ok so I bring my car to a audio shop so they cna take my door panle off and check why one of my speakers was not working correctly............after I drive away I notice that the door they had taken off is rattling and shaking, and that my sound quality has gone to crap (sounds like I have no bass fromt he subs anymore) I am going back to the shop tomorrow, but what could they have possibly done to ruin my sound quality by this much?
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first problem letting someone else touch it, learn to do it yourself then you know where to look for the problem, im not being an ass just trying to suggest some help
Is the shop's installers MECP certified? If they are not find another shop.
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Speaker could be out of phase, that kills bass I believe. They may not have tightened the speaker in enough, making it rattle. If the door itself is rattling, they must not have secured it back into place properly.
There's a lot of possibilities.
Ya. They probably lost a lot of your clips to the door and never put the back on. And maybe they swapped out that speaker with a crapy one.
They could have put a sony in
im assuming you did not listen to the system when you were at the shop to make sure the job was done right? that was your first mistake. second mistake would be not checking out the store before hand to find out wether they know what they are doing or not. its hard to find a good audio shop. and even a shop that has mecp qualified installers doesnt nessicarily mean you will get a good install. do some research next time before you drop your car off to a stranger.
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thats the thing, I have used this shop before and always liked them.......the odd thing is that my speakers worked when it was in the shop and i watched them do the work, i did mistakenly not watch them this time.
the problem is that my front left speaker, 4 year old 4x6 infinity kappa, either doesnt sound as loud as the front right speaker, doesn't seem to work at all and at times it seems as loud as the front right speaker.
Do you have any idea what could do that......are the speakers jsut old or seized by moisture?
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Mennitti wrote:Is the shop's installers MECP certified?
A cow could get an MECP certification. They don't mean much.
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Cavi in KC wrote:Mennitti wrote:Is the shop's installers MECP certified?
A cow could get an MECP certification. They don't mean much.
So where is yours?
Maybe your 4 year old speaker took a crap.
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James (ROLN19S) (JuicyJ) wrote:
So where is yours?
The same place it will always be, non existent. Never had a desire to get it. What, would I have done with it? Put it on the wall, point to it, and say, "look kids, I took a test and passed, that means you should buy something from me."
You want to send me $50.00 to take the basic, go right ahead.
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damn mike your sounddomain page don't work.
but i have never seen the point in a mecp cert. i know most of the installers in all the top stores in MD and VA and i don't think any of them have a mecp or even look for one.
LMAO Mark, I haven't even looked, much less updated that thing in ages. I'm sure SD just deleted it. Hell, don't have anything worth putting up there anymore anyways. Sold everything from my car.
Speaking of which, need to change my sig.
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even a shop that has mecp qualified installers doesnt nessicarily mean you will get a good install.
Absolutely!
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A cow could get an MECP certification. They don't mean much.
Obviously you never attempted to take the test, because they are not easy.
Basically it comes down to how seriously the installer takes their profession. I think every installer should have to get certified at least once, because they are far more likely to do a quality job than the shade tree hack down the street. You wouldn't take your car to a mechanic who wasn't A.S.E. certified, why take the chance of going to an installer not MECP certified and have something fried or panels broken? I fix hacked up cars on an almost weekly basis from places that legally should not be permitted to operate.
But to answer the question, the only way you are going to know what is wrong is to take the door off, the speaker out, and look things over.
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i somewhat agree menetti, but a mecp doesnt mean the person has any technical skill whatsoever it just means they can take a test. i can take a test to drive a car but that doesnt nessicarily mean i have the motor skills to go racing. to me the best experience an audio installer can have is exp in installing audio. if you can get a car to win at any of the world finals id take that anyday over the 16 year old at best buy with a mecp and shaking hands taking out his first door panel. its all relative.
as for your speakers narco, its hard to say without being there, i'd just go thru all your radio setting to make sure something isnt goofy, then i'd pull the door panel and swap speakers, if the problem persists you know the speaker is fine and its the audio lead going to it that is bringing in the problem. if the problem goes away you know that the speaker is the culprit, but this is something that the shop should be doing.
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Mennitti wrote:
Obviously you never attempted to take the test, because they are not easy.
To someone in the field, it should be easy. If it's not, then you have some stuff to learn. It's kind of like a ServSafe certification in the restaurant industry. If you have been around it, you learn it.
Mennitti wrote:
I think every installer should have to get certified at least once, because they are far more likely to do a quality job than the shade tree hack down the street.
So you'd rather take your car to Best Buy then to a local shop that has won SPL and SQ first place trophy's at USACi and Drag finals? That scares me a little bit. Like Jason said, it's all relative.
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why take the chance of going to an installer not MECP certified and have something fried or panels broken?
How is having a MECP certification going to teach someone how to not break panels in a 2003 Mercedes? It's not. How is having a MECP going to teach someone how to not fry a head unit in that same Mercedes? It's not. Getting my point here?
But I'm done, (well I should be anyways), I made this post go WAY off topic.
Mike Roth
thanks for the help guys.........the audio place did right by me and re-wired everything..................it turns outt hat my 4 year old speakers are in fact......taking a dump
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I wouldn't even let Best Buy installers look at my car. I had a guy I autocrossed with who had an amp installed by them. The mounting screws were in sideways, and once we straightened everything out we had to redrill pilot holes to hold the amp securely. This was on a brand new Celica GT-S.
Never pay bestbuy to do what a 4 year old with a box of tools can do just as sufficiently.
Glad to hear the shop straightened stuff out. Good customer service is awesome.
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