here is a good one
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Topic: here is a good one
Posted By: speedwayaudio1
Subject: here is a good one
Date Posted: July 16, 2004 at 4:42 AM
This guy I sold a amp to about a month ago comes in and says the amp stopped working. So I said let me take a look at it and see what's wrong. He pulls his car up, and then he pops the hood. The dumb a$$ hooked up the amp under the hood. Never in 20 years have I seen that. It had oil and crap all over it. He wanted me to give him a new amp too. He got pissed when I told him I would not cover the amp. What a Dumb a$$. When I sold it to him I offered to do the install, but he said he could do it. I think maybe I should find another line of work, I'm losing it. lol.:errr:
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Big Dave
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Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: July 16, 2004 at 9:46 AM
Wow, that is damn funny. I just dont even know what to say about that. I am suprised he didnt bolt it threw his hood too
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Posted By: GalpinAudio
Date Posted: July 16, 2004 at 1:12 PM
That's gotta be the funniest damn thing I ever did hear. That even beats the guy who used a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket as a subwoofer enclosure.
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Never Let Those Who Say It Cant Be Done Stand In The Way While You Do It!
Posted By: slicksam
Date Posted: July 16, 2004 at 1:36 PM
what was he trying to do?......power up his air filter? Don't worry....I have seen some sh*t in my life too just laugh......that is all you can do Later
Posted By: archemedes
Date Posted: July 16, 2004 at 2:13 PM
that's great, he must have heard to keep the ground run as short as possible and wanted it close to the battery
Posted By: auex
Date Posted: July 16, 2004 at 3:50 PM
We need pics!!!!
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Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: July 16, 2004 at 3:53 PM
We need names and phone number's of the guy too  ------------- Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
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Posted By: stevdart
Date Posted: July 16, 2004 at 5:30 PM
I'll bet everyone in the shop had to come out and get a look at that! The guy probably didn't understand what everyone was laughing about.
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Posted By: NINsane18
Date Posted: July 16, 2004 at 5:31 PM
I thought you were supposed to install them under the hood cause they are air cooled? j/k How in the world did you not start laughing? That would have been one of those where a digital camera would have been priceless to snap a picture.
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Posted By: 94legend
Date Posted: July 16, 2004 at 8:30 PM
Give the guy a break, He didn't know how to run the wires.
Posted By: defective
Date Posted: July 16, 2004 at 9:56 PM
that's why we have jobs. What a dingbat
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Posted By: speedwayaudio1
Date Posted: July 20, 2004 at 1:17 AM
I didn't get any photos, he was pissed cause I would not cover the amp. so he took off. I told him I'd sell him a new one, but I guess he didn't like the way I called him a dumb a$$. I don't talk to my customers that way, but I call em like i see um.
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Big Dave
Posted By: maglin
Date Posted: July 20, 2004 at 9:04 AM
as for giving the guy a break i'm not sure that thats possible. A fool would know that an amp, probably costing in access of a hundred bucks would be delicate in its electronics... if i spent 100+ on anything, i'd research first, and i can honestly call myself a newbie. My father, who's an electronics engineer for GM is just about coming unglued at me for using inline fuses *finds himself fabricating a hidden fusebox and relay area behind the panel in the driver side of his opel*... He's got a point.. you add enough crap and wham... you'll never know what fuse does what... definately if it all gets stashed behind a dashboard in a car where you have to remove the steering column to clear the dash plate... hehe. I would like to think he wouldn't use his personal computer in the front yard, and run it during a rainstorm... coating it with grease and mud just too rediculous to even envision... but thats essentially what he did here... I suppose he spent so much on the amp, he didn't have the cash left over to buy the 20 or so odd feet of wire to install the thing properly... or perhaps he had an ego... the bottom line? Its Darwin at his Best. *chuckles* ~~Maglin
Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: July 22, 2004 at 6:38 PM
Bwhahaha, good times can be had in this industry. Reminds me of a old old old 55 Chev we were working on, the cars with the huge front quarter panels. So here the installer is putting in an Alpine 8030b car alarm. He hears this chirp chirp sound and thinks that it was someone outside, he continues on. Then he hears it again and looks to see if hooked up the siren yet, nope, not done. WTF? Back to work, chirp chirp, he comes flying out onto the salesfloor spitting fire yelling at moi (wonder why -my BS in BS I guess) and accuses me of hiding around the corner with a battery and a siren. Nope no chance dude, I was selling a cell phone see. Apology accepted, back to work. Chirp chirp. OK WTF is going on , he comes and gets me and I hear the same chirp chirp sound. Well, I'll just have to see what is going on so I decide to help him with the alarm. So here we are working in this huge engine bay putting in the siren and chirp chirp - WTF is going on here. Back to work again and he's running the wires for the hoodpin in the side quarter panel and all of a sudden he rips his arm out of this cavern, jumps back about 4 feet and screams like a little girl. FRO there is something in there - gets the lights, duct tapes it to the broom and shoves it into the hole. Here we find Mr. Hairy Marmot with some huge big teeth - Chirp Chirp.Take car outside, blast with water hose, there goes Mr. Soggy Hairy Marmot. Funniest thing I have seen in years, took 5 years off of the installers age. Nice alarm system, comes pre-installed.
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Posted By: beyma guy
Date Posted: July 22, 2004 at 9:23 PM
that is some funny sh*t i sold a guy a amp and a big one at that it was a us 2000 made by us amps i also sold him some subs and he came back mad as hell because it wouldnt hit i said well lets take a look i poped the hood and there it was 22 guage speaker wire used for power wire he was mad at me wtf some people should just pay us installers to do the job right and not to do it them selfs just my 2 cents
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