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Old 12-03-05 | 05:39 AM
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I will post pics from begining to end today,Thank you for all the help Vin78.
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Took car to have it professionaly installed.$85 bucks an hour those jokers get,i hope they choke on it.Dude said 5 hours,F'n unreal man.
Old 12-03-05 | 11:16 AM
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Took car to have it professionaly installed.$85 bucks an hour those jokers get,i hope they choke on it.Dude said 5 hours,F'n unreal man.
That shouldn't take more then 2 hours.
Old 12-03-05 | 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by vin 78
That shouldn't take more then 2 hours.
Yeah they saw me comming i think.I must of had that look of desperation in my eyes.
Old 12-03-05 | 03:54 PM
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Update: Just returned from getting my amp installed,well $450 bucks later,& of course the guy who put it in went home,i turn the volume all the way up,& it sounds like it did before when you turn it 1/4 of the way up.Im so pissed right now,im freakin blowin my exhaust money,& the **** aint even right.Does anyone have any idea what this high priced retard might have done.Here is a clue i think.When turned all the way down you can still hear music comming from the sub.WTF.
Old 12-03-05 | 04:47 PM
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Check if the amp is bridged,
check the gain,
check the bass boost.

You might want to go on to the Audiobahn website and download the owners manual.
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Originally Posted by vin 78
Check if the amp is bridged,
check the gain,
check the bass boost.

You might want to go on to the Audiobahn website and download the owners manual.
Would any of those things make the door speakers not be as loud as they were before.How do i tell if the amp is bridged? Do i want it to be bridged?
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Would any of those things make the door speakers not be as loud as they were before.How do i tell if the amp is bridged? Do i want it to be bridged?
Your door speakers shouldn't sound different, since they should have tapped into the factory sub speaker wires, the rest should have been kept untouched.

Bridging the amp will combine both the left and right channels together (mono), which will at least double the power.
Also it depends on how they wired your sub, it could be wired in any configuration from 1-8 ohms, I'm not too sure what your amp is optimised for, but its probably either 2 or 4 ohms mono.

I would download the manual and bring it to the shop and ask them if they wired it correctly.

Also, they should readjust the amp!

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Originally Posted by vin 78
Your door speakers shouldn't sound different, since they should have tapped into the factory sub speaker wires, the rest should have been kept untouched.

Bridging the amp will combine both the left and right channels together (mono), which will at least double the power.
Also it depends on how they wired your sub, it could be wired in any configuration from 1-8 ohms, I'm not too sure what your amp is optimised for, but its probably either 2 or 4 ohms mono.

I would download the manual and bring it to the shop and ask them if they wired it correctly.
They did something wrong then,because when evertthing was stock it was loud,just not enough base.Now its not loud at all.My amp is a audiobahn A8000T. Put it this way last nite when i mounted the sub,i connected the wires from the factory plug to the sub,& it was louder,& better than it is now with the amp installed.
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damn where in NJ... i would have helped u out with install.
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damn where in NJ... i would have helped u out with install.
I live in trenton. where u at
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hamilton we are neighbors.
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