Bored A'F

[Dtrom 10+ year member]

How big of a "noob" were YOU when you first starting getting into car audio?

I wanna hear some stories //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

Click to read more...

 

[neo_styles 10+ year member]

Dude, my first system was two sets of Bazooka coax (6.5 and 6x9) and an Aiwa deck. In a Ford Probe. Looking back, I don't know what I was thinking.

But that's not my first real experience...

When I got into it for real, I was living in South Carolina and had a 99 Jetta. I put an Alpine 5-channel in there with an Alpine deck, Alpine S-type coax in the front and Infinity reference coax on the rear deck with a Reference 12" sub in a prefab sealed box. Safe to say the sub didn't last long and swapped that for a 12w3, the amp for a 300/4 and 500/1, and the speakers for TR components in the front and JBL GTO comps on the rear deck.

Safe to say I caught the upgrade bug, but my Jetta was starting to die off, so I traded that car for a 2004 Saturn Ion Redline and swapped my system over minus the HU. Deadened all the doors and trunk, replaced the front comps with Rainbow SLC comps and rear deck with Rainbow coax.

Now I own a 2006 Passat and have only managed to get to replacing the HU after more than 6 years of ownership. But the bug has bit again so we'll see what happens now.

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

Still am a huge n00b.

Started with a single planet audio 12" that I found in the garage in a box.

The wiring job was AN ABSOLUTE mess. I can't believe fires weren't started. Ran a capacitor, wiring, and amp all from wal-mart. Such a fail

 

[neo_styles 10+ year member]

Lol I think your first build has to be chock full of mistakes. As long as you don't burn your car down you can fix it and move on. I almost wired both 12v remote wires from the HU harness and factory adapter to each other which would have been a $650 fail.

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

my first mistakes were before most of the peeps on here were swimming in their daddy's hairy sack

 

[Dtrom 10+ year member]

Not my first setup but the first time I had bass in my car or even heard subs before was a pair of RF P1 12's in a Rockford manufacture vented box (box looked awesome IMO). My uncle lended me the subs and an amp (RF 300.1? I think) to use for a couple days as I was considering purchasing them and wanted to try them out first. I was driving around like king sh1t in my sunfire with that setup. It wasnt very loud to my ears but I could feel it in the seats and I loved it. I ended up taking it over to my buddies house to show him and he sh1t on me with a pair of explode 12's sealed in a cutlass. I thought his 12's were the best thing around lol.

Since then I've gone on to own CVR 12's, CVX 12's, W7 13, HCCA 12's (currently).

 

[neo_styles 10+ year member]

Meh no need to have a size competition. What mistakes were you making (directed at fronty)?

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

running orion reds back in the day and wondering why my alt kept melting every 3 months or so in my 86 thunderbird

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

Meh no need to have a size competition. What mistakes were you making (directed at fronty)?

size should always be relevant to your personal goals, and the space you have.

 

---------- Post added at 01:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:00 PM ----------

 

running orion reds back in the day and wondering why my alt kept melting every 3 months or so in my 86 thunderbird

LOL i did that too. Burned up my alternator in 1 year. I was so dumb

 

[Dtrom 10+ year member]

Anyone ever smoke their car out from burning coils?

My whole eclipse filled up with smoke after I destroyed my W7. Sh1t stinks and the smell takes forever to go away.

 

[neo_styles 10+ year member]

size should always be relevant to your personal goals, and the space you have.

I didn't mean size of your enclosure...

And the electrical in those 80s Tbirds was a nightmare. I'm surprised those things didn't ignite from daily driving on stock systems.

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

I didn't mean size of your enclosure...
And the electrical in those 80s Tbirds was a nightmare. I'm surprised those things didn't ignite from daily driving on stock systems.

You meant the speaker size? because that is what I was referring too.

 

[neo_styles 10+ year member]

Anyone ever smoke their car out from burning coils? My whole eclipse filled up with smoke after I destroyed my W7. Sh1t stinks and the smell takes forever to go away.

Thank God, no. I got screamed at enough when I smoked cigarettes in the car and my wife could smell it two days later. Don't want to know what she'd say about burnt coils...

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

Anyone ever smoke their car out from burning coils? My whole eclipse filled up with smoke after I destroyed my W7. Sh1t stinks and the smell takes forever to go away.

That God I didn't. And it's a surprise. Because I know my amps were clipping HARD. I had the gain jacked up and thought it was a volume knob.

 

[neo_styles 10+ year member]

You meant the speaker size? because that is what I was referring too.

No, I mean the size of your equipment //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/redface.gif.62fdbfe1a101588a808c4cff71bcb942.gif