am after the total factory look, but if I can hide something that will otherwise give it the factory look, that's good news. I've replaced my Retrosound rear speakers with another aftermarket brand set that fits into the hole and under the grille sufficiently. They get hit by the sun with that huge rear window so I avoided a paper coned speaker with something more durable. I'm loathing replacing the door panel speakers, but as soon as II find that set of correct NOS ones I've got in storage somewhere, I've got a job to do............

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[Black92GS]

If it were me I'd pull it... but I also wouldn't worry too much about seeing it neatly tied up and disconnected at both ends if I were a buyer. It was the style at the time to run aftermarket stereos in nearly everything, so I consider it to be remanent of a former, period correct modification.    

[GnatGoSplat]

I was thinking along the lines of anyone being interested in this car is likely to be a millenial or X'er that isn't going to be as into subs & amps as someone in their 20s.

As far as doing it for me, I'm in "do what makes it most appealing to sell" mode.  if I were intending to keep the car, I'd leave all my mods intact as I really liked them.  However, I'm out of space and had to pass up a semi-unicorn car I really wanted that was priced very aggressively because of it.

 

[Black92GS]

1 hour ago, GnatGoSplat said:

I was thinking along the lines of anyone being interested in this car is likely to be a millenial or X'er that isn't going to be as into subs & amps as someone in their 20s.

That's how I'm looking at it.  I wouldn't have not bought the Regal, or insisted on paying any less for it if there was a disconnected and neatly stored amp wire running back to the trunk, everything else being equal.  My thought is that the target buyer for that car is the type of person to be a member here, and is likely to be relatively well versed in them to where something like that wouldn't make a difference in either case. 

It's not a super low mileage museum piece where I feel something like that would make a difference.  If anything, that car being "The Car" of these forums makes it more desirable, but that's just me.