Recent content by old_dude

Oh, I'm so sorry that all of you are such freakin critics. You just don't understand anything I said because obviously you had some installer do your **** and not yourself. NO, I did NOT say "just tweeters in the rear"! There is NOTHING wrong with 5-way 6x9's! Some of you probably have them...

Have you considered running it directly to your battery? I'm can't say your problem woud be solved for sure, but we always have a lot less "issues" if we run our deck's power wire directly off the battery. I'm thinking something is shorting out somewhere. It seems like you've tried everything...

I have an extra pair of tweeters with built-in inline crossovers I recently bought and was going to use. They have nice frequency response for their size and cost, and even get higher highs than the more expensive ones I bought to replace them! But since I got "better" ones for the front, with...

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I also have the Kenwood KDC-X492 and love it! I'm so addicted to using the USB input for my flash drive that I've never even played a disc in it! Well, I did put one in when I first installed the deck just to be sure it worked. But only use the USB an radio once in awhile. Although I did...

Oh, sorry. You're probably right. I'm not knowledgeable on Camry's, only the Alpine deck. I was just going by the pic he posted, which shows the slits on the side. But then if the straps were correctly used, my theory wouldn't work anyway! I apologize if I sounded totally stupid, but was...

As for any advice or opinions I may give, 90% of it comes from past experience, being around car audio folks, learning tricks from sound-offs, reading car audio magazines for the last 20 years, and books like the MECP Study Guide and IASCA Competition Manaul. But almost none of the advice or...

Pardon me for sounding like an idiot (again), but this thread was so long that I forgot... do you have your deck power wire hooked up into your wiring harness under the dash, or going directly to the battery? If into a hot wire under the dash, I'm guessing the problem could possibly be remedied...

Don't quote me any time soon, and this may sound ghetto, but I had to remove an Alpine deck from a car I bought but I didn't have the little things you shove in to unlock the tabs. So, what I did, and it worked, was to find TWO of those real small flat head screwdrivers. Not like glasses screw...

I used Sonic many times in the past couple months. In fact I spent over $1500 in just December alone with those folks. Great prices. Excellent customer service. Only "issue" I had was that when they are out of stock on an item, they won't tell you. You just wait and wait and wait...

http://www.the12volt.com Not sure where they get all their info, but I've gotten tons of info from this site! Complete lists of vehicle-specific wiring diagrams, info about relays, and a bunch of other stuff. Great site in my opinion, and is at the top of my favorites list!

I, too, have heard good things about that place! I've never been there, but have talked to other people who have, and haven't heard anything bad so far. No war stories like you hear about the "other guys".

YES! Car Toys *****! Not only their overly high-pressure sales people who are quite often rude, but their installers **** too. I say this ONLY from what friends have told me. Since I don't like the pushy sales people who ALWAYS steer you away from what you were looking at and try to sell you...

WELL, I DID IT! I took the advice of most of you in this forum (and I've ONLY read the threads in the Wiring, Electrical and Installation Help threads since I joined!)... I just bought an AutoMeter digital VOLTMETER to match my Ammeter (amp current) gauge!! So many of you convinced me (while...

Thanks, SPL! Good advice, man. Let me keep going... Okay, my main power will start with a single 100 amp inline fuse. Coo dat! So what you suggest, and is important for me to know, is you're saying I should run whatever amperage rating my devices (3 amps and a crossover) come with in each...