jmtiseo
The Peanut Gallery
So today I think I got a late birthday gift or an extremely early Christmas Present by picking up some 6x8 Infinity Reference Door Speakers and 6x9's for the deck lid.
Oh boy was I excited. Then I dug into installing them. I knew the rear deck ones were stock, the doors were aftermarket (one blown). So I thought I wouldn't be needing the wire harness to just plug and play.
First obstacle, my car fits in my garage, but not enough room to open the doors all the way.
So I'm balls deep in my car at this point trying to get the rear deck cover off. All 6' 255 lbs balled up in the back seat wreaking havoc. about 20 minutes goes by and I'm like hey LVC has got to know how to do this. Quick search bam we're golden. Started taking the subs out, one of my sockets worked (SAE) on taking one side out but didn't' fit on the other side. I don't have a metric tool set here so I had to go run and pick up a socket set (it's 6mm btw if anyone was wondering). Get back and finally get the woofers out and I'm as happy as all get out.
Unwrapped the new ones and I attempted to drop them in. The mutherfuhrers don't fit! Tried it with a spacer, the screws are too big, screws are not long enough. Tried everything short of bending some things to make them fit to no avail. So I thought welp those are going back. So I leave that alone and start on the doors.
Now remember they don't open all the way so I'm kinda crammed in my back seat at this moment. The door panel is off and I'm ready to yank the old ones out. I do and lo and behold there is no damn wire harness for the plug and play. So I'm thinking well I got a soldering iron, solder, put two and two together and you get 5 somehow. So I finish soldering them in, this is still on the first door mind you, and I test them, and they don't work. Come to find out a weeee piece of the solder touched the basket the speaker sits in.
Long story short. Spend three hours on it tonight and the only thing I accomplished was removing the door panel and rear deck.
Just would spend the extra money to do a nice clean quick and easy install instead of hacking wires and cutting corners. Now I have to drop another $60 to get the bloody harnesses that just so happen to be on backorder.
Needless to say I am furious. A three hour job is now going to span days and/or weeks.
Oh boy was I excited. Then I dug into installing them. I knew the rear deck ones were stock, the doors were aftermarket (one blown). So I thought I wouldn't be needing the wire harness to just plug and play.
First obstacle, my car fits in my garage, but not enough room to open the doors all the way.
So I'm balls deep in my car at this point trying to get the rear deck cover off. All 6' 255 lbs balled up in the back seat wreaking havoc. about 20 minutes goes by and I'm like hey LVC has got to know how to do this. Quick search bam we're golden. Started taking the subs out, one of my sockets worked (SAE) on taking one side out but didn't' fit on the other side. I don't have a metric tool set here so I had to go run and pick up a socket set (it's 6mm btw if anyone was wondering). Get back and finally get the woofers out and I'm as happy as all get out.
Unwrapped the new ones and I attempted to drop them in. The mutherfuhrers don't fit! Tried it with a spacer, the screws are too big, screws are not long enough. Tried everything short of bending some things to make them fit to no avail. So I thought welp those are going back. So I leave that alone and start on the doors.
Now remember they don't open all the way so I'm kinda crammed in my back seat at this moment. The door panel is off and I'm ready to yank the old ones out. I do and lo and behold there is no damn wire harness for the plug and play. So I'm thinking well I got a soldering iron, solder, put two and two together and you get 5 somehow. So I finish soldering them in, this is still on the first door mind you, and I test them, and they don't work. Come to find out a weeee piece of the solder touched the basket the speaker sits in.
Long story short. Spend three hours on it tonight and the only thing I accomplished was removing the door panel and rear deck.
Just would spend the extra money to do a nice clean quick and easy install instead of hacking wires and cutting corners. Now I have to drop another $60 to get the bloody harnesses that just so happen to be on backorder.
Needless to say I am furious. A three hour job is now going to span days and/or weeks.
