Crazy Requests

I had an individual come in the other day to have me install a new Audiobahn AEQ-7 para eq.  Started to open dash, and all of a sudden it hit me what the problem was.  Not a single amp in the car.  But he insisted that I hook it up to the deck, so that it would work with the deck.  Almost had to give him a country a**-whooping before it was all said and done.  Some peoples kids...

Remember the Heroes.  Let's Roll.

How about the ones that want you to loosing the trunk lid bolts so there trunk will rattle. I have seen this to many times.

I was putting a stereo in a car the other day and when I finished tuning the amps I started hunting the rattles...When I found all the rattles and finished cleaning up the install I got the customer to come back and take a look to make sure he was happy with it...

Inside the car he was Very happy with the way it sounded but he raised Hell because I had fixed the rattles and he insisted that I UNDO all the fixes I had done...In his words "Rattling means that it is loud and I  want everyone to hear them."

I wanted to pound my head into a wall

Francious70 wrote:

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[quote]How about the ones that want you to loosing the trunk lid bolts so there trunk will rattle. I have seen this to many times.

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So there trunk would rattle so that it would sound as though they were really hitting hard.

It's called service with a smile...

If the customer wants me to 'loosen' stuff in his/her car....I will gladly do it, charge them an extra $20, hook-up the 'ol air impact wrench and toss a hanfull of hardware into the woods.

You know the 6 subframe bolts that most FWD cars have? Two will hold it together.

Four engine mounts?....you can do without at least one, maybee another.

Why not remove the upper or lower strut bolts to create some negative camber and give it that 'lowered' look while you're at it? 

Swap in some blown struts/shocks with crooked springs for your 'hydraulics'!

You want your ride to ratttttttle? Baby, I'll make it rattle!

If you want an EQ that powers your subs, sure. Just sign this paper that says 'this installation is authorized with the understanding that this unit is not recomended to power.....subs, no warranty'  $45....pay up!

You want an EQ that simply won't work (no amps) I'll gladly install it and take your money and with a big smile, say, that will work great once you get some amps!

mxxmikexx wrote:

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I had a guy come in that wanted us to look at his car because his sub was no longer working, this is in an older 85ish camaro, car pulls around back, i lift open the hatch to find the rear well of the hatch with about 5 inches of standing water with the amp at the bottom of the water and a small sub enclosure floating as well. how in the hell would you not hear a swishing sound every time you drove the car and not even bother to investigate it yourself?

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Francious70 wrote:

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[quote]How about the ones that want you to loosing the trunk lid bolts so there trunk will rattle. I have seen this to many times.

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I don't understand that either. It's like some people don't care what there system sound like. All they want is for people to hear that they have massive bass in their car.

I hear ya, it's tough to set someone straight and be polite too.

I had a guy bring a tuarus to my yard to have a boss mp3 player installed. The player worked fine, but the car had a blown head gasket and almost got stranded in my yard.

I didn't say anything about that, but I did make it clear that he needed to get his car out of my yard whether it ran or not. He limped home in the car.

I later got a phone call asking how much to install an amp so he could listen to it for a month before his dad bought him a new car...

I told him politely to save his money and wait until he has a new car. Well, I haven't heard from him, so I guess I should've did the install and the uninstall...and then another install....

I'm just glad he didn't bring that car back again, I'm not running a junk yard here.

i have 25 years worth of these tales i could tell...... it's not a request but here's an example of what i deal with every day..... i had a guy come in a month or two ago because his factory CD player isnt playing the discs he recorded... ( we're the AC Delco radio centre for our province so i get all these weirdos) i explained to him that these OEM units are not designed to play burned discs , but that they sometimes might, it's hit and miss... but if he wants to consistently play burned CD's he would have to get a unit specifically designed to play CD/R's etc.

he comes back a week or so later swearing his head off and cursing me out " you f*****g liar, there was nothing wrong with my old radio because i went out and bought a new one that will play burned discs and it still doesnt play" and then proceeds to tell me how his "friends" factory player plays the discs he records on "his" computer

i explain about different recording programs and recording on proper music discs not those cheap 10 for a buck data discs, but this guy is hearing none of it... he's just cursing up a storm, saying that he probably didnt even need to buy a new radio, cause this one does the same as his factory one......

i try my burned test discs and they play fine..... i try his disc in my bench player only to be met with the telltale buzzing, squawking and whistling of digital data.... the moron was burning in MP3 or WMA and expecting that to play in his factory CD player, then goes out a buys a new unit without apparantly ever mentioning to his salesperson whereever he bought it that he recorded in a digital compression format... ( i dont even think he knows what MP3 or WMA is ) and blames ME when it doesnt work.......

when i explain WHY the MP3s aren't playing he storms out calling me an a** and says  "well you should have told me that before "    like i'm psychic or something......

this is why we keep our office beer fridge well stocked.............