Professional Car Stereo Installation

[KeGrO]

don't go to circut city either, now i have "alternator whine", i woud like to get certified too, but i think its an 18 and older thing right? btw does anyone else have whinning speakers? how do you fix'em?

[BLU CIVIC]

Originally posted by Melt
Im starting to wonder if I should even come to the may 10th meet, because the way you always seem to be all up on me when I make a comment, doesnt seem like I will be welcomed and then like last time, people with shittier cars than mine will love to give advice on what "I should do"

:cry:

what does this have to do with the meet i thoiught everyone got that same royal and yet painful treatment....sounds like u've been talkin to Mr. ZC

[91EF3ZC]

Originally posted by KeGrO
don't go to circut city either, now i have "alternator whine", i woud like to get certified too, but i think its an 18 and older thing right? btw does anyone else have whinning speakers? how do you fix'em?

what did you get installed? Is it new equipment or used?

[DarkImportGrey]

Speaker savers (bass blockers) are just the kind of accessory that i was supposed to dupe people into buying. It isn't the kid's fault that is working there, dont' blame them, they get paid diddly shit without commission. Bass blockers have literally a 900% profit margin, so employees get graded better in service if they sell these high profit accessories. these kids just want to keep their jobs man... i didn't keep mine because i sold people what they NEEDED not what best buy wanted them to have.

[91EF3ZC]

Originally posted by DarkImportGrey
Speaker savers (bass blockers) are just the kind of accessory that i was supposed to dupe people into buying. It isn't the kid's fault that is working there, dont' blame them, they get paid diddly shit without commission. Bass blockers have literally a 900% profit margin, so employees get graded better in service if they sell these high profit accessories. these kids just want to keep their jobs man... i didn't keep mine because i sold people what they NEEDED not what best buy wanted them to have.

that's cool man, I wasn't taking any shots at you, I just know how it is over the cause I had a friend that tried to wark there. He got so frustrated cause he was the only one who knew how to do anything. he ended up doing 90% of the work so he quit. any way, sorry.

[Melt]

Originally posted by BLU CIVIC
:cry:

what does this have to do with the meet i thoiught everyone got that same royal and yet painful treatment....sounds like u've been talkin to Mr. ZC

Nothin, its just that she always loves to pick on me

[amy@af]

Originally posted by Melt
Im starting to wonder if I should even come to the may 10th meet, because the way you always seem to be all up on me when I make a comment, doesnt seem like I will be welcomed and then like last time, people with shittier cars than mine will love to give advice on what "I should do"

first off....i don't know who's shittier car you are talking about. the ONLY car that was at my house with less done to it than yours was gregs (no offense greg) and that is subjectable. so you better kill that noise because the only other cars here were mine, mike, & travis. and if that was directed at my car.....then maybe you shouldn't come up because i dare you to come up and call my car rice and shitty to my face. you better wake up from that dream world you are living in. now that i think about it....you really do have some damn nerve. i open my house to you and what do you do.....run your mouth that my car is rice to people behind my back. then you try and tear my car apart and say yours is better in some thread. i let it all go and still extended an invite.....then you start running your mouth again? you can just get over your IBNobodyGivesAFlip, watch out for my DPFI sohc zc, look at my stupid I.Q. robbing pic, never leaves a relevant reply, wannabe west side thug self.

maybe i wouldn't be all up on you if you would quit running your mouth about stuff you have no idea what you are talking about.

who cares if you hooked up and amp and some clear corners? so can i. that is nothing compared to a MECP certified installer. but i don't walk around running my mouth that i can be an installer because i follwed the instructions for a few wiring jobs. to be a certified installer (master installer) requires skills that the avg. person does not have. if you do not comprehend this....then you shouldn't be replying to the thread. notice....all the people who actually helped mentioned the MECP. can you even tell me what MECP stands for? *better go look it up on the net somewhere*

[MyFirst4G]

HEy Mike, is this exam Hard? like i am prety good with the stuff, but i ain't no braniac like you, but if i studied the book and stuff, would it be pretty easy? i mean if i had any questions, i could just ask you....

[Melt]

well that settles it ... imma camp friday, show up saturday, start heading back to ca sat night, camp, and be home sunday. Id not come to the meet all together, but there are quite a few fellow AF members I wanna meet and I dont think its fair to myself or them to not show up simply because you and me dont see eye to eye on anything.

[amy@af]

run some searches with the keyword MECP. there are sites out there with the practice test....free of charge to try. i haven't tried the link civic rush posted.....try that first

basic installer isn't too hard as long as you understand stuff like the ohms law and what not

[GTA]

Originally posted by LadyNRedSi


first off....i don't know who's shittier car you are talking about. the ONLY car that was at my house with less done to it than yours was gregs (no offense greg) and that is subjectable.

Hey! no offense taken...i know my car looks like shit...but i have no reason to paint it yet, and i am currently saving up for the rims i want, so it will look at least a lil better in a couple months.

And i still need to check into the MCEP tests and stuff, gonna check the link Civicrush put right now

[gunnmen01]

who's ohms? and whats his laws got to do with it?...j/k.... but i may take the test for the basic installer part...


gunnmen01

[Dx18704]

explain again what the hell bass blockers are!? srry i am slow

[DarkImportGrey]

bass blockers block frequencies below a certain level, usually 300hz, but they make them in different levels (250hz, 200hz, etc) and in the case of shitty papercone speakers (like OEM speakers on most cars) these could THEORETICALLY make the speaker last longer, but that is debatable since the speaker is so shitty to begin with. on new speakers that are worth their money there should be no problem as long as you don't push too much power to them. For example, the eXcelon 6.5" coaxials in my car can handle pitches down to 20hz, and with the infinite baffle setup on my rear deck they actually sound better and cleaner than most sub setups, they just don't have the kind of power a dedicated subwoofer has, but with my subwoofer off, it still sounds like i've got a couple 8s in the trunk.

but anyways, bass blockers are just shitty. that's all you have to know.

and 91EF3ZC, it's all good dude, i totally understand. there are a lot of people in this business that dont' know what they are talking about. and you can't duplicate the knowledge, experience, and customer service a small one of a kind shop might have in a mega-chain like Best Buy, but there are people out there trying.

[91EF3ZC]

Originally posted by MyFirst4G
HEy Mike, is this exam Hard? like i am prety good with the stuff, but i ain't no braniac like you, but if i studied the book and stuff, would it be pretty easy? i mean if i had any questions, i could just ask you....

I think you would do ok, you just need to study the book. if you have any questions you can always ask me, no problem.