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<blockquote data-quote="XanderMoser" data-source="post: 3307318" data-attributes="member: 574859">When you&#039;re actually driving, you won&#039;t hear or feel as much bass because the noise in the car will be much louder than when just sitting there. I&#039;m not sure if this is your problem, but it sounds like it&#039;s part of it.To check your voltage, get a digital multimeter. Radioshack is fine. Set it to DC volts (20). Now put the red lead on the battery positive, and the black lead on the battery negative. It doesn&#039;t matter what battery you do it on, it is a total system voltage. It will be the same everywhere (should be anyway). Do this while your car is off, and do it when your car is on. You can also try it with the system on with the car running. With the car off, voltage should be around 12. With the car on, it should be closer to 13.5 or so.Most stock alternators are higher than that...I&#039;m not saying there aren&#039;t any 60 amp alternators, but it&#039;s not that common. My stock alternator is 120 amps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="XanderMoser, post: 3307318, member: 574859"] When you're actually driving, you won't hear or feel as much bass because the noise in the car will be much louder than when just sitting there. I'm not sure if this is your problem, but it sounds like it's part of it. To check your voltage, get a digital multimeter. Radioshack is fine. Set it to DC volts (20). Now put the red lead on the battery positive, and the black lead on the battery negative. It doesn't matter what battery you do it on, it is a total system voltage. It will be the same everywhere (should be anyway). Do this while your car is off, and do it when your car is on. You can also try it with the system on with the car running. With the car off, voltage should be around 12. With the car on, it should be closer to 13.5 or so. Most stock alternators are higher than that...I'm not saying there aren't any 60 amp alternators, but it's not that common. My stock alternator is 120 amps. [/QUOTE]

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