OMG Circuit City Rant
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yup, i used to work for both circuit city AND best buy mobile installation, and you're absolutely right for wanting to do it yourself, but damn man, i don't know if you're gonna be able to get anything from them.
they are going to throw liability issues at you, such as the fact that they can't guarantee that it wasn't something you did during the installation that caused the short that fried your speakers.
WTF happened anyway? i can't think of anything they COULD do to make it fry the speakers aside from screwing up the leads to the speaker wires, (e.g., they wired two positives up to a single speaker, or two negatives to a single speaker)
what did YOU do? did you just plug in the cd player to the wiring harness? i'm not saying its something you did, i'm just trying to figure out how this happened so i can help you stick it to the man and get some new speakers.
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check these out, they carry them at circuit city, and are decent speakers, i've heard them in my buddies rex and was planning to get them in my legacy before i got the boston accoustics
good luck man!
yup, i used to work for both circuit city AND best buy mobile installation, and you're absolutely right for wanting to do it yourself, but damn man, i don't know if you're gonna be able to get anything from them.
they are going to throw liability issues at you, such as the fact that they can't guarantee that it wasn't something you did during the installation that caused the short that fried your speakers.
WTF happened anyway? i can't think of anything they COULD do to make it fry the speakers aside from screwing up the leads to the speaker wires, (e.g., they wired two positives up to a single speaker, or two negatives to a single speaker)
what did YOU do? did you just plug in the cd player to the wiring harness? i'm not saying its something you did, i'm just trying to figure out how this happened so i can help you stick it to the man and get some new speakers.
KKR 05KS62
check these out, they carry them at circuit city, and are decent speakers, i've heard them in my buddies rex and was planning to get them in my legacy before i got the boston accoustics
good luck man!
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i don't understand. you didn't have them use a wiring harness. you had them cut the universal plug off and hard-wired the jvc plug. then when you got home it went 4th of july style on you.
if thats right, then they did exactly as i said, when connecting the wires, the kid doing it fucked up and connected two positives to a single speaker, instead of a positive and negative lead, and this caused the speakers to blow and short out.
you're going to need new wiring in addition to new speakers just so you know.... that wire is shorted out and most likely the insulation is burned through. even if not, its a chance you don't want to take, especially if you're running an amplified stereo... fires aren't fun going 90 over the skyway
good luck man, make them pay for it, install it AND give you a warranty, 3 year is standard and should be easy for the manager to give for free, just need to ask
if thats right, then they did exactly as i said, when connecting the wires, the kid doing it fucked up and connected two positives to a single speaker, instead of a positive and negative lead, and this caused the speakers to blow and short out.
you're going to need new wiring in addition to new speakers just so you know.... that wire is shorted out and most likely the insulation is burned through. even if not, its a chance you don't want to take, especially if you're running an amplified stereo... fires aren't fun going 90 over the skyway
good luck man, make them pay for it, install it AND give you a warranty, 3 year is standard and should be easy for the manager to give for free, just need to ask
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i don't understand. you didn't have them use a wiring harness. you had them cut the universal plug off and hard-wired the jvc plug. then when you got home it went 4th of july style on you.
if thats right, then they did exactly as i said, when connecting the wires, the kid doing it fucked up and connected two positives to a single speaker, instead of a positive and negative lead, and this caused the speakers to blow and short out.
you're going to need new wiring in addition to new speakers just so you know.... that wire is shorted out and most likely the insulation is burned through. even if not, its a chance you don't want to take, especially if you're running an amplified stereo... fires aren't fun going 90 over the skyway
good luck man, make them pay for it, install it AND give you a warranty, 3 year is standard and should be easy for the manager to give for free, just need to ask
if thats right, then they did exactly as i said, when connecting the wires, the kid doing it fucked up and connected two positives to a single speaker, instead of a positive and negative lead, and this caused the speakers to blow and short out.
you're going to need new wiring in addition to new speakers just so you know.... that wire is shorted out and most likely the insulation is burned through. even if not, its a chance you don't want to take, especially if you're running an amplified stereo... fires aren't fun going 90 over the skyway
good luck man, make them pay for it, install it AND give you a warranty, 3 year is standard and should be easy for the manager to give for free, just need to ask
Update: I called them and they tried to tell me they hooked up a JVC cd player and it worked fine for them. So the battle begins.
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your car did have a harness at some point unless you bought it used and the guy before you cut it off. the plug that coupled all the wires from your car and allowed it to plug into your OEM cd player is the harness i'm talking about.
there's no way, from what you're saying, that there is anything you could have done to have caused that to happen.
don't bother talking with the manager anymore, unless you've got him by the short and curlies, he is going to try to stonewall you. go to corporate and get them to contact him. get him by the short and curlies
and then yank like you're a 13 year old who just found his dad's stash of porns
there's no way, from what you're saying, that there is anything you could have done to have caused that to happen.
don't bother talking with the manager anymore, unless you've got him by the short and curlies, he is going to try to stonewall you. go to corporate and get them to contact him. get him by the short and curlies
and then yank like you're a 13 year old who just found his dad's stash of porns
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your car did have a harness at some point unless you bought it used and the guy before you cut it off. the plug that coupled all the wires from your car and allowed it to plug into your OEM cd player is the harness i'm talking about.
there's no way, from what you're saying, that there is anything you could have done to have caused that to happen.
don't bother talking with the manager anymore, unless you've got him by the short and curlies, he is going to try to stonewall you. go to corporate and get them to contact him. get him by the short and curlies and then yank like you're a 13 year old who just found his dad's stash of porns
there's no way, from what you're saying, that there is anything you could have done to have caused that to happen.
don't bother talking with the manager anymore, unless you've got him by the short and curlies, he is going to try to stonewall you. go to corporate and get them to contact him. get him by the short and curlies
and then yank like you're a 13 year old who just found his dad's stash of porns
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... Never ever ever get anything installed by BB or CC.... either do it yourself, someone who really knows (like people in audio forum) or a reputable audio shop T&J Elites (in oldsmar.)
Seriously, the first time i ever got something installed on my car was a new headunit from circuitcity. Got it all installed and it was the most ghetto ass connections i had ever seen, my power antenna was hooked up completely wrong and it would move up and down all the time and my speakers sounded like shit. After about 3 months i finally went crazy and did it all myself. From that moment on i did pretty much all the stereo work in my car myself.
I also found relatives and friends who had similar problems, even a friend's girlfriend had her whole dash in her accord melt as well!
Good luck with the claim.
Seriously, the first time i ever got something installed on my car was a new headunit from circuitcity. Got it all installed and it was the most ghetto ass connections i had ever seen, my power antenna was hooked up completely wrong and it would move up and down all the time and my speakers sounded like shit. After about 3 months i finally went crazy and did it all myself. From that moment on i did pretty much all the stereo work in my car myself.
I also found relatives and friends who had similar problems, even a friend's girlfriend had her whole dash in her accord melt as well!
Good luck with the claim.
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But he did do a pretty good job in making things up to say to cover his ass.
