I went shopping for a gas bottle for our bbq…I wander around the store, browsing.
I come across their car audio section, and eyeball some speakers that might be the right size. I don’t know.
They might be.
You see I’d decided to not spend money on crap like this for my car until it was fully paid for.
However my rear speakers really do suck and seem to be the originals which make them 17 years old.
The speakers that I’m looking at are $70 and seem to be the right size. So I buy them, how hard can it be ?
Should be a few screws,two wires right and party time ?
Wrong…
Bolts and screws that took ages to remove.
Screws that fell down into the car and had to be removed with magnets.
wires that fell off after everything was bolted back in.
The fun part was when i realized that one of the speakers (still) did not work.
Either a broken wire or a loose connection at the head unit I decided after jiggling stuff and receiving some signal.
So now I need to get to the head unit and check the cable.
To do that I needed to:
Remove my center console. Which involved releasing the harking and hand break on my non level driveway. – Fun.
Removing my ashtray and ashtray holder – Failed.
Could not remove one of the screws.
At this point I decided that I has not going to do this crap twice and that it was time to urge to the magical world of cds.
So I went shopping and bought a mp3 head unit, after all I wouldn’t want to do that shit twice.
Speakers $70
Mp3 Deck $230
So $300 and an afternoon later I’m still screwed, naturally I got home and was surprised to find that I still could not remove the screw dispite having spent more money.
So I call the Jew for help.
He promises to bring better tools and come the next day.
Cool.
Jew arrives. Late.
Jew forgot his tools.
Jew tried for awhile and we decide that my screwdrivers are gay.
So we go shopping.
Tools – $50
The jew tries for awhile and fails.
Even takes the glove box out to try and get in there. Still fails.
Speakers $70
Mp3 Deck $230
Tools – $50
I decide that the mp3 deck can wait, I’ll pay someone to install it and get new front speakers at the same time. Fuck it.
We try for another 40 minutes or so to get the wire in place in the existing head unit (My 1988 fm tapedeck) and confirm that it is indeed loose back there.
The jew zapped himself, hanged his head, then we gave up. – God it was funny.
I’m paying $60 to have it installed on Tuesday.
Taking me to $360, until then I’m driving around with three speakers playing classic rock while muttering bad things about ashtrays and honda to myself.
*Update*
I arrived at the car place, 33 degree day, it took them almost two hours which i spent watching daytime tv and wishing i had change for the drink machine.
Eventually they finished and I drove home. Fascinating stuff.
The next day I stripped the face off my old tape deck and using a hot glue gun attached all of the controls in a convincing manner.
I made a fake face for when I park.
A few days later I decided that I may as well replace my front speakers, I went shopping to the local audio place and bought random speakers at a discount price.
I went to install them, removed the door trim, removed the speaker, and found that they were too deep.
They are in my back yard now. I fucking hate cars.
