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Since I work in Fayetteville (aka the ghetto of N.C.) I see ALOT of weird stuff. One day, several guys came in to get some help troubleshooting their "Award winning install". I went outside to see the car and see what was going on. It sounded fine untill he cranked the car. Alternator whine was horrible, along with the bad volume potentiometer in the 1976 2 know Pioneer radio. He said that the car would'nt cut off until you removed the RCA cable from the sub amp. I did'nt believe it until he showed me. Sure enough, he cranked the car...popped the trunk...and proceeded to remove the RCA inputs..guess what..the car shut off. I'm not quite sure how it happened. I stood there in disbelief for quite some time. They wanted to know how much I would charge to fix this "little problem". I told them "There is NO way I could do this without having to remove the whole system from the car, and having to reinstall it." The response was "Cuz, I only have, like, $30 bucks on me..can you hook me up?"...I said "Umm...no thanks, try Circuit City..lol"
I never did find out what happened to the car, or if it ever got fixed, but, what I would like to know is how could the RCA pass signal from the radio AND voltage. Keep in mind, I didnt really look into this a whole lot for basic reasons of fear..lol, but I THINK the amp was playing (there was ALOT of junk in the car along with the system) so I don't know if it was working or not. If you might know how this worked..or didnt work...let me know. Thanks
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my question is the first time you realize that the car will not cut off how in the hell do you come to the realization to pull the RCA's from the sub amp? I would be looking at everything in the world but would never have thought of that. On a different note if they could figure out to reverse this so that the car wouldn't crank until you plugged the RCA's in, then you got one helluva security system. This made me laugh for several minutes, good one.
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When I was working in a transmission shop (I was 16), we had a car come in once that had a similar problem. Well, not really, but, anyway, we always had the car radio playing while we worked on them, yanking a tranny or whatever. Anyway, I'm working on this '78 mustang, and had the radio on, I pulled the driveshaft, and the radio shut off! Wow, I thought to myself, pull the drive shaft, radio turns off??? Ok, whatever! I tracked it down to a missing ground strap, the CAR had no ground, but the engine did, so, appearantly, all the accessories were finding ground through the engine ground, which, when the driveshaft was yanked, no longer became a ground for the car. I would have to assume that something similar is going on with this guys car also.
------------------ STILL waiting to hear a GOOD pair of HLCD's!!
If it dont fit, force it... if it breaks, it needed to be replaced anyway...
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Hmm...What ever it was it kinda funny. Bonus points for creative security system.lol
------------------ Robert (Rob) 1996 Chevy Cavlier 2.2L proaudio150@aol.com Member Of "Team Gates" and "Team Shockwave" USAC Sactioned Judge -----Judged----- 1999 Spring Break Nationals 1999 Midwest Regional http://www.sounddomain.com/5349 My up and coming SQ and SPL system.
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