your biggest car audio mistake...

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

letting a friend who i felt new more than me abotu installing stereo and finding out he probly knew less than me when i foudn out that mr right fornt speaker was wired to the rear right speaker, haveing the power antenna wire wired to the rear left speaker wire and having no rear speakers. hours to fix, but happy now

 

[GSteg 10+ year member]

biggest mistake= running 12 gauge as power wire

 

[80_Cutlass_mn 10+ year member]

haveing the power antenna wire wired to the rear left speaker wire and having no rear speakers

Now thats just phucked up right there lol.

biggest mistake= running 12 gauge as power wire

And what may I ask was this rather...ahem....Small wire powering Gsteg?

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

ummm...sony coaxials...and blaupunkt coaxials...and yeah. and i did an install for another kid...and the CD player turned on and then quit...couldn't phucking figure out what was wrong...looked at all amps, wiring and ****. Turned out that his fuse in the stock fuse box in car blew...replaced it and were up in running...wasted like an hour and a half of my time. oh well, peace
NG

done that a few times wit different fuses

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

it was kinda funny how i found out though, i tried fading it up front and foudn out only one speaker worked(left) then faded it back and foudn out right speaker worked.

lol.. nother mistake getting all frustradted when i finished wiring some tweets in a very awkward possistion(good hour to put them in) and finding out only one wanted to work, after checking all the wireing i remebered it was faded to one side(30mins later)

 

[80_Cutlass_mn 10+ year member]

lol.. nother mistake getting all frustradted when i finished wiring some tweets in a very awkward possistion(good hour to put them in) and finding out only one wanted to work, after checking all the wireing i remebered it was faded to one side(30mins later)

HAHA :hilarious //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif ....Thats funny. If im not too mistaken I think ive done somehting like that before but im not really sure if I have or not. But there is another mistake one of my friends made which is rather stupid. One of my friends has a 1100 watt Pyle of **** bridged to two Kenwood eXcelon DB+ 10" subwoofers. That has to be the worst sounding thing ive ever heard in my life.

 

[GSteg 10+ year member]

And what may I ask was this rather...ahem....Small wire powering Gsteg?

that was to my Profile 600MSX..it was a while ago when i first got into car audio. :thumbsup

 

[80_Cutlass_mn 10+ year member]

that was to my Profile 600MSX..it was a while ago when i first got into car audio. :thumbsup

lol ouch....can you say starving an amp for power. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/scared.gif.f134e57c6c93ccd0f15aa5ac32c7d4a0.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

HAHA :hilarious //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif ....Thats funny. If im not too mistaken I think ive done somehting like that before but im not really sure if I have or not. But there is another mistake one of my friends made which is rather stupid. One of my friends has a 1100 watt Pyle of **** bridged to two Kenwood eXcelon DB+ 10" subwoofers. That has to be the worst sounding thing ive ever heard in my life.

so glad once i got them in and faded right, wow they made such a difference in the back, where the sub drowned otu all the highs from the front

 

[80_Cutlass_mn 10+ year member]

Oh trust me I know all about how much of a difference a set of tweeters can make. I went to a local shop and bought a pair of cheapy peizo tweeters for 15 bux and wired them into my old car which all it had was 2 3.5" speakers in the dash and that was it. Can you say having no mids and highs? lol

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

lol, my car does have 3.5s in the dash and nothing in the back, so i can say having no highs ans mids lol

 

[80_Cutlass_mn 10+ year member]

Ouch thats a hard way to live. I have done it before and I did NOT like it lol. What do you drive btw?

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

93 chevy cavalier

 

[80_Cutlass_mn 10+ year member]

Oh ok. My old car was a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. It has factory 3.5 dash opening and factory rear 4x10 openings.

 

[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

Oh ok. My old car was a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. It has factory 3.5 dash opening and factory rear 4x10 openings.

Yep, my 89 Cutlass Ciera has 3.5's in the dash and 6x9's in the rear deck supported by a hanging bracket. :thumbsdow