West Coast Customs

    What do you think about their installs on pimp my ryde?   Do you like what they do ?

  I get mad when people that have nothing to do with the industry say that they are the best at what they do. If you know anything about the industry you know that there are a lot of intallers that will put them to shame.

Ravendarat wrote:

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I bet you guys are just pissed because xibit hasnt show up to "Pimp Your Ride" yet! LOL  I am just kidding. I think the work is probally ok, and you have to remember that since they are getting everything for free, they arent gonna start using focal and quart anytime soon. I had to laugh because in the one show they used Audiobahn and Xibit said something along the lines of "Thats what I got in my ride so you know its good" all I could think of is that some salesman did a damn good job of selling the gear because it sure didnt sell because of its merits. OK now its time to cue everyone who owns audiobahn to come on here and write back how thier stuff is the bomb and how the went to a competion and hit 150 db with their 2 subs running on 3600 watts of mind numbing power while their crome flaming baskets gleam in the sun as if to say look at me, I am not sh*t, in fact I am the opposite of sh*t, I do not suck at all. Whatever. WOW that was kinda more hostile than what I had intended :)

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 You the man !! You tell them who's Boss !

I agree that if the shop I am in had an unlimited budget and enough people to fall in on a job and everyone know what they are doing and concentrate on what they do best and stay outa the other peoples way...I think I could turn out some really phat rides....

On a side note I do no like all the crap they install that is only for show...All the wasted monitors and crap...If its in my car I better be able to get full use outa it...I am a simpler person and do not like all that extra junk they throw in purely for show...

I like my installs simple looking yet complex and clean....I also try to get them to be as functional as possible..

And yes Audiobahn sucks balls....

I'll agree w/ everything everyone's said.  Yeah a gold '89 Mustang (or any other normal production car from 1989) is kinda.... uh "strange" for lack of better words.  But look at the name of the show  "Pimp my ride".  Not "take all this money and do good things to my car", like put in a full JL bass system w/ MB Quart components and a 11 inch touch-screen dvd player, then put on a custom cameleon paint job that is also radar/laser reading resistant (that s#%* is awsome).  But not everyone is as bright (or money efficient) as us guys here.  Oh well.  I'll just keep watching and sigh when I think of how much better I would spend that money.

BTW Audiobahn does suck.

Were do these kids come from?  Are they all from the LA area?  LA does have a high crime rate so if you do get your car "pimped" then the people that watch the show know exactly what you have and how to get it.  I have some security tweaks I've done to my system which will surely fustrate the novice or intermidiate car rober but if someone what's your system they will get it at all cost.

Isn't there a TV show were they upgrade for preformance on spike TV?  Imagine being on both shows. Now that would be awsome if it were free.  Imagine having  a corvette (that's even better).

With the amout of MSRP they put into them we can all build great cars.

I think your thinking of the other show "overhauled" on tlc not spike tv. I like it better than pimp my ride because the stuff that they do is more realistic dont get me wrong but i think i would rather have a new engine for a 89 maxima station wagon rather than have a honda civic body kit and a slide out dj tray in the back. On overhauled they actually replace engines and all that good stuff, i almost passed out when i saw them putting sony xplods in the back of one of the cars they did. i guess its better than audiobahn.

I was thinking of overhauled.  Wasn't there an episode on pimp my ride where the car was so mest up that they desided to give the kid a new Scion square mini-van.

Are Xplods really that bad.  Maybe that 's why my friends think my sound system isn't as good as the ones I've installed for my friends.  I've had these Xplods for the past 2 years and I've blown two pairs do to using a ported box without tunning it. I think I'll upgrade to P3 to hear the difference.

Don’t underestimate 2 good 8 inch subs, that cab is small and it does not take a huge sub to fill it with solid, tight, hit you in the gut bass.

Hurtado roberto is probably right; they will just let it be broken.  What a waste. 

Aside from that, these vehicle are impractical and that just turns me off from the show.  They don’t take into account what most of the people need to do with their automobiles.  Then again, the show is pimp my ride.  However, there is more then one way to skin a cat, errr.. Pimp A Ride.

since I am getting grilled on the previous statement, guess I should clarify myself a little more, lol, what i meant by that was they put more in the bed than they put in the cab.

Not that I underestimate Bazooka in any way, we are an authorized dealer, and i personally think they are great for smaller trucks that have space limitations, such as the ranger on that episode.Thats probably one of the best lines of equipment that I have seen them use.

I just found it kind of funny the fact that they put that in the cab and the 12's in the bed.

LOL.  Yeah i'm w/ chad7n7.  And you also have to think, what is this guy going to do w/ those subs in the bed?  I got this HUGE feeling that he isn't goin to be going to competitions to show it off, so that leaves it for one thing, his personal "enjoyment".  But I guess if it's all given to you at no cost then a guy that has nothing isn't going to complain.  Beggers can't be choosers.

I guess this show is to installers as Orange County Choppers is to me.

I have no problems with these guys or thier business, but the show sucks. They are always building the same bike. I don't care what Pauly is up to and all the family drama....show me some fabrication dammit!

I hung around a local Harley shop a lot when I was younger and this place had all kinds of things going on. Custom machine work, painting, headers, frame stretching...anything you could possibly imagine with a Harley Davidson motorcycle....  Then these clowns at OCC think they can make a show and entertain people with metal working basics....what a joke!

As for WCC, well it's MTV! What would you expect from MTV? It's as entertaining as monster garage to me! I hope these cars do break down as a result of a bad transmission or some other overlooked mechanical flaw. Don't they add security to some of these? Not that that would stop anyone in the L.A area.

Would anyone watch a show called "trade your ragga-muffin car for a newer better running vehicle" ? No, that would be boring to most viewers.

If anything, I think it helps the industry. All this hype gets people into your stores and sells more equipment, gives the installers more to do. It's a worldwide trend, everyone wants thier ride pimped.

They just do stuff like that to make it look cool to the people watching the show. It's not like the people in TV land know what is good quality audio stuff. I just saw and the Home makeover show and for some reason they made a hometheater system with 3 recievers, 4 sony 8" subs and I couldn't count how many surrounds they had all over the walls. I thought wow that looks could but I know that a simple high quailty 5.1 surround system would blow away all those speakers. Of couse the show is sponsered by sears and sears doesn't carry that kind of audio stuff. I bet it's the same way with WCC, they use Audiobhan because audio pays to have their stuff on the show.

 The stuff they put on the Camaro was Alphasonik (the amps and subs) and was installed by a company guy(Aphasonik that is).

 The rest was Power Acoustik. Don't know what the speakers were. But the whole install  looked good for something that was done in a couple of days.

I have learned or come to understand that when a person have a bad experience with a product, they dog it out and jump on the bandwagon for another brand of equipment that is over priced and can suck just as bad.  I have audiobahn all through my ford explorer (speakers) but not the amps and "what nots" and it sounds pretty damn good.  Hell, I have been able to walk over a guy that had 2 RF 15's with my 2 10" subs (to add, I don't think it hits 140 db's).  It's my vacation vehicle for the family when we go on long trips.  And I did have good sound Q, too.  Then, there is another guy with the Kicker sq 12's that was going to blow it's spiders as it could barely keep up.  I am not trying to say Audiobahn is "the boss" but it's like every other equipment out there, sometimes you can get one of the good one they made and someone else can pick up the crap.  It's no different than cars, the pinto is the best gas saver ever made besides the festiva for the price you pay.  I am a Eathquake, Clarion (Pro audio sterieos) and Lanzar (before they committed suicide and joined with pyle)  guy but none of it is avail where I am in ga so I have to do the best i can with what i can get locally.    I still have the 3 earthquake amps since I brought them in 1993 and they all still work except one which goes into protect last week when the bass hits hard.  That is what makes me like earthquake and I know someone else could have brought the same things and they think it's crap cause they got the $h!ty one off of the shelf.  I do agree that some of audiobahns stuff is crap but like everything else, you can have bad experiences with everything that's overpriced.  I just maybe the only person who good a good set of speakers from them, I'll accept that possibility along with the fact that I have  been satisfied with them so far and it's been almost 3 yrs without having to replace one speaker yet.  this is just my opinion and sorry it's this long for me to get my point across.

Hey I think you can get your own louder system, it doesn´t matter if it´s overpriced brand, just take the best thing that fits on your system and combine it with others that include the parameters needed.

About pimp my ride, it´s only a T.V. show, if you see, JL, Nakamichi, eclipse, or alpine need to sell more, then you would see tv. spots or sound upgrades at that tv show, the person who knows about sound, takes that stuff, and "the new guys" on the street, buys the audiobahns, sonys and clarion stuff that they see at the show. they only want to sell...

boxmaker....

I am in albany, ga.