Difference between car audio intelligence, and plain stupidity

[Supergumby5000 5,000+ posts]

A kid i know from school dropped by at a party i had yesterday. He had a pretty loud system, so i was curious to see what he had in there.

Well, i went and took a look, and it was actually perdy decent. Pioneer 980 headunit, components up front on a 2ch amp, and a JL w7 in a ported box built to JL's specs. Im not gonna lie, it sounded great. So, i asked to take a look at the actual equipment , so i jumped out o fthe truck and swung the back door open to take a peak.

First off, the wires were all in a jumble, just everywhere (which i guess is kinda typical). I took a look at his ground wires for his amps, and each amp had about 3 8guage wires fed to each ground terminal, making a total of 6 (might of been 7). He ran these wires down through a drilled hole where the chassis of the car touched the frame. this is where it gets interesting.

I take a look at his ground connection. It was touching both frame and chassis (which touched each other anyways). But, not only was the grounding spot NOT sanded down, but there was no terminal on the end of these combined 7 wires, or anything holding the ground to the chassis/frame. the wires were literally RESTING in the hole he drilled.

I turned around and asked him to clarify that i was not seeing things, and he just says "yeah, it works...." then pulls the wires out, with his car on, and everything makes a loud "whoomp" sound. He then shows me the wires, and proceeds to put them back into there little hole, and the amps turn back on.

I didnt know what to do, so i just closed the door and walked away.

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[Skip01 5,000+ posts]

Yikes.......he'll learn the hard way when smoke starts pouring out the back

 

[Qbenjamin 10+ year member]

Wow, can you say fire is destined.......

 

[SkatinBassPLaya]

lazy dumbass

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

wow.

His system wont be loud for long...Soon it will be melting.

 

[jake760 10+ year member]

my friend has his ground as a peice of speaker wire resting in the lighter thing in the dash. another guy I know his sub is a sony xlplode in a sealed 5 gallon bucket enclosure.

 

[AVX Mike 10+ year member]

If he ported that bucket he would be on the right track. That and ditch the sony.

 

[DeViOuSoNe 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif Bucket idea is genius //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

A kid i know from school dropped by at a party i had yesterday. He had a pretty loud system, so i was curious to see what he had in there.
Well, i went and took a look, and it was actually perdy decent. Pioneer 980 headunit, components up front on a 2ch amp, and a JL w7 in a ported box built to JL's specs. Im not gonna lie, it sounded great. So, i asked to take a look at the actual equipment , so i jumped out o fthe truck and swung the back door open to take a peak.

First off, the wires were all in a jumble, just everywhere (which i guess is kinda typical). I took a look at his ground wires for his amps, and each amp had about 3 8guage wires fed to each ground terminal, making a total of 6 (might of been 7). He ran these wires down through a drilled hole where the chassis of the car touched the frame. this is where it gets interesting.

I take a look at his ground connection. It was touching both frame and chassis (which touched each other anyways). But, not only was the grounding spot NOT sanded down, but there was no terminal on the end of these combined 7 wires, or anything holding the ground to the chassis/frame. the wires were literally RESTING in the hole he drilled.

I turned around and asked him to clarify that i was not seeing things, and he just says "yeah, it works...." then pulls the wires out, with his car on, and everything makes a loud "whoomp" sound. He then shows me the wires, and proceeds to put them back into there little hole, and the amps turn back on.

I didnt know what to do, so i just closed the door and walked away.

If this is a true story?

OH

EM

GEE

!

!

Go back and hit him repeatedly in the head until he ceases being conscious.

Take his gear.

Install it in your ride in the proper fashion.

When he wakes and starts complaining tell him he doesn't deserve really nice equipment if he is going to knowingly abuse it in such a fashion.

 

[jake760 10+ year member]

Yeah the bucket was so funny I almost fell on the ground. Another funny one I seen was the walmart spl system, 2 lightning audios in the trunk, 2 in the back seat, and 1 in the passenger seat.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[AltarCrystal 10+ year member]

Yeah the bucket was so funny I almost fell on the ground. Another funny one I seen was the walmart spl system, 2 lightning audios in the trunk, 2 in the back seat, and 1 in the passenger seat.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

Like...the subs were just chillin' in the seats...

...I'd ATLEAST put them in a children's seat.

 

[Earthman 10+ year member]

I don't even know what to say about this

 

[spike_e 10+ year member]

If this is a true story?Go back and hit him repeatedly in the head until he ceases being conscious.

Take his gear.

Install it in your ride in the proper fashion.

When he wakes and starts complaining tell him he doesn't deserve really nice equipment if he is going to knowingly abuse it in such a fashion.

x2

 

[LowLowBass 10+ year member]

all i can say is ..........

 

[corex 10+ year member]

is this guy asking for his shit to get stolen too or what?

i sure as hell wouldn't flaunt around a w7 to random people, just asking for the stuff to get picked up