Mod Day in Valrico--install your Christmas gifts on Dec 26th. I'll be installing Sara's new Alpine head unit and Alpine component speakers--I also bought the wire kit from Lucid. I've been reading all the posts, and have a good idea what to do, but if anyone with some experience wants to come over and make suggestions......please come--I'm thinking about 10AM. PM me for directions if you want to help--if McGyver was to come, I'm sure we would have a turn out...

 

How about doing it later. I'm out of town till the 28th

 

It may come to that.....depends on turn out, and how well it goes for me.
Also how long Sara can wait--which I expect will be not too long--can't blame her.

 

Posting for Joe.

 

Sweet Jesus thats a mess. I'm down for a audio day now. Let me know with a weeks notice

 

I know this looks like a big mess--but not as bad as it looks, since all but about 3 wires total are not color coded perferctly. I purchased the wire harness, relay and SWI-ALP interface from Lucid. I thought the information was very good except for wiring up the relay--not clear, but now we know it goes between the interrupt wire on the Alpine deck and the 12V mute power wire on the harness. The SWI-ALP interface for the dash controls was easy to wire up--just 3 wires--power, ground, and one wire (white) to the harness dash control wire. Programming the thing was not so clear, but we got through it--thanks to Jvrabel!

One warning--don't leave the speaker wires too long--they can get caught in the window mechanism and get yanked right off--how do we know........? One other thing you may want to know--the factory crossovers did not seem to work right with the new Alpine component speakers--so the crossovers that came with the new speakers is now installed--much much better sound. If I had to do this job all over again, I think it would only take maybe 2 hours!

 

More importantly, how does Sara like it?

 

Sara is thrilled--finding excuses just to go driving--she is cranking it up now without distortion. It is really much better with the top down now.

 

Hey Joe-
Are you guys going on the group drive on the 14th?

 

Glad to hear it went smoooooooooth