Thanks, Fed Ex

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

2X4 Crate + pool noodles inside cardboard box....marked fragile of course.

Fortunately they actually honored the claim and I was able to salveage some parts (plus the motor).

Unfortunately I built a replacement and shipped it out and they broke that too LOL. The guy who got it is re-coning himself. I suspect he'll post pics when he does.

Sad, I did some testing with this sub and it really got loud and sounded pretty good.

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[09civic 5,000+ posts]

dam that *****.

 

[T.I.K. 10+ year member]

Great looking sub!

 

[Bettr n' Revrse 5,000+ posts]

Woaw!

 

[tuckintaco93 10+ year member]

i thought the 4 spokes were know for breaking like that ...you have pics b4 u shipped it

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

Before pics....

 

[sleazebagger 10+ year member]

I dont get it. Did the basket snap off... wtf??

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

Here's the second one that broke

Put a little polish to the back plate....looked really nice.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

I dont get it. Did the basket snap off... wtf??

Yep. Motor was actually hanging by the spiders when I got it back LOL.... **** good spiders IMO...they're pretty well "broken in" now I think.

 

[sleazebagger 10+ year member]

Yep. Motor was actually hanging by the spiders when I got it back LOL.... **** good spiders IMO...they're pretty well "broken in" now I think.

lulz

fckers!. glad they took care of you though. still a dam hassle none the less.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

lulz
fckers!. glad they took care of you though. still a dam hassle none the less.

Well considering I got a couple 15" sigs shipped to me safely in the same crates VIA UPS.....I mean if UPS didn't break them Fed Ex has no excuse. UPS is the absolute worst. If it weren't for the 70 pound cutoff with USPS I'd use them exclusively.... USPS won't do 106 pounds though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[Wingman0121 10+ year member]

It probably made a nasty landing on the conveyor belt at the sorting facility.

 

[sacsking916 5,000+ posts]

What kind of motor is that?

 

[SPLaudio 5,000+ posts]

that *****!

fix those leads before you install so you dont have lead slap...

 

[Bettr n' Revrse 5,000+ posts]

that *****!
fix those leads before you install so you dont have lead slap...

Mine wasnt this bad hahaha

 

[ace_800 5,000+ posts]

jesus.....that thing looks monstrous. What could it handle power wise?

 

[THATpurpleKUSH 5,000+ posts]

***** to see this, at least you won the claim. I bought a sub a month and a half ago from another forum and UPS managed to crack the motor all the way around and the sender sent my $ back, not sure if he won the claim though.

 

[bhsdriller 10+ year member]

Thats why I don't like using crates....they're almost too secure. With the sub being screwed in there's no forgiveness. All of the pressure was put right on the basket...with only pool noodles under the motor there was nothing to hold it up

If the box was ever on it's side during shipment it would act like the sub is mounted on a vertical baffle...with that huge *** motor there wasn't any support and the basket gave out

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

This is why I don't trust crates. One good drop and the entire thing can collapse.

I just picked up a pair of 9510's that were shipped extremely well. After seeing the way he packaged these, I'm never going to use a crate. These subs could have been dropped off a building and they would have been fine.

This is the way to package heavy subs:

Took me 15 minutes to cut each sub out of the box. No chance in hell they were getting damaged.

 

[i2ain2thunder 10+ year member]

It probably made a nasty landing on the conveyor belt at the sorting facility.

Over 75 lbs is considered an "irregular" package and does not go on the conveyor belt. trams roll through the warehouse with them and they get manually lifted up to the catwalks then loaded into the trailer last usually on the floor level with light packages piled on top.

(can you tell where I worked once)