The worse installation job I've ever seen

[steveyblack 10+ year member]

edison, you?

 

[dragonrage 10+ year member]

Well it wasn't actually speaker wire. It looked more like power and ground wire.

Do you actually think there's something special about speaker wire? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

Do you actually think there's something special about speaker wire? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

Speaker wire is directional... duh.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif

 

[krstofer 10+ year member]

edison, you?

Hawthorne.

No I don't think there is anything different about speaker wire. But if you are going to wire a system that someone else may potentially work on, it is better to use some kind of wire that is more identifiable with speaker wire.

It is better, IMO, to use something that looks like this:

Than this:

 

[bds0688 10+ year member]

I once fixed a HU that wouldn't fade or balance correctly.

Turns out the previous installer felt it was a good idea to put speakers on whichever speaker lead he felt. All taped up, hell, the wires weren't even wrapped then taped..just taped. A negative lead from the front left was attached to the positive of the front right and negative of the left front.

I told the person never to let the previous installer touch wires again, and it was her brother.

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

uhhhhhhhh

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

a dood i knew once grounded his amp through the floor of his trunk straight into his gas tank and ran it that way for about a year before realizing what he had done

 

[Decipha 10+ year member]

o/t

i did an install in a 96 gmc jimmy, the owner was suppose to bring me the hu to install but insisted that best buy install it since it was included with the price of the unit. So i installed everything: directed 1100d, 2x ma audio 15s in 2.5^3 chambers sealed. I ran the rca's and the remote lead up behind the factory head unit and zip tied them to the factory harness, that way when the man installed the head unit he could just connect the remote lead and rca's and call it a day. Well, the next day I get a call its him again, he tells me he got his new head unit but yet his subs don't work when he plays cd's. So i get to his house and yank the unit out. The bastards at BB connected the rcas to the rear output instead of the sub???? dont' ask me why, -and connected the remote to the power antenna output that way the amp only came on when the radio was on... i hate the dum shiits

 

[gl0ck 10+ year member]

Not only that, but on the Mazda 3, the deck is frequency limiting at higher volume, so the higher the volume, the deck cuts lower frequencies to the speakers to protect factory speakers. You don't notice at low to mid volume, but crank it up and see what it does. We experienced this when these cars first came out. Totally bit. Not much you can do if you have to keep the factory deck, because thats where it is limited, not any external amp to bypass or tap on in front of.

Interesting i did a LOC on my girlfriends mazda 3 and barely noticed anything like that Thanks for the info !//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[chucku 10+ year member]

My friend mounted an amp for his GF, he screwed through the trunk in to the gas tank. Took them awhile to figure out where the gas smell was coming from when she filled it. Cost big bucks to fix because while removing the tank to fix it the straps had to be replaced. Hes 40 yrs old and has mechanical experience!?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

 

[M1K3 10+ year member]

My friend mounted an amp for his GF, he screwed through the trunk in to the gas tank. Took them awhile to figure out where the gas smell was coming from when she filled it. Cost big bucks to fix because while removing the tank to fix it the straps had to be replaced. Hes 40 yrs old and has mechanical experience!?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

hah i know some one with an audi s4 and when he was mounting his box he drilled 8 holes into his gas tank.

he tried to seal it with some putty but he didnt know that gas tanks were pressurized... what i would give to see that shit fly again //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[wolfman1966 10+ year member]

when I was younger, i mounted an amp in the back part of my jeep cherokee...well then I started smelling gas...yeah, I screwed into the tank....so i took out the amp, then lifted the carpe where I could see the tank,and put a screw with a grommet in the hole, then used silocone to seal it. guess it worked, gas smell went away, and I had no problems after that.

 

[jakesford 10+ year member]

haha I remember a guy of my350z talking about a best buy installer screwing into the gas tank while mounting an infinity basslink in the stock sub location

Atleast you know best buy has insurance