If an individual did the install I would say at least they tried. If a shop did it I’d say shame on them. Planning provides best results. Don’t buy good equipment to be poorly installed. I know you get paid, Peter, but I believe it’s more than money. It’s about a love of car audio and pride in what you do. Keep up the great work!

Boy this is a 911 or whatever they call a rescue in England if I have ever seen one. Well done Peter and crew.

Quality install. Poor guy payed twice but at least it’s sorted now.👍thanks for sharing Peter.

The re-do installs are the best...I worked at a "free install" store back 30 years ago and power slam, hot glue no rules was the work they did..needless to say I didn't work there long. I rarely ever get into a car done by another shop that the install is even decent. Installers that have been in business for a decade and just have no clue of even the basics lol

Yet another bang up job. Wish more shops would do things like you. Also great way to show the need for a 3 way set up.

I like the A-pillars, they look great, as always, great work Peter.

Excellent work

those pillars are perfect. They look facotry! its MENTAL!

Another good video peter

The most fool-proof technique in checkin left-right and even polarity if you're at it, can easily be done using a small 1.5v battery. If you wanna do it right, also use a multimeter. Always test before putting everything back together. This car finally got into the right hands for it to receiver the proper treatment!

I learnt alot about the mid bass thank you forr your videoss mangg!! Im gunna have to try it out, i wish i knew of this when i had boughten my component speakers.

Mixed wiring is El classico, i´ve seen mixed wiring/rca/channels on 4-channel amp where gain changes left tweeter/right bass. including reverse polarities.

🇫🇮 Nice Sound System 👍

Nice one peter👍

Amazing what you managed to do given the time. I'm sure you could have given him a new box for the sub. That was certainly tight.

These guys are amazing. Making lemonade with oranges.

Ficou da hora essa coluna no painel👏👏👏

Hey peter , i see you use some Steg speaker and isolate now ! Great factory build , i have the ME650 C II 2 way kit absoluty beautifulll

Excellent solution Boyz! The way they treated the old equipment was terrible! Xx

Like a 5 star 911

Great, I have just bought the same van and have had all these ideas of a ten inch sub in the kicks for the lower mid bass and then a 15 inch in the bulk head kind of like and ib using the cargo storage as the sub box so to speak. So by the sounds of it it ain’t going to get much bass! You’ll have to come with an idea when it comes to you Peter to kit out for me!

Theres nothing wrong with a kenwood headunit if it suits your needs/budget. Just like all other kit it's about making the best of what you have/can afford. Do you for go for a Sony rsx gs9 or shoehorn a full size Cyrus into a dash. Its a world of compromise as we all know. A kenwood headunit is far from the worst thing someone can use and a lot of the newest ones are 24bit dac and sound a lot better than the alpine or equivalent options. I've had nakamichi, alpine , kenwood, mcintosh and they all have their good and and bad points but in today's world, I'd be putting kenwood above alpine for a headunit as alpine certainly aren't proving the extra cost is justified anymore. Dsps have nullified their old advantages. I love my old nakamichi but lack of dab and double din and shit reliability,no usb,no Bluetooth etc etc etc just made it not worth the effort. As we say so many times, install and tuning make the difference

112 or 911 (American) rebuild good job. I wish I still lived in Germany so I could get you to do a build for me😁😭😭.

You should by a whole budget system from Halfords and fit it to a car and when it puts other cars to shame, people will understand the absolute power of a proper install.

nice fix on that job. i do have a question though? what is the orange stuff you used for the pillers? I know what you mean by "milk shake" but am curious the different materials used to make it. thanks for info and again sweet job!

Peter my friend from the other side of the Ocean! How do those Rockford perform as strictly midbass? Rockford has Klippel data showing 7mm of xmax below 10% distortion. That’s very very impressive for a 6.5” - can you comment on that and then also comment on the steel ring on the steg, was that included with the Steg midrange or how did you acquire that steel ring? Thank you!

Nice save! By the way have you ever used a MiniDSP 8x12 v2 with Dirac Live, if so what do you think of the DL room correction optimizations?

would of been nice to get a quick demo of what it sounded like

Nice! What do you think about STEG speakers? Is it good stuff?

I have a sibling to that Kenwood head unit and I hate how long it takes to boot up. I wish they would include "startup time" in the specifications for source units.

Good day Peter. I faced a similar problem with my VW T6 previous version (where factory 8" midbass and 4" free mids are possible to install nearby). I thought I made a mistake in choosing a 6.5" midbass with a low Qtc

I would like to formally congratulate all those car audio shops for giving Peter business so that I can watch his content! I should start writing thank you Letters. 24:51 I'm a little bit perplexed on why a company like Rockford Fosgate would offer components for car audio use made to be mounted in a door space where moisture is a concern , with Hardware rusting after just a short time within a door? I mean even stock speakers don't experience the amount of corrosion that some of these aftermarket speakers are vulnerable too. it just seems a little bit out of place for an $800 component system. I have $25 speakers I purchased almost 20 years ago and it took them a good 12 to 13 years before they showed signs of rust on the metal Grill. yet the spring terminals are still rust-free, and the rest of the enclosure was still nice and black years later after being mounted in the elements. if a $25 speaker can do this years ago why can't a $800 component set from an American company do this? 6:52 I HEARD A HORSE! now about the head unit I understand that it's $1,300 but if they don't even come with a feature set that is even remotely as good as a typical home theater in the box that you can get with speakers for less than $300 with a sub woofer and speakers , it really makes you question the value of some of these head units today. some of these units don't even have a physical CD player inside of them and so they're literally just a tablet with a few buttons added I don't see the value here especially as most of these units don't even have a digital output let alone a HDMI video input or output. yes they are wonderful to operate. but head units of the past had a DVD player , optical outs . and a plethora of audio options. and they didn't sell for nearly as much. they also included playback for formats such as DTS audio, high definition CD, DVD audio, super audio CD, etc etc. why bother installing the onboard amplifier when just about everybody else is going to be using a dedicated processor if they're at this $1,300 level in the first place? either I don't understand the market or everybody has given up since the integrated Android headunits in cars became the de-facto for vehicles manufacturers today. As strange as it is, it's now considered a bargain to get a unit that has a built-in DSP, that also serves as a digital transport mechanism for the audio from your phone. And many times it also integrates into your factory system as well without any adapters needed. in many ways it's a full Turn-Key active system in a box. then of course there's a conversation about all these high-end audio formats with Sony's LDAC being the only wireless Bluetooth bass system that even approaches a 16-bit audio format as far as resolution. regardless, the signal-to-noise ratio of many of these units barely surpass 95 dB S/N ratio. And that's while in a Lab. Real world noise when the car is operating is often significantly less in real world scenarios. as Peter said it's more about the placement of your drivers in a good install rather than purchasing expensive pieces of Kit just to chase an audio ghost you'll never meet. like I said it's a very interesting Marketplace

Hi Peter, you say you have to be realistic with how low a system can play in such a small cabin. I’m planning an install in my new caddy van. The Cab is isolated from the back and is quite a bit smaller than the cab in your video. With the caddy there is space behind the front seats below the floor where the foot well would be if it had rear seats. I was planning to install two 12” IB through the floor. After watching your video I’m wondering if it would be worth the effort or am I just going to be disappointed with the results.

Would you put a midrange into the upper door if you couldn't do a pillar build? I ask, 'cause after looking a lot of your videos i think i want to upgrade my front 2-way system in my 2016 to a 3-way. The EU spec Mustangs do have a 3-way up front from factory with lower door midbass, upper front door midrange and tweeters in the A-pillars. With the 2-way and the correct way to measure i have the dreaded hole around 500Hz as you always point out, therefor i thought about adding a midrange to the system. Problem is i only have a Mosconi D2 100.4 DSP with 4 channels, therefor, before i have the budget to change the amp i would have to go semi active, means both midbass on one of the channels each (channel 3+4 on left and right midbass) and midrange/tweeter with passive crossover on the remaining two channels. From a budget point of view, would it still make sense to go for a 3-way this way and change to fully active later, or wouldn't you do it this way at all?

Bowling? Did you know that the highest levels of fecal matter were found in the finger holes in bowling balls. lol What are your thoughts on using a Zapco AP400.2 for the home hifi? Ive been looking at the home amps in the 3k range and they all seem to made the same with much cheesier parts than car amps. Do the Zapcos provide a 3D holographic sound. with depth and highth to the sound stage?

My Accord head beams are blinking along with the bass, and im getting alternator sound through my tweeters when the stereo is off (gets mute when I turn the stereo on). Any advice? Do I need an extra ground cable from the battery to chassis or would these problems be of other orgin? Its a fresh battery of larger than oem capacity.

So they deaden the tweeter but not the door for the midbass 🤔 It's sad cos the owner can't even get top money for the rockford due to the poor installation, I hope they go back to the shop.

By fully active you mean you are not using the crossovers with the speakers, rather you are wiring all the separate components straitgh to the dsp/amp combo, right?

Hey how can I get the Volkswagen transporter pillow up grade please

Blocking the view isn't an issue in the US because most of the vehicles that are used in competition aren't daily drivers. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Sorry,but i do not like how amps are siting.there is lot of heat. Way better would it be on same location but mounted straight on walls of seat console with some cooler fans.

My worst experience was a local shop not too far away, when i sold the car and removed the stereo, i was so annoyed at what was done, i swore i would never go back, looks like the same shop got hold of this van, incidentally, that same shop is still making shit jobs and videos too, right here on youtube !

so the guy who build a system get destoyed because he used hot glue but i wonder what the owner payed the man for doing it because now he get a 3 way system and a custom pillar build imho you can't compare apple's and oranges builds

so a mid under the dash, under a seat or floor kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q9Kgd9mju-CdkZc.html is oke but in a mid in a door is not ?? sounds to me like you just talk some bullshit ! explain

I am just an amateur, but i can do a hell of a lot better install than that shop he was 🤔

Naaaah... This is rediculas... I'm nowhere close to been in installer, I will get this job done 100 times better