Mark_H
04-07-2008, 11:14 AM
Bored this morning so I thought I'd throw this up here...Sorry it's so long!...
Yesterday I began the task of installing a new JVC CD player that I bought at Wal-Mart(I get 10% off their:)) into the Civic I've been driving. I bought the plug 'n play harness while I was their too. Note: The Civic didn't have a stereo in it when I bought it, I assumed the factory harness etc was un-cut and ready to go. I was wrong, the factory car stereo harness was hacked to living hell and on top of that the damn plug on the antenna cable was broken. The antenna was the main issue, I needed a new plug end to get pressed on somehow. The other wiring mess I could deal with but really didn't want to. I have a Best Buy and Car Toys pretty close by so I set out to see how much either place would charge me to fix the antenna plug.
Best Buy:
The guy in the car Audio department was an idiot. He knew absolutely nothing about my simple question. He had to call the one installer on duty on the phone since the installer was inside the trunk of a car working on an install. Three phone calls later I had my question answered and it would be $18.00+ tax to get the plug fixed and they could "probably" do it that day. Needless to say I left and headed to car toys.
Car Toys(Fort Collins location):
Initially the manager was indeed an idiot when I asked him about the plug. Luckily an installer was walking buy and said "oh yeah, let me take a quick look" He as a younger Dude(I should have got his name) and he came out and said yeah no problem, $15 out the door I can have it done in 5 minutes. He went on to say the mangled wire mess that I was half-way through repairing was a mess and he could take care of it for me for an additional $15. I was ready to say go ahead, since I thought the price was more then fair and worth the reduced aggrivation for me with primitive tools and kind of limited stereo install experience.
Then I realized, the JVC deck I bought was bottom of the barrel and so I asked the guy if I can talk to a salesman about maybe just grabbing a different/better CD player while I was there and returning the JVC to Wal-Mart. He's like "come on back I can help you". Their policy is that any deck over $100.00 gets free install(the Civic doesn't require a dash kit for an extra fee). I found a nice little Kenwood Cd player for a whopping $79.00 that I honestly liked. I asked if he could do the free install if I got that deck and he said sure.
So all said and done I got my antenna cable fixed, mangled harness fixed, Kenwood deck w/ installation for $119 out the door:) I was extremely happy with the deal and felt the guys went out of his way to help me out and hook me up.
Thanks for reading if you made it this far!!!:)
Mark
Yesterday I began the task of installing a new JVC CD player that I bought at Wal-Mart(I get 10% off their:)) into the Civic I've been driving. I bought the plug 'n play harness while I was their too. Note: The Civic didn't have a stereo in it when I bought it, I assumed the factory harness etc was un-cut and ready to go. I was wrong, the factory car stereo harness was hacked to living hell and on top of that the damn plug on the antenna cable was broken. The antenna was the main issue, I needed a new plug end to get pressed on somehow. The other wiring mess I could deal with but really didn't want to. I have a Best Buy and Car Toys pretty close by so I set out to see how much either place would charge me to fix the antenna plug.
Best Buy:
The guy in the car Audio department was an idiot. He knew absolutely nothing about my simple question. He had to call the one installer on duty on the phone since the installer was inside the trunk of a car working on an install. Three phone calls later I had my question answered and it would be $18.00+ tax to get the plug fixed and they could "probably" do it that day. Needless to say I left and headed to car toys.
Car Toys(Fort Collins location):
Initially the manager was indeed an idiot when I asked him about the plug. Luckily an installer was walking buy and said "oh yeah, let me take a quick look" He as a younger Dude(I should have got his name) and he came out and said yeah no problem, $15 out the door I can have it done in 5 minutes. He went on to say the mangled wire mess that I was half-way through repairing was a mess and he could take care of it for me for an additional $15. I was ready to say go ahead, since I thought the price was more then fair and worth the reduced aggrivation for me with primitive tools and kind of limited stereo install experience.
Then I realized, the JVC deck I bought was bottom of the barrel and so I asked the guy if I can talk to a salesman about maybe just grabbing a different/better CD player while I was there and returning the JVC to Wal-Mart. He's like "come on back I can help you". Their policy is that any deck over $100.00 gets free install(the Civic doesn't require a dash kit for an extra fee). I found a nice little Kenwood Cd player for a whopping $79.00 that I honestly liked. I asked if he could do the free install if I got that deck and he said sure.
So all said and done I got my antenna cable fixed, mangled harness fixed, Kenwood deck w/ installation for $119 out the door:) I was extremely happy with the deal and felt the guys went out of his way to help me out and hook me up.
Thanks for reading if you made it this far!!!:)
Mark