amatures

some of the installs i have had to fix after the cust let amatures try installing

dodge ram w/ small fire   had to replace lots of fuses

smokin hot grand am  w/ amature amp install

it jumped right out

4ga wire ran to close to the manifold it ended up welding itself there

after i fixid it

now lets see some of the amature installs youve fixed

chucknorris916 wrote:

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did they forget to fuse the power line ha..

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I think they forgot how to drive to their local stereo shop !! Damn Shanequoi !! That's some nasty damage !

Ah yes the old crimson wire syndrome......WHOOPS!!!

All the just to save a little money ended up costing alot

I hope my car dosen't turn out like that.  I installed my amp, capacitor, sub, and processor by myself without really knowing what i was doing.  Everything is going good so far but its only been about a month.  Power line is fused about 8 inches from the battery terminal.  Any amature mistakes i should check for before anything goes wrong? Thanks.

Arturo

Yeah, its basically common sence.  There is nothing difficlult about installing a basic audio system.  The little things like putting a gromet where the power wire goes through the firewall, remembering to use fuses, watching out where you drill, and put screws are the smallest details that can ruin an install or your entire electrical system.

Arturo

"Amateur"

"Common Sense"

I never have a dam camera on me when I get to fix stuff

I fixed a 98ish Ford with a din and 1/2 Pioneer in it with the sub dash all cut out so the new kit wouldnt snap in and with electrical and surgical tape wrapped around the wires

And I have a dash panel apart from a Hilux right now. Customer started to cut it to front mount his radio instead of ISO mounting it properly. One part heat, one part normal staples, get staples red hot and sink them into cut plastic and voila, something for bondo to stick to. Secure the backside of the staples, repaint the dash and all done.

Well, it is one thing for a person to start and attempt to do something on their own, stop and come in for help. Nothing wrong with that at all. However, the beauty job that came in today, by a professional, oooh.....scary.

Let's just drill the door jamb on the new vehicle as we are too lazy too pull out the molex and run the wire through it. Then lets use the black wire as the power wire and hook it to the positive terminal on the battery. Let's also make the sub box all wrong and not listen to what the customer wants. All the filings from drilling the doors were not cleaned up, now we have rust everywhere. Oh, look , the big box installer said that the Eclipse head unit being an 8 volt needs to run direct to the battery......amateur is too good of a word here. Jeff might post up some pics.

Here are the scary pics of the " profesional " installation

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Well, after this customer compared his vehicle (that someone else did) to his brothers vehicle (that we did), he went to all 4 shops in Victoria, BC. Two large big box stores and two indipendents. All stores told him the same thing. They always drill the door jamb because of liability issues regarding warranty on the molex. If the windows stop working or the door locks stop working, then there is no more warranty. Then they told him that because the hard plastic in the molex has been drilled out that the wire will be cut by it. So, I call a big smelly pile of lazy BS to this. If the wire right now is free and coming through a hard plastic grommet as shown in the pic, how on earth can it shaff on a secured molex with a smaller smooth bored hole? The only way for a lock or window to fail is if they had nicked a wire when they were drilling the molex, that is installer error and nothing else. So I am of the opinion here that the installers in all 4 of these stores are just plain lazy and unwilling to do the job properly for the paying customer. No wonder some shops get such a bad name. Unflipping beleivable the things that my friend was told. Needless to say, I am going to make a how to on the proper way to do a molex.

i had a customer bring in an early 90s corrolla because she was seeing sparks in her dash.  i went out too look at her car and smoke was pouring out of it.  i ran into the shop, grabbed a 10mm socket and disconnected the battery.   looked behind the dash and its all a bunch of black burned up wires.

the previous owner of her car had a stereo installed in it, removed the stereo, then sold the car to her.   instead of using the factory harness, he ran speaker wire to the fuse box and tapped into the wrong side of the fuse.  ive seen crap like that before, but this was the first time i had a car on fire at my shop.  scary

I have ran into a similar case.  Friend got a used Civic.  I inspected the hollow space where the would be factory radio would go.  It was just a mass of wires with naked ends all touching each other.  I was going to work with it, but when I went to trace the wires to their door location.  Somewhere along the route of that speaker, guess the cable was too short, they had changed the color and type of wire.

I said screw it, and extracted all old cable and ran new cable everywhere.

I wish I would have upgraded the Big Three, but did not know about it at the time.

I saw a car while taking my break at work the other night that was rather scary.  He actually had a hole drilled just above the front right wheel-well,. with a power cable running out of it.  It ran along the wheel well, just under the door, then over the gas cap cover.  He had apparently filed a wedge in his trunk lid so he could just run the power cable straight down.  It was all held to the car via black electrical tape.

I hope he never goes over 20MPH... Or drives in rain...

I waited through my entire break, hoping I could see who did this, but no luck.  I have my mental image though, so it's alright.