how to butcher an install 101

the success of the product relies on the quality of the installation.  alarms and remote starts are a chance to do something than the same old deck and speaker installs.  installers should take the time to make each install unique and use it as a chance to improve on the last one.  if you feel you have to pound out one install to start another one... then maybe you should work the schedule book a little better.  even for the best installers, a remote start on most newer vehicles should take 2-3 hours.  sure there are some that can be like 1 to 1.5 hrs like a 99+ silverado, but anything under 2 hours raises some concerns.  take your time, do it right.  having a customer come back for warranty work hurts in numerous ways.  you lose time for new customers, the labor is free, you already did the job once, and it only takes one bad experience for a customer to bad mouth your shop.

A friend ran his power cable up through the floor board of his car...just drilled a hole and presto you can see the ground while, looking down in the car

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and just a couple days a go friend wanted me to take out his old HU that a guy installed for him and replace it with a new one, well I ended up rewiring the entire system...(high schooler trying to learn) ,  oh all the wiring at the harness had barewires at the butt connectors and the rca's, power, and the harness (newer sable) were all ran over the backseats bar,

I wonder after he installed it, if he thought to himself thats the best looking install I have done SO FAR...

I just got done an install in a 92 integra, when it came in to me he hade 4 gauge wire running over his carpet to the back of the car, under the hood he obviously had no connectors so he just took a washer, striped the wire back and kinda shoved it inbetween the washer and the batery and tightened it. He had a nice fuse holder that had no fuse but instead ROLLED UP TINFOIL in place of a fuse. That was cool. Then everything else was somewhat normal for this type of vehicle. All wires over top of carpet, neon hanging everywhere, all hooked up improperly and the deck was wired in all wrong. They thought the deck was defective because the speakers didnt all work and the ones that did sounded like sh*t. He didnt even connect all the speaker leads in the car, he had the dimmer wire hooked up as a speaker wire and a few other wres hooked up which I cant even figure out where they came from or what they did but according to him they were speaker wires. Amzing enough when I wired up the deck properly it worked fine, I wasnt even installing that deck, he had bought another one from my store I was suposed to be putting, I just reinstalled the other one because he was so damn sure it was messed up  I had to prove him wrong. The look on his face was worth the extra work.

In regards to the airbags.  Their mindset was that there is where they would find all the wires they needed.  To them it looked like it contained the wiring for the factory start, windows, etc.   A wire bundle to them wrapped up in bright color tape, must be where the alarm stuff, etc is at.  One of the morons by the way is color blind!

I wish I would have taken my video camera with me, so I could show it to people who think they know it all.