I am ready

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

That is the only install shop near me though.

they are everywhere

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[Fiercetimbo17 10+ year member]

Not sure if you are troll or not, but either way you are not ready to be a installer.

However knowing best buy they might believe your claims of knowing what you are doing,hire you on until you dome some realll dumb shit and get fired. It will then add to the persona of best buy having bad installers.

 

[IHaveItGood 10+ year member]

First off you need to get a car a 23 year old using the parents car thats terrible. Also there is more to car audio than just head units speakers amps and subs. I learned this the other day. If you work on newer vehicles be prepared to take off panels that revel air bags, if they want to keep the factory head unit than you are most likeliness going to have to use something like the JL clean sweep. But also sense there is another wire for the bass signal and there installing a sub you also have to get something like the mtx eq. This all was in a 2008 Honda accord I worked on. I though it was going to be cake but it did take some time to work on it 4 day to be exact from dynamat to tuning. One other thing you will also need to know the basic's on alarms and remote starts. Not putting you down man just letting you know that someone who thinks there ready needs to tread softly were they do there work. But good luck man hope you do get a job somewhere just let them know that you are still learning.

You don't know the situation of me and my family so you can't say I should have a car. I pay insurance, gas and have to chip in for the household. We simply can't afford for me to have a car, otherwise I would.

I do want to learn about all this. That is why I am asking what I need.

 

[IHaveItGood 10+ year member]

wtf is so hard about remote wires..

I guess nothing would be. it's just that I haven't dealt with them. None of the radios have had remotes.

 

[IHaveItGood 10+ year member]

I just don't see the point to trolling............
Are you people really that bored?

Hell, even I have a ton of posts........due to being at work most of the time I post, but why do you get your rocks off trolling?

I will never understand the crunk times guys or the newbies getting butt hurt for being banned.

I don't understand. What is trolling and who are you talking to?

 

[IHaveItGood 10+ year member]

while you guys are ebing ruff on him...listen here kid you're going to community college right?
are you transferring to a 4yr school after your 2 or not?

there are schools for car and home stereo/AV installs and such. Smartest thing would be to goto a 4 yr for small business management, then a year at a installer school, the whole time doing as many installs and working during summers and nights at shops etc. then leave the shop you've been at for around 4 years and go work with REAL installer for a number of years. pray you get on TV, open up a shop etc. But there are honestly a few HOT Spots for CA across the USA. if you're not in them(located in MAJOR cities), then whatever you set up shop you are really limiting yourself...just an FYI

also CA is getting smaller then it was years ago. and i doubt the trend will change. with so many cars coming with in dash DVD players and NAV stock less and less need a fancy deck installed. and BB steals a ton of customers from local 'good' CA shops.

i would never want to do it for a living even though i do probably 6 installers a year for family and friends.

Thanks for the info. I do plan on going to another school. I wasn't sure if there was something in particular I should study. You think business management would be the best?

 

[IHaveItGood 10+ year member]

OP, the CD player has a REMOTE WIRE... not necessarily a remote. You can do it the way that you are doing it, but most of the time, unless the switch has a light on it, it is easy to forget to turn off your amp and drain the battery.
As for the 1 15" and 2 12"s..... you just need to read.

Take all this advice, even if it seems mean, and read A LOT MORE!!!!! before you try to get a job and install anymore!!!

All of them? Which one is this remote wire? Is it on the cars wire harness?

 

[IHaveItGood 10+ year member]

its in seffner on parsons @ MLK

I was gonna ask where, lol. Thanks, I'll look em up.

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

It's not a "remote" it's a wire coming out of the cd player. It tells your amp to turn on when you turn your keys to acc, or start it.

I don't know if anyone can explain that anymore clearly... Unless you have a deck from 1987 it probably has a remote wire. I think it's normally a blue wire, but I haven't hooked up an amp in a couple years, so don't really recall.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Clemsonhacker 10+ year member]

the remote wire is the blue one coming out of the radios wiring harness...

 

[IHaveItGood 10+ year member]

I thought that was for powered antannaes. None of the cars I did had one, so I just pulled the wire out of the harness.

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Not ever worth the time dood.

 

[Torgus 10+ year member]

You don't know the situation of me and my family so you can't say I should have a car. I pay insurance, gas and have to chip in for the household. We simply can't afford for me to have a car, otherwise I would.
I do want to learn about all this. That is why I am asking what I need.

there are a bunch of haters on here. ignore them if you can. the fact you arn't flaming back is a great start.

fwiw my 1st 3 installs in my 1st 3 cars all had amps with a turn on turn off switch. now they did connect to the blue headunit remote turn on but that's irrelevant. there is nothing wrong with a switch to turn on or off any of the amps in your car.

as for school i only say small business management if you wanted to own a shop. which should be your desire if you want to get into this field. working for someone for the rest of your life = fail. also you have something to fall back on.

other than sbm an EE degree would help most. an EE will let you go more places without a doubt and gives a GREAT background for understanding it all but unless you like math stay away. ME is boring shit. stay far away.

basically in this field(ca/ht) you can(to make money): design amps, design speakers, installs, marketing/sales, own a company which does some all/some of that. that's it. very small field and it's not getting bigger, especially not in the USA. If it's what you want to do great, go at it.

honestly if you understood EVERYTHING on this website: http://www.bcae1.com/ and http://www.caraudiobook.com/

i would hire you to do installs. but not a second before. you should have all of that memorized anyways if you want to go anywhere in the world of car audio/HT. Also learn how to design correctly enclosures for both home and ca. understand every **** spec of a speaker etc. be familiar with modeling it on a comp etc. help people out on this forum designing their enclosures and giving advice. READ alot. and know that HT is VERY different from CA and is MUCH more advanced in many aspects, as well as being more profitable and interesting to say the least. I know a guy who works for a HT install place and makes easily 65k a year w/ no education just as an installer.

and get a job at a ca/ht shop asap. you'll learn alot there mainly the hands on stuff as alot of shops **** at designing a 'good' system. that or they don't take the time who knows. also get some audio books there is a TON written on the subject. there is at least 10-15 good books you should read.

and anyone who gives you shit about not having a car can go **** themselfs. i do suggest buying a junker asap. find a $500 beater. learning how to fix cars is very useful, and you can try out different build inside your own ride.

oh and remember speaker technology hasn't 'really' changed really since the 70s, no matter what anyone says.

 

[IHaveItGood 10+ year member]

Not ever worth the time dood.

The remote wire isn't worth it?

 

[Torgus 10+ year member]

The remote wire isn't worth it?

no he means it isn't worth his time replying to your post.

i used to work in plant city btw. at the Bill Heard Chevy. as i assume the only plant city is in FL?