What the hell do I say to this guy?

[ArrizX 10+ year member]

Okay So i need some help. I have an alpine headunit, Infinity Speakers, Infinity amp, 2 12" Kicker Comp CVRs subs.
Okay Now I have a 4 chan infinity amp. I have my 4 speakers/ 2 subs powered off it. Yes I know I need to get a Mono amp which I am soon.

now, I had 50ft of orange extention cord running through my car (seen in pics) I forgot how my amp was wired. Todd (XXchiovdaxx) or whatever on here wired it up for me and it bumped hard.

So yeah I replaced the cord with some nice wire hooked it all up speakers sound good, but the sub doesnt work right. take a look at the pic on how i have it wired. What's wrong here? I took the 2 chan dedicated to 4 speakers. I put the 2 (-) wires together and the 2 (+) wires together.

Now for the subs. I have them both wired so I have one chan for one sub and the other chan for the other.

So why does it not sound right? When I put the RCA in the amp for the SUBS when i put both of them (white and red) nothing really happens. When I put only ONE (doesnt matter the color) in its got bass. But it's not as loud as it was.

So what's wrong here????????? ughhh

BEFORE:

AFTER:

seems kinda hopeless huh???

id like to help, but not sure what to say. this is off a civic site.

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[designcode]

Re-wire! that just looks messy!

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

ZOMG that is a rats nest. Tell him to unhook everything immediately and have someone that knows what they are doing hook it up before he smokes all of his equipment which he likely already has done.

Stay away from that thing, shes gonna buuurrrnnnn doownn!!!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

 

[SocMunky 10+ year member]

Tell him he should take it to a qualified shop. It's not expensive to have them hook up the amp, especially if he's done the work of running the wire already.

 

[SilverSquared 10+ year member]

tell him not to be an electrician

 

[Racerx250 10+ year member]

Rewire everything. Starting at the battery. Pretty sure he'd be better off re-doing the HU, ALL the speakers. Probably find a new ground. Remove everything. Then replace nice and neatly.

 

[ArrizX 10+ year member]

I want to show him that thread about that one car fire because the system was hooked up wrong, but I cant find the thread

anyone know what thread im talking about, where the car was just absolute toast.

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

edit: holy **** that is ugly....i agree with ^^^^^all of them

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

I want to show him that thread about that one car fire because the system was hooked up wrong, but I cant find the thread

anyone know what thread im talking about, where the car was just absolute toast.

Yes bet the actual fire was because the car was leaking water behind the dash due to a fender bender.

But here it is

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=248184&highlight=golf+fire

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

Zomg

 

[ArrizX 10+ year member]

Yes bet the actual fire was because the car was leaking water behind the dash due to a fender bender.
But here it is

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=248184&highlight=golf+fire

Thats not the one.... there is one. maybe it was a small truck. But either way, it was completely torched because of the big 3 i think

Zomg

hah i know right

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

tell him to resize the pictures to a viewable size

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

Thats not the one.... there is one. maybe it was a small truck. But either way, it was completely torched because of the big 3 i think

That was just the one were the alternator casing was focked, atleast the one Im thinking about. The positive lead ring terminal grounded on the case of the alt and it welded itself to the casing. Should have burned down, but didnt. We might be talking about something different though.

 

[ArrizX 10+ year member]

That was just the one were the alternator casing was focked, atleast the one Im thinking about. The positive lead ring terminal grounded on the case of the alt and it welded itself to the casing. Should have burned down, but didnt. We might be talking about something different though.

Yeah, I remember that one.

Hah, maybe I dont remember what i'm talking about. I know I saw the pictures though. The car was a total loss. Everything was gone. Burned to the metal. HMmmmmmm

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

Either way, bad wiring=bad fire