The most stupid thing you have done during an Install?

[RipDaJacka]

accidentally unscrewed my allen head scews on my amp so I was holdin one in my mouth until I could get the other one screwed in.. Then I went to sneeze and sucked in real hard and swallowed the screw.. it too like 2 weeks to find another screw to fit... good think I had an old distro block with the same size allen screws

 

[pitbull12888]

I feel stupid for posting this, but it scared tha shit outta me when it happened. While hooking my SAZ1500D up, I mistakenly put the POS in the GRND input and I put the GRND into the POS. I immediately blew the fuses in the amp, and it sparked soooo loud, I thought that I blew the amp. I was like "OH SHIT," when I realized what I had done. The input screw was barely in and it popped somewhere which I have yet to find. I was almost ready to say "F" car audio again, and just leave the amp alone. THANK GOD FOR FUSES. I quickly checked the fuses and sure enough I had blown all four. Luckily I have an extra pack of 40's in the tool box. I replaced the fuses and the amp works fine. Talk about being scared shitless. Looking back on it now, I just have to laugh at myself, for not paying better attention. I know I am gonna get flamed for this, but oh well.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/*******.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif

I always keep 40's in my toolbox //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif lolz

Umm prolly stapling my hand to the box while putting on vinyl. My buddie has done the same thing as u before. I was watchin and he jumped back quick as hell, couldnt help but laugh.

 

[BlueAc 10+ year member]

I wired the the power wire for my old cadence eq into the power antenna off the wiring harness instead of the remote turn on. And for about a week or so, everytime i switched from fm radio to listen to a cd my system would shut off. LOL... until finally realized that once the antenna went down I lost sound!!!!

 

[icpurplepplalot 5,000+ posts]

Probably the dumbest thing I have done was measuring, where my seats fold down to my trunk, the lip of the trunk to the floor and totally disregarding that the seats were there and that they were going to be in the way, and building the box to fit that way. When I was finished building the box, I tried for 30 mins to fit it and was so pissed when I couldn't get it in. I ended up just putting the box in my back seat for a week until I built a new box. Was one of the most ghetto and dumbest things I've ever done while installing.

 

[steveyblack 10+ year member]

rushing a box and forgetting to put some screws in...worst sound i have every heard, to pieces of mdf rubbing on eachother

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

wiring ground and power backwards into an amp...

luckily all that happend was a few blown fuses

i was so stupid... i saw it sparking like hell and was like "hmmm?" then saw the fuses popin 1 after another

 

[pwnt by pat 10+ year member]

took an angle grinder to the door of 04 matrix while the window was down.

 

[orphe 10+ year member]

for me it was not removing the ground battery terminal and or fuses before I started. The results were shocking!

 

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

Oh my god.... where to begin.

Shorted out my yellow top (this incident almost melted my ****ing hand off, no lie)

Shorted out my kinetik.

Hooked the Batt + to the starter instead of the alternator.

Tried to take out the passenger airbag.

Fixed the starter/fuse box wire with 16g speaker wire.

Opened a used can of great stuff with a hammer and screwdriver.

Bent the alternator bracket trying to get the old one off with a hammer.

Ran a big three wire against the engine manifold.

Tried to cut MDF with a hole saw.

Siliconed a back window to try to cut down wind noise.

Luckily I read on here somewhere to always take the fuses out on your batt wire which I have always done, so I've never damaged any of my amps.

And much more to come when I start my glassing project, I'm sure.

 

[psych0ticnemes1 5,000+ posts]

i installed my fuse 18 inches from my amp, not battery...

 

[traksta15 10+ year member]

screwed one of my subs in upside down and the other one right side up

installed my system and went to turn it on and my amp wouldn't come on so after about 30 mins of troubleshooting I realized I didn't put the fuse under the hood.

 

[Focalrock4life 10+ year member]

I was tightening my Negative battery terminal and i went to far to the left and the socket wrench touched my positive battery terminal and welded itself in place...after a few smacks with a rubber mallet it was free.

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

I was tightening my Negative battery terminal and i went to far to the left and the socket wrench touched my positive battery terminal and welded itself in place...after a few smacks with a rubber mallet it was free.

that's always a classic.

 

[mapolley07 10+ year member]

first time ever installing anything in a car:

Went to install a hu in my friend's '89 caprice.

We were smart and made sure we bought a wiring harness and dash kit as well as some extra wire and tape, etc. just in case.

Well in the old caprices, the panel for the climate controls overlaps the factory radio by about an inch so we ended up taking most of the dash apart trying to install the h/u. in putting it all back together we ended up with about 15-20 screws that we knew we took out of the dash but couldn't remember where from. his dash has a few rattles now and a baggie of screws in the glove box.

I also used wire nuts to connect everything including the glove box light that i cut o get the dash apart.

I also misread the instructions and thought that the h/u mounting sleeve was optional so i used the packaging/shipping screws to mount the stereo into the dash kit. I was really proud of my work so i showed my cousin who proceeded to pull the stereo right out of the dash and redo my 3 days of work in 15 minutes.

 

[AVSTANG02]

Some of these stories should just not be repeated

The worst i've done is cut the wires to a 12v jack before pulling the wires from the battery....