Custom Audio Question..
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Custom Audio Question..
I keep having issues with wires touching behind my custom radio, does anyone else have this problem with lack of space for wiring with thier custom stereos and if so how did you solve it? My car stereo was installed at a shop and evertime i bring it in they tell me that there is virtually no room behind the radio..
Melting Slicks
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what do you all have behind there, I have plenty of room. Mines just a kenwood cd/sirius player though.
If its just wires, i think they need to get back in there with a couple zipties and organize it a little better.
If its just wires, i think they need to get back in there with a couple zipties and organize it a little better.
Melting Slicks
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organization will go a long way towards fixing problems with wires. what do you mean by wires touching together? are things shorting out? blowing fuses, causing distortion etc...if so then you really need to fix up your wiring also. there can't be any exposed copper anywhere, if there is, then you need to fix it! Its sad, but I have seen "professionally" installed stereos done with horrible wiring practices. I've actually found one which had wires twisted together with some poorly placed pieces of electrical tape as an insulator. If you've got stuff like that back there...I'd pull it all out and redo it.
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Man i need to start just learning to do this myself.. Ill prob do a better job then the hacks that claim to be professionals...Basically i got in my car the other day that i keep in storage and i just replaced with the optima yellow and it was dead. It has been sitting for about 2 months heated storage.Anyway I think that the wires are all jammed backe there with electrical tape. This may be causing my subs to work and then all of a sudden they dont.I brought it in to a local radio shop orig cause my tweaters kept cutting out. He pulled the radio/pioneer cd/mp3 player (avg size of all cd players) and taped up some wires but said that there isnt a lot of rood back there and i was on my way..Well now its actin up as described above and i almost think that something wiring related is drwaing off my battery when its not in use cause of the possibility of wires touching..Not sure though cd player seems to be okay..
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Lenny, I know what you mean. I learned to do my first stereo install on the C5 too. I have an eclipse 7501 double din unit and it's very deep so what I did was remove the original HU (head unit) and also the AC controls, and then cut the bracket that was limiting the HU depth. I cut it with a dremel 
It's not pretty, but it works.
It's not pretty, but it works.
Team Owner
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They used electrical tape? WTF?
They wire should be twisted so well you cant pull it apart easily, then soldered, then covered in heat shrink tubing.
butt crimp connectors might be acceptable, but not from a shop.
I've jammed a lot of stuff back there in mine.
The problems you have are completely unacceptable... It's not that friggin hard.
They wire should be twisted so well you cant pull it apart easily, then soldered, then covered in heat shrink tubing.
butt crimp connectors might be acceptable, but not from a shop.
I've jammed a lot of stuff back there in mine.
The problems you have are completely unacceptable... It's not that friggin hard.
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Thanks alot for all your help! im gonna take a lok see here is a pic of my radio and its current setup.. Can someone tell me how to un snap the trim that goes over the raio so i can then pull it out? I have a feeling im not gonna like what i see..Thanks Again!
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Lenny, I know what you mean. I learned to do my first stereo install on the C5 too. I have an eclipse 7501 double din unit and it's very deep so what I did was remove the original HU (head unit) and also the AC controls, and then cut the bracket that was limiting the HU depth. I cut it with a dremel It's not pretty, but it works.
It's not pretty, but it works.
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