Biggest Car Audio Mistakes?

[Mr. Darkjustice]

At dB Drag Finals in 2008. I bass raced a 140.0 in my qualifying run.

i figured your mistake wouldve been that one night with the bazooka twins

[cdawgstalon]

well, the first H/U I bought was a sony explod. my dad gave me money to buy it after we moved. i got it put in. gave the car to my aunt to use and my cousin stole the dam thing. so my other cousin installed a new one (better then the shop ironically), and then i got my first system and when i got to the shop to listen to it. i had lots of bass just no Frikin music. the POS exploded one me, figure that one out. thats how i ended up with my eclpise H/U. ive had others but buying sony explod for some reason seams to rank first in my book.

[Autruche]

Definitely either when I tried to do a wall in a 20 cube trunk with a couple of subs that needed 3 cubes each. or the time I dropped my only pair of scissors on my cap and welded them shut.

[Joshslvl4xl]

without thinking i hooked the power and ground in the wrong place and popped all of my fuses in the amp

[Boon]

At dB Drag Finals in 2008. I bass raced a 140.0 in my qualifying run.

Ahaha, you legend.

What could you bassrace consistently with that particular vehicle? Mid 40s? Ouch.

(I'm assuming here that you meant to do a 139.9...)

[huh?do-what?]

i hooked an amp up while the tinter was tinting, so he had the key on to roll windows up or down. Wired pos and neg up backwards. Put fuse in under the hood, pow, burned up the amp. Wont do that again.

[01DangerRanger]

when i was installing my headunit fo the first time i had all the speaker wires and all the wires hooked up correctly. i thought i had a good groundwhen puting it into a screw that i thought was to the frame but i was wrong, i spent HOURS trying to find what was wrong and i just couldnt figure it out and i was all stressed out thinkin i broke something then for shits ang giggles i striped the stock harness ground wire and what do you know, it worked.....

[InfiniteRuckus]

I'm recently getting back into mobile audio & my biggest mistake so far (besides punching holes in 6X9's) was a remote wire issue. I ran everything perfectly, hide everything under the carpet, wired everything right, kept it looking real clean. Well I go to turn it on & nothing happened. I traced everything back to make sure it was done right, made sure the terminals were tight, & still wasn't getting any power. Half hour later & I still couldn't figure out why it wouldn't turn on... The power & ground were good, I knew it had to be the remote wire. So I pulled up the trim around the door & there I see my remote wire chopped in half. apparently it slide back out from under the carpet while I was replacing the trim.

[InfiniteRuckus]

here's a recent mistake... i ordered 6 - 0 gauge ring terminal connectors when i needed 8 lol

[UnderLoK]

I was doing a frame ground in my 86 Turbo Coupe (back in 93). I pulled one side of a brace, sanded it down, grounded to that hole, put the bolt back in, and finished the install. When I took off later that night there was a massive bang and then a grinding noise... I had put the bolt in without reconnecting one side of the brace which was dragging and bent to hell...