WORST Installs yall have had to fix???(installers)

[hybrid90accord]

well ive had my share of clean up jobs but was wondering if any of you guys have any pics of the bad install clean up job yall have had to fix. i had a civic come to me a few days ago complaining of engine noise and number of other problems from his Pioneer in dash mobile video screen installed at another shop(not naming any names)well this is what i got after i slide out the radio and took out the passanger seat out. he ended up just getting a new radio cause the pioneer was toast. The door triggers were hooked up to the acc on the radio, why i dont know





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[osiriskidd]

my friend bough an old infiniti. i went over to connect a new HU for him and connected all the wires correctly...but nothing would turn on. after a few hours we took it to a pro, and all he wires were seperated deep inside the dash.

[SRCRX]

Wow that is some job to clean up!!

Looks like the Brain got wet??

That Panasonic looks good!!

I've had a few to clean up, But no pics.!!

[fire7882]

I don't work at a shop but a friend had a short in one of his speakers so I removed his door pannel to have a look. All his speakers were installed with sheetrock screws instead of sheet metal screws and the wires were pulled so tight that they came loose and shorted out. I don't understand how some businesses are still opperating.

[RBS]

looks like a bigOle mess of wires, just like my friends newly bought LS swapped EF that i will need to redo lol

[SixSquared]

I pulled the factory radio out of my del Sol to install a Pioneer P8 a few years ago, and my first hint at badness was that the factory radio was held in with zip ties looped through the screw holes. Cut the zipties and pulled out a WAD of wires, car alarm brain, more wires, random splices, and duct tape. Literally a softball size mass.

I had to replace the entire dash wiring harness... the ****tard had given the ignition wiring a similiar treatment... apparently he was trying to install his own car alarm.

Called previous owner, pitched a ROYAL ***** fit, and he cut me a check for $1000 back off the price of the car for all the crap I had to do.

Bought the P8MP AND subs.

[Dracc]

did my boys system.. he attempted to install him self.. had wires taped everywhere with duct tape power to the battery terminal.. but it was on the negative side.. and still got power... dry walled the ground to the back seat.. worst job i ever had to clean up lol

[Grnblur]

anyone ever get a radio thats been connected using those screw on caps for home electrical use I lol every time. and the guy that came in with his sub just sitting in a plastic washtub wired straight to the headunit w/ no amp.

[bware113]

Best buy istaller installed an Alpine deck in my buddies car, but when he rewired the amp instead of installing through the head unit... he was powering it directly through the battery what a f**king idiot!

[drmcivicsi]

dont amps hve to hook up start to the battery for power? ^^^^

[Wurm]

Best buy istaller installed an Alpine deck in my buddies car, but when he rewired the amp instead of installing through the head unit... he was powering it directly through the battery what a f**king idiot!

so he did it the right way

[Dracc]

looks like the best buy installer did what he was trained to do .. reps for him

[SixSquared]

Best buy istaller installed an Alpine deck in my buddies car, but when he rewired the amp instead of installing through the head unit... he was powering it directly through the battery what a f**king idiot!

hahahaha.... you're the idiot. What else is an amp supposed to get power from? The flux capacitor?

[hybrid90accord]

Best buy istaller installed an Alpine deck in my buddies car, but when he rewired the amp instead of installing through the head unit... he was powering it directly through the battery what a f**king idiot!

[drpepper14]

ive had to clean up way too many messes to count...i need to start bringin a camera to work!

Actually had to clean up an amp bypass and radio install in a Lexus GS300 the other day. Guy picked it up wholesale from Carmax and I was installing a JLw7 and 1000/1. Everything was great until I took the radio out and saw that the entire radio harness and eventually the amp bypass had been poorly stripped and twisted together. Most of the connections were bare and a few of them had duct tape on them. Needless to say I had an explanation for the customer as to why he kept blowing fuses and his a/c, radio, dash lights, etc...hadn't been working

[David88vert]

I've had worse - many times over 7 yrs installation on Buford Hwy. Working in Decatur for 3 years was much better.

A friend of mine even had a 78 Camaro that had 3 amps in the trunk - positioned so that the water that leaked through the massive hoes in the trunk would flow around the amps and not get them wet. Scraps of would to keep them in place, bungie cords to hold the boxes in the trunk, and the speakers where put in not with screws - but nails. Plus the biggest mass of spaghetti.....

[secondgencamaro]

I've had worse - many times over 7 yrs installation on Buford Hwy. Working in Decatur for 3 years was much better.

A friend of mine even had a 78 Camaro that had 3 amps in the trunk - positioned so that the water that leaked through the massive hoes in the trunk would flow around the amps and not get them wet. Scraps of would to keep them in place, bungie cords to hold the boxes in the trunk, and the speakers where put in not with screws - but nails. Plus the biggest mass of spaghetti.....

Wow, I thought where I had my **** mounted was ghetto.

[bware113]

so he did it the right way

Well apparently not because we had to re-wire so that it wouldn't drain the battery while the car was off...basically he wired so that it was ALWAYS on not when the radio and accessory came on.

[5thgcelica]

Well apparently not because we had to re-wire so that it wouldn't drain the battery while the car was off...basically he wired so that it was ALWAYS on not when the radio and accessory came on.

so i think what you're saying is he got power to the battery, but then also ran the remote power on wire to the battery as well.

[bware113]

Oh...well yes

[tmzoz]

Best buy istaller installed an Alpine deck in my buddies car, but when he rewired the amp instead of installing through the head unit... he was powering it directly through the battery what a f**king idiot!

WTF!!!


are you kidding?

[TyroneBiggum]

I just installed a panasonic in dash TV. The alpine that I took out was completely installed by twisting the wires and electrical taping them!

'sall clean now

[hybrid90accord]

Well I had another one today at work, this customer came i saying that after he plays his radio past 25 the volume cuts off and the radio cuts off and then comes on again. he said he had a 45x4 amp pushing the speakers well after about 20 mins of inspections i find 10 speakers in the guys car, 4 6x9" speakers in the rear deck 4 3.5" speakers in the front doors(2 in each door), and here is the kicker he has 2 horn tweeters in the grill. So i ask the guy where is the amp pushing the speakers he states " The pioneer radio has a built in 45x4 watts amp" i was like WTF. when you have 10 spekers running off a radio that does 13 watts at 4ohm x4 i could just imagine the ohm load that radio was seeing and im suprised it even came on period and played up to 25 for that matter. Sorry no pics

[Turbo04]

Best one I've seen was when I was installing an older accord came in, had 6x9's in the rear deck with a styrofoam encloser ziptied to one, and a taped cardboard encloser zip tied to the other. I just took pics on my phone and shut the trunk laughing. Good ****. He only came in for a radio install and we were trying to figure out why the rears were not playing....guess we found out some info..

[Z32redondo]

so i think what you're saying is he got power to the battery, but then also ran the remote power on wire to the battery as well.

Ive only heard of that kind of **** when you hook an amp up in your house.

Its funny to see what people do sometimes.

[sonic30101]

i work in circuit city's install bay and i had a customer come up with a jensen indash screen that wouldn't turn on even before he bought the car. so i pull the radio out and whoever installed it didnt use the right dash kit. there was a 2X4 and a rag wedged in the dash to keep the radio from falling into the dash. i replaced some fuses and pressed the power button and the radio turned on, but the starter engaged too. somehow factory illumination with the way they wired it tried to turn the car on when the radio was turned on. so i had to go to the underdash for power and i ran speaker wire to each speaker because i didnt trust any of the wiring in the car after that.

[Z32redondo]

i work in circuit city's install bay and i had a customer come up with a jensen indash screen that wouldn't turn on even before he bought the car. so i pull the radio out and whoever installed it didnt use the right dash kit. there was a 2X4 and a rag wedged in the dash to keep the radio from falling into the dash. i replaced some fuses and pressed the power button and the radio turned on, but the starter engaged too. somehow factory illumination with the way they wired it tried to turn the car on when the radio was turned on. so i had to go to the underdash for power and i ran speaker wire to each speaker because i didnt trust any of the wiring in the car after that.

LOL

[eghonda88]

How about we picked up my g/f's pathfinder from circuit city and the dudes wired her amp up wrong! it sounded like crap because they have the +'s -'s switched on the terminals!!!

[savincent]

^Damn, Circuit City doesn't seem like a good place to go for quality installations. I've never been there before though.

Since we're on the topic though. Heres my story.. I was installing a system in my friend's SRT-4, he just took everything out of his old car and brought it to me. After examining some of the things, just minor things I noticed, but its common laziness to cut back on some coin and effort. Things like not soldering the speaker wires to make a better bond, and such.

Until, I came across one thing. The ground wire. Basically, they had two separate wires, one coming from the amp, and another from the cap. Well they were connected in the middle by stacking them on top of one another, then using three 2" DRYWALL screws to go through both the wires and the frame of the car.

I fixed it up as best as I could since we did it at his house, then I had him come over to my house the following week, so I could redo the whole ground completely.

He paid the "pros" something like $150 to do the install with his provided set up in his Pontiac GTP.

He paid me a $5 burrito from some really good taco stand in the back of a Mexican supermarket to do the install in his SRT-4 with the same provided set up.

The set up in the GTP was causing problems. The set up in the SRT-4 hasn't had a single problem yet for a little over 2 months now.

Me - 1
Pros - 0

[patrick4588]

i work at circuit city in warner robins. you wont have any issues if you bring it there.

[renfrat]

heres a good one for you circuit city hahahahaha hooked up a friends amp worked fine for about 6 months untill i was going to mount it on a piece of carpeted wood that i built for him in a spot on the side of his trunk well removing the amp consisted of the idiot running the power wire under the car ziptied to the bottom or the car i asked him and he said the guy had to read in a book how to run the wires and also the power wire got caught on something after hookup and was loose hanging a few inches from the underneath of the car he asked the guy and he told him that it was in the best spot to run the wire my friend believed him hes an idiot too hahahahaha stupid ppl

[fire7882]

heres a good one for you circuit city hahahahaha hooked up a friends amp worked fine for about 6 months untill i was going to mount it on a piece of carpeted wood that i built for him in a spot on the side of his trunk well removing the amp consisted of the idiot running the power wire under the car ziptied to the bottom or the car i asked him and he said the guy had to read in a book how to run the wires and also the power wire got caught on something after hookup and was loose hanging a few inches from the underneath of the car he asked the guy and he told him that it was in the best spot to run the wire my friend believed him hes an idiot too hahahahaha stupid ppl

There is nothing wrong with running the power wire under the car if it is done properly. Your gas line and break lines are under there and they are slightly more important than a power wire for an amp.

[patrick4588]

omg thats terrible. just a couple weeks ago, a customer brought their car because of problems with their head unit and xm. well the plug in for the xm into the cigarrette lighter wasnt plugged in. they spliced into the radio harness and stuck the positive wire into the tip of the plug and wrapped the ground around the center of it. i took a few pics. it was ridiculous that a business would do this. oh and the whole thing was wrapped into a huge ball of tape. you couldnt even tell what it was until you unwrapped it

[drpepper14]

yeah let's try not to dog on CC in here...i can promise you there are quite of few badass CC install bays in the Atlanta area

Warner Robbins
Town Center
Acworth

and ****...I can't think of anymore haha

I think all the CC employees that posted in here work in the shops in those 3 locations and you can trust we don't **** around (just make sure you ask for an experienced installer to do your ****, cuz we've all got a couple noobs on staff due to the holiday rush)

[Grnblur]

when we hard wire the power for the satelite radios we have to break open the cig plug that comes with it and solder wire onto the circuit board and run that to a power and ground usually behind the radio is easiest because your usually back there already. That is if your not lucky enough to get someone with the sense to spend the extra $30 for the fm direct adapter that comes with a plug so all you have to do is plug the cig lighter plug into it an wire it up, no breaking and soldering to the circuit board and all. It used to be so much easier when all those devices ran on 12v instead of 5 or 6.

[patrick4588]

yeah let's try not to dog on CC in here...i can promise you there are quite of few badass CC install bays in the Atlanta area

Warner Robbins
Town Center
Acworth

and ****...I can't think of anymore haha

I think all the CC employees that posted in here work in the shops in those 3 locations and you can trust we don't **** around (just make sure you ask for an experienced installer to do your ****, cuz we've all got a couple noobs on staff due to the holiday rush)

hey pepper hit me up next time you are down this way.

[drpepper14]

definately man, I normally end up stoppin by that CC when im down that way anyway

[myyellowspec]

yeah let's try not to dog on CC in here...i can promise you there are quite of few badass CC install bays in the Atlanta area

Warner Robbins
Town Center
Acworth

and ****...I can't think of anymore haha

I think all the CC employees that posted in here work in the shops in those 3 locations and you can trust we don't **** around (just make sure you ask for an experienced installer to do your ****, cuz we've all got a couple noobs on staff due to the holiday rush)

Word dude (even if I have fixed a thing or two of yours lolol) I got a job at BB in hiram haha. I'll drop by sometime.

[SOHC MONSTER]

Well damn! I should have taken pics of my car as of today. I decided to wire my 93 civic coupe for some amps for my components and as I am pulling the rear panels, I find phone cable through out the car, 5 different ground wires cut short but still screwed in, and 2 power wires (10 gauge) that were still live but somehow never shorted out. I thought I got a car that was hardly molested but I was sadly mistaken. I pulled out 3 civic lengths of phone cable along with tons of loose connectors and screws. I think anyone who works in the car audio and security field NEEDS TO BE CERTIFIED. Even though it wouldn't help have the dumb ****s who install, at least they would learn what not to do. Its called common sense.

[NewGen33]

There was street glow on the car I bought. I ripped it off.