Based on the serial number it’s a mac500. What does the endplate say?

I’m seeing some spam on here now and discussion seems quite muted. I think Facebook has taken all of the wind from these sails.

lol yall crack me up. :lol: 3 kids = suburban and a minivan. they must not punish you for owning cars there. that shit here would be 5 grand a year in taxes. I punishment here. I am keeping my rav4 for now but it doesn’t work with 3 kids and a wife. We will do a suburban and minivan eventually but ...

Hmm, interesting. Well I am about ethics and if someone is paying thousands for an install you at a minimum let them know what you “had” to do. He had no explanation when I asked why they did that, other than “the factory wiring is aluminum so we couldn’t solder it”.

I messaged him on another auction he had going. I’ll see if he responds. eBay is so restrictive I’m debating not using going forward.

Yeah, lots of corners were cut. The I insulated wire thing I think you missed the point. They didn’t use butt connectors or solder or any approved method, they stripped it, push the née wire through the strands and then twisted. That’s a method found on Facebook in one of those home craft videos, no...

Ttocs I actually just pulled the system. What I want to do different is change the car. Lol I got the rav4 a year ago. Back the. I had 2 kids with no plans for more. I was a field service engineer on the road with about 35k miles per year. Now I have an office job and I have a 3rd kid. So I need som...

Hey Scott. So during covid I changed careers from a field service engineer fixing hospital lab equipment to my new role as director of clinical engineering at a hospital. As a result, I have seen things that I can’t unsee. I helped move bodies back in January when we had a refrigerated truck a d peo...

I was talking to him on eBay about an old auction. He asked me if I am on here but eBay won’t let me respond. Good old eBay.

I’m not willing to say what’s it’s pertaining to other than it IS PG related.

The factory head unit was not going to work after all. I couldn’t find a decent aftermarket deck that fit the car well so I ended up buying this Chinese unbranded unit. The audio out is actually decent, plus it fully integrates with the car features and it looks factory. Of the unbranded Chinese uni...

I realized that this belongs in installs so I created a new post there…

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And now for my current install... https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(17).MOV https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(19).MOV https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(15).MOV https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(14).MOV

And here is my construction of the subwoofer box...

Here are pics of the shoddy work that I discovered...

Long story short, when I first bought my car my wife told me to just pay to have a shop install my system because my time is more valuable with work, my MBA program, and the kids versus the cost of an install. I went to a reputable shop and went over all of my expectations and what equipment I was b...

That’s looking killer. Can’t wait to see it all done.

The factory head unit was not going to work after all. I couldn’t find a decent aftermarket deck that fit the car well so I ended up buying this Chinese unbranded unit. The audio out is actually decent, plus it fully integrates with the car features and it looks factory. Of the unbranded Chinese uni...

And finally... https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(3).MOV https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(8).HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(7).HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(5).HEIC https://hosting.photobucke...

More... https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(3).jpg https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(12).MOV https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(8).MOV https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(9).MOV https://hosting.photobucket.com/ima...

And now for my current install... https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(17).MOV https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(19).MOV https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(15).MOV https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/gg291/ls1dave/001(14).MOV

And here is my construction of the subwoofer box...

Here are pics of the shoddy work that I discovered...

Long story short, when I first bought my car my wife told me to just pay to have a shop install my system because my time is more valuable with work, my MBA program, and the kids versus the cost of an install. I went to a reputable shop and went over all of my expectations and what equipment I was b...