Disappointed With New Stereo Install...
Got the boat back today. Kinda unimpressed. For what I paid, I was hoping for more.
The quality of work was kinda shitty and I gotta go back and rework the amp mounting by epoxying something to the inside of the console and then attaching the amp to that. He used Velcro on unfinished fiberglass. Needless to say, that didn't stick.
Then, the way he "wedged" the sub into it's resting place is about as ghetto as it gets and it looks like shit.
The speaker box was too shallow, so he trimmed out the face with a piece of plywood and painted it black so he'd gain the additional 1/2" he needed in order to make the sub fit in the box. Again, this looks like shit. However, he did point it right at the side of the console, so you can't see it. However, I'm wondering if the speaker would sound better if it was pointed back to all the open air and instead of RIGHT UP AGAINST the console?
The whole thing sounds pretty damned shitty unless I open up the console door.
I guess I'm going to have to take the door off, get a router, and route vents all the way down the entire door. That's the only idea I can think of.
To make matters worse, he pretty much fucked up the side of the boat just above the rub rail on the rubber part. It looks like he sawed into the rubber or something in about 7 spots.
He wants me to pay him $140 in extra labor because it took him 5 hours and I paid for the one hour @$65/hr I was quoted. I'll ask him to pay for the repairs for the boat, and for me to go back and unfuck his work...or we can just call it even.
I'm actually pretty pissed about the whole thing. Nearly $1k and I kinda just wish I would have kept what I had in there.
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Originally Posted by Hosscat
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