Recent content by Zavenoa

I've confirmed that it's just too much drain. I did the big 3 upgrade, and that seriously helped. Now my battery will last a week or two, at least, before draining down to 20%, although I think it's taking a beating by getting drained down that low and then charged back up, it won't seem to go...

2 questions: 1: The 1/0g wiring I used between alt and batt+ says max load is 375A @ 20', I used 6' between alt and batt with an in line fuse holding 3 100a mini-anl fuses. I think I want to increase these to 120A fuses for a total of 360A, right? 2: Any harm in running an extra 4g wire from...

Thanks for info, big 3 upgrade successful. Now to see if this does the trick or if I need to go drop another $600 on HO Alt and new batt...

So I charged it up to around 85% earlier, then went on a half hour drive on the highway, pushing the system, just plugged it in and my batts at 24%. God I hope the big 3 at least reduces this drain. I tried doing it the other day, but that POS jack that comes with the car scares the crap outa...

It was the power. FAR too much draw for the crappy stock batt and 100amp alt. Need to upgrade to 180amp alt and better batt. I found out what the issue was though and why it was intermittent. After countless hours messing with the ground, I went out and bought a ac/dc converter that...

So the little strips on every contact point worked perfectly, and going nuts on the rear deck was probably the biggest help, but the guy that sold it to me was right, you only need a little bit of it on the contact points, although more certainly won't hurt. I plan on continuing until...

Yep I've ditched all the terminals. My ground points are all good, I used a wire brush attachment on a dremel and then polished it smooth with some of the other attachments, additionally, I've tried grounding my 4 channel amp in the other spots and I grounded my distrobution block (needs a...

Wrong again, AudioPipe amp is fine, nothing wrong with it. My brand new Pioneer amp did it to me today, I pulled over, looked at it, turned on the ACC it cycled fine, turned the car on, it tried to power up and then shut down. I shut the car off, closed the trunk, started the car back up and...

I finished this and did all of the trim pieces like the pictures above, putting deadener anywhere there might possibly be contact points. The only piece I did more to was the rear deck. For that I started by ripping off the padding seen on the underside in my first post and then completely...

Here it is finished, this actually wasn't too difficult, but if anyone knows a more effective way let me know. Just in case it wasn't clear in my first post, I'm not trying to reduce exterior noise, I'm trying to reduce interior rattle. Finished Reverse: Visible Side:

First, thanks to everyone who has been helpful thus far, your tips and suggestions have been appreciated. The car I'm working on is a Toyota Corolla 2010 S, If it matters my system is as follows: Head Unit: Pioneer AVH-X8500BHS Front Speakers: Polk Audio DB6501 Rear Speakers: Polk Audio...

So I'm pretty sure it was the amp, I'm not gonna blame AudioPipe seeing as I cross wired the ground and power TWICE and easily could have damaged it, but I certainly didn't replace it with another AudioPipe amp either. I went with the Pioneer GM-D9601 which seems to be working great. I took...

The power and remote wires are only close to the RCAs and Speaker wires under the seat. The RCAs and speaker wires are run along the sides of the car (Sub RCA on driver side, speaker RCA on Passenger) and the power and remote wires are run under the carpet through the center console...

I didn't like the AVH-X4500BT so I returned it and bought the AVH-X8500BHS, which is what I should have done in the first place (always ends up this way when I try to save a buck and go with the cheaper model). I realized after doing the math that for $110 I could get a FAR better model, glad I...

Yea, it's starting to sound like it's going into protect mode, to be honest, you're probably right about it being tuned wrong. I'm still figuring a lot of this out, it's been a looooong time since I've done anything serious with my stereo and I never had the cash to buy anything close to what...