Mad about recent car audio installation. Do you think I have the right to mad?

[Fiendstolemyamp 10+ year member]

i use 14 awg

Agreed, I recently shopped & the best price I found was @ halfpricecaraudio.com, they sell stinger wire in 5 ft increments http://www.halfpricecaraudio.com/Stinger-SPW514BK-14-Gauge-Black-Speaker-Wire-5-Foot-Increments.htm best price I found unless you just use generic wire, (witch is prob fine).

 

[TheePsycho]

i use 14 awg minimum due to the distances and my desire to have low resistance. i also solder/heatshrink but you'll be hard pressed to find a shop that will solder. takes so much longer and most people aren't willing to pay.
you never said how much the install was. less than $200 and you got your money's worth.

$850 for the dvd/navi headunit, 5 channel amp, hard wire Valentine 1, install 4 speakers & 2 tweeters, and the only parts I had to buy from them was a $50 satellites radio box and alpine type r speakers components and coaxial. They supposedly polyfilled and placed dynamat in the sound bar but not the front like I asked. We will see when I take everything apart to rewire it if they actually did that to the sound bar.

I have 20ft of 12ga knuconcepts twisted speaker wire and a 50ft roll of stinger 16ga twisted speaker wire here. I would assume the 16ga stinger would be perfectly fine to install for the speakers. Would the 12ga be okay or would it cause any resistantce of any sorts?

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

larger gauge wire is fine. only problem comes in getting to the speaker sometimes //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Worlddre 5,000+ posts]

If $850 was labor you were charged excessively. I am an installer and that would have been $460 in labor from me.

 

[TheePsycho]

$850 for labor and the alpine type r sp-60 & sp-60c speakers and jvc sirius tuner box. So by your labor estimate if I paid $460 for labor and $50 for the sirius tuner box then I paid $340 for the speakers.