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If ya don't understand wiring please for the love of god... read a book, learn it right, take your time... otherwise... let someone else do it.

I installed a new stereo in my car today.  When I saw the nest of wires... I went  





Really... they just used a bunch of connectors, and then got lazy enough to twist the wires together.

I couldn't for the life of me figure out why the speakers randomly went in and out, turns out the screw holding in the back seat was screwed INTO one of the wires accidentally.

What a hackjob.

Soldering iron, happy helping of solder, 2 layers of shrink wrap per wire, and taping/bunching the wires together properly and the result was very happy.

I'll get some pictures of it when it's daylight outside.  I even stapled the upholstery back together where the original factory staples had failed near the speaker, so it's nice and tight now.

Finally, the 911 has tunes!

Each segment was wrapped and labeled.  In this case, the 12v constant and 12v ignition wire.  I inspect the wires, all were pliable and the copper was clean, tested for continuity and resistance was fine so I reused the wires on them.  



Here is before the wires were all segmented, just soldered at this point with double wrap on each wire.


Before completely wrapped, but you can see the shrinked and soldered wire on the left (my side) and the original wiring (right side).


Oh sweet... let's install front speakers and not replace the rear speakers.  Who seriously leaves speakers like this in a car?  The new polks next to it.




The super cheapo crappy speakers (red left) and the new JL Audio speaker (right).




And of course, always lay down a matt when you install it, do it right.


More pics once it's daytime, these were taken when it was light outside, I was still working on the stereo at 8:00ish..
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- 1977 Porsche 924 2.0 N/A (Trackday Project)
- 1979 Porsche 924 2.0 N/A (The other daily)
- 1980 Porsche 931 (Daily)
- 1987 Lamborghini Jalpa
- 1999 Ducati 900SS