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I have one for you...I sold this kid a 15, an amp and an amp kit.OK normal thing. He calls me up and want me to look at his install. He shows up and I see what going on-He cut the top of the cardboard box and was using it like that, and the amp was grounded to the e brake cable.. What a mess.. Thats where I halfway learned to trouble shoot audoi system-fixing peoples ghetto installs. Sad but fun!
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One of my friends friends just had some mtx thunder6000 12's put in. well he had a 4 ga kit and it fit the amp. some dumbass wired the 4ga all the way to the trunk to a distro block and then ran 8 ga from the distro block to the amp.
i couldnt let him drive around with that going on, plus they didnt drill the firewall, just ran it under the car.
some of that almost doesnt suprise me anymore, lol
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Working at CC I see alot of half assed stuff. My favorite has to be a mitsubishi galant that came in for an alarm. The guy had installed all his speakers and ran all new line. here's the best part. instead of running the wires through the door boot he ran it out under the edge of the panel and under the sill plates. from there it ran around to the front of the console. he then had it running under the dash bezel for the radio and pushed the dash bezel down over it. so you can just imagine this guy with four runs of 12 gauge speaker wire stuffed under the edge of the dash bezel to the back of his radio.
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The worst one I saw was a guy that had speaker wire....yes speaker wire going from the amp to the battery and it was ran on top of the carpet to the firewall then up to the battery. Then the subs were just sitting in the back of the car with no box because he said they were free air subs, amp wasnt shot down to floor or anything this defiently qualified as Bootleg in my book
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I had this guy come in the shop I was working at complaining that after his friend installed some speakers in the back of his truck the sound would cut out every time he switched gears. I was perplexed, how could this possibly happen. Well I found out that it happens when you run wires through the clutch so the pinch and ground out when the cluch is pressed down.
at the same shop we had some kid hook up his amp that had just gotten back from waranty, he came in 10 min later compleining that it didn't work and was smoking. We asked how he hooked it up. He said that he connecter the black wire the said power cable to the possitive and the red wire that said power/ground cable on it to the negative.
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My favorite install, was when a guy brought hiss 01 mustang into my cuz's shop, said he wired it up and it kinda worked, but the right door speaker wouldnt work it just popped sometimes, well... about 5 minutes after he left, I looked down the side of the car and noticed the turn signals on the doors... XP
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wow, so i went to sgi (they sell smashed up cars). and i was looking through this older firebird. and i look at the stereo, and its pretty nice. then i look at the back deck. and the thing was bare metal, had holes cut for the 6"x9"s, and then right in the middle, there was a hole cut for a like 15" sub (not quite sure what size, because ther was nothing in it). and it wasn't nice looking, it was horrible. all he did was take a saw and cut a hole. then i look around on the inside, the wires were sticking out everywhere. but that wasn't the wrost part. as i was getting out of the car. i saw the power wire. yep thats right, i saw the wire. and it was running from under the dash, through the door jam, and then into the top of the hood.
i was laughing so hard. i thought things like that were only in stories. but no. damn i wish i would have had a camera on me
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Ghetto install is my van. WhiteVan Audio ( I want to get shirts made lol I might have my friend who does it make me one) I have 1 15" RE SE (not ghetto), a prefab box for 2 15's that i bought at a flea market for $30, then knocked out the center baffle to double the space, spealed it with DAP all around (it really is airtight tho), put 3 28" 4" dia. pieces of PVC in there on the bottom, put GreatStuff expanding foam all around them because I cut the holes with a jigsaw and crappily I might add, I wired the amp nice and mounted that nice, nothing ghetto about that ( wowowowow i even cut slits in my carpeting to run the wires ), except my remote bass knob has the wire (the telephone wire) electrical taped to the dash so it doesn't hit my legs while I am driving, then there's my JBL Home Audio speakers. They are around 50lbs each, finisihed in natural fakeass wood paneling. I ripped the speaker grilles off both of them because they were downright dirty. I have 2, they each have a 12" ported bass driver, probably around 150 watts (i'm assuming, they are 20 years old rofl), both have blown midranges and smashed in tweets. They are white paper cones, and the suspension is similar to that of a CV stroker, only they have about 4-8mm of peak to peak xmax. They are each 4 ohms, and they are wired in series into my amp, parallel (yes, this is one of those terribly complicated series-parallel circuits) to my dual 4 ohms (in parallel) of my SE, on the same amp. Since the ohm load is reduced, I think my amp is putting out more power, maybe it is due to the extra drivers but the bass sounds a bit louder, but lets not forget the reason I did this is for MIDBASS. Did I meantion I have my tweeters dual stick padded to my fuzzy cealing? Did I also mention they are $10 a pair, and the wire is just ran up the side under my trim, then tucked under the sun visors? Also, I have towels over all my **** so someone doesn't gank it. One of the 3 ports for my SE has a towel stuffed in it to lower the tuning, and it actually works. Also there is about 20 feet of 14ga speakerwire from the left home audio speaker lying behind my back seat, and about 5 from the right, and about 3 from my non ghetto sub. I was thinking of making a sounddomain page just making fun of my stuff, maybe I will when I get it metered at I'm guessing around 130-2? I have no clue really, if I put a penny on my roof it will jump but not flip over, and my overhead lights inside vibarate about 1/4 of an inch. I still have the loudest system at my school!
quote:Originally posted by Seanp2k: Ghetto install is my van. WhiteVan Audio ( I want to get shirts made lol I might have my friend who does it make me one) I have 1 15" RE SE (not ghetto), a prefab box for 2 15's that i bought at a flea market for $30, then knocked out the center baffle to double the space, spealed it with DAP all around (it really is airtight tho), put 3 28" 4" dia. pieces of PVC in there on the bottom, put GreatStuff expanding foam all around them because I cut the holes with a jigsaw and crappily I might add, I wired the amp nice and mounted that nice, nothing ghetto about that ( wowowowow i even cut slits in my carpeting to run the wires ), except my remote bass knob has the wire (the telephone wire) electrical taped to the dash so it doesn't hit my legs while I am driving, then there's my JBL Home Audio speakers. They are around 50lbs each, finisihed in natural fakeass wood paneling. I ripped the speaker grilles off both of them because they were downright dirty. I have 2, they each have a 12" ported bass driver, probably around 150 watts (i'm assuming, they are 20 years old rofl), both have blown midranges and smashed in tweets. They are white paper cones, and the suspension is similar to that of a CV stroker, only they have about 4-8mm of peak to peak xmax. They are each 4 ohms, and they are wired in series into my amp, parallel (yes, this is one of those terribly complicated series-parallel circuits) to my dual 4 ohms (in parallel) of my SE, on the same amp. Since the ohm load is reduced, I think my amp is putting out more power, maybe it is due to the extra drivers but the bass sounds a bit louder, but lets not forget the reason I did this is for MIDBASS. Did I meantion I have my tweeters dual stick padded to my fuzzy cealing? Did I also mention they are $10 a pair, and the wire is just ran up the side under my trim, then tucked under the sun visors? Also, I have towels over all my **** so someone doesn't gank it. One of the 3 ports for my SE has a towel stuffed in it to lower the tuning, and it actually works. Also there is about 20 feet of 14ga speakerwire from the left home audio speaker lying behind my back seat, and about 5 from the right, and about 3 from my non ghetto sub. I was thinking of making a sounddomain page just making fun of my stuff, maybe I will when I get it metered at I'm guessing around 130-2? I have no clue really, if I put a penny on my roof it will jump but not flip over, and my overhead lights inside vibarate about 1/4 of an inch. I still have the loudest system at my school!
i believe your the first person on this thread that has said that their own install was the funniest ever seen...lol
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Funniest i've ever seen was my friend who had two mtx amps runnin 2 old MTX's 2 other mtx's in a bandpass and two other 15's on his seat. anyways he competeted in SS 5+ and got a 134.9 He won't listen to anybody because he used to work at CC
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A box for an L7 built out of pieces of wood from an old pallet.
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the funniest install that i've ever actually seen in person was my own. the first one i had...i lived in a small town so i didn't have to worry about people stealing my ****...b/c it wouldn't be hard to find out who it was. so i didn't worry about hiding my wires and stuff...although...i did fuse the power...and i did not run it thru the door jam. i drilled a hole in my firewall...and just kinda ran it in from there...it came out of a little vent thing under my dash. and then from there...it went straight back to the rear speaker. like right thru the interior...to get in the car...you had to duck under this wire. from there it went under the rear deck speaker grille. and into the trunk from there. all the other wires were the same way...just on the other side of the car. remote and RCAs and stuff. i didn't have any problems with it until my friends started complaining that it looked like ****. i didn't care...it was louder than their cars. i had two fake sony xplods. they were red and round...and they said xblod on them. whenever anybody at school saw them...they thought they were sonys. i remember we were sittin in my friends driveway hooking up the last of the speakerwire to the walmart boxes when some girl pulled up and she had 2 lightning audio 10s. and one of my friends was like, "hey you two should see who'se louder" and she goes..."no way he's got sony xplods in there...he's way louder" i just couldn't stop from laughing. it was pretty darn funny. but since then i have fixed the problematic wires thru the car...and i have a different car. all wires are hidden...it's just that the big 18s in the backseat aren't hidden. oh well.
quote:Originally posted by ProZach: the funniest install that i've ever actually seen in person was my own. the first one i had...i lived in a small town so i didn't have to worry about people stealing my ****...b/c it wouldn't be hard to find out who it was. so i didn't worry about hiding my wires and stuff...although...i did fuse the power...and i did not run it thru the door jam. i drilled a hole in my firewall...and just kinda ran it in from there...it came out of a little vent thing under my dash. and then from there...it went straight back to the rear speaker. like right thru the interior...to get in the car...you had to duck under this wire. from there it went under the rear deck speaker grille. and into the trunk from there. all the other wires were the same way...just on the other side of the car. remote and RCAs and stuff. i didn't have any problems with it until my friends started complaining that it looked like ****. i didn't care...it was louder than their cars. i had two fake sony xplods. they were red and round...and they said xblod on them. whenever anybody at school saw them...they thought they were sonys. i remember we were sittin in my friends driveway hooking up the last of the speakerwire to the walmart boxes when some girl pulled up and she had 2 lightning audio 10s. and one of my friends was like, "hey you two should see who'se louder" and she goes..."no way he's got sony xplods in there...he's way louder" i just couldn't stop from laughing. it was pretty darn funny. but since then i have fixed the problematic wires thru the car...and i have a different car. all wires are hidden...it's just that the big 18s in the backseat aren't hidden. oh well.
ok...your the second person...lol
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