alcazar

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...........always feks me over.

Yesterday, it was the fitting of a sub. It's a nice, compact unit, made by Alpine.

So..........decided it would fit just under the passenger seat, but sticking out slightly into the rear passenger side footwell, secured by Velcro. Everything OK so far.

Now this particular sub has a remote control box, which I decided to house in the armrest.

Still no probs.

I ran all the wires, and all went OK, despite the wires being overlong, but I was loathe to cut them, so ran them and bundled each with a zip tie. Until I got to the remote cable. It has a telephone type jack. I poked it under the seat, only to find it came out, somehow, between the seat side and the back All that space and somehow it went into a tiny opening

Tried to push/pull it back and it stuck firmly, the jack being wedged BEHIND some part of the seat mech, right up under the seat squab

Ended up having to remove the seat to disentangle it

Anyway, get it all wired, try it and...........nothing. The headunit is as dead as a dodo.

So........remove sub fuse to isolate it, check all fuses, the car one and the one on the rear of the radio: no probs.

I have a spare headunit, so try that: just the same.

After half an hour of messing, I found that the LIVE connector was still inside it's plastic housing, but not making contact It looked good, but wasn't. HOW many times have I given advice to people on here about checking, not just looking?

Pushed it in and away we went. I've now suitably tightened the connector: it won't come out again in a hurry

So, all in all, it's done and it works.

But it took me at LEAST two hours longer than it ought to have done.

One day, I'll do a job and NOTHING will go wrong

CREWJ

At least you sorted it

Bicco

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I repeat this statement everytime it takes me 2 hours to do a 15 minute job..

Myles

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It would have taken longer if you had used that confounded chopsaw!

Coffin Dodger

Story of my life, I've learnt to never say to the missus that something will just take a couple of minutes to do now, it's the kiss of death for any job

alcazar

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Absolutely. I also finish most jobs and look around in amazement at the amount of tools I've got out.

Mind, at least I own tools..........Andy!

Leslie

I have to admit that I don't know what a sub is.

Les

jeffmoses

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Yep, just taken me all morning to change the battery... don't know what previous owner had done but the positive terminal clamp was f***ed had to replace... tool fairies had been and moved everything... all sorted now but a whole morning for a 10min job... typical...

bigsinky

i always knew you were a useless ****

bigsinky

he's the guy that comes on after half time isn't he?

SiPie

Alcazar

Share your pain....

Everytime I go out to service or repar my bike it always takes ages longer than planned normally due to a seized something or another or the wrong feckin part supplied

You'd think I'd learn with age

RobsyUK

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I think the only job that has actually taken the '10 mins love' was the fuel filter on a scooby.. Something always comes up when I trry to tackle something.

DCI Gene Hunt

.......... I post about on Scoobynet

chocolate_o_brian

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Not whilst I'm about

Bugatti

I was just thinking this exact same thing the other day. Happens to us all.

On wednesday I plucked up the courage to change the Cam cover gasket on my e46 330ci. It involves disconnecting a small oil breather pipe at the top of the cover. Gave it a soft tug and nothing, put a bit more strength into it and it came off and snapped . Rang the local dealer up and found its in stock and only £18, bargain I thought. Sent my brother off to collect it while I finished off the cam cover seal.

When he got back I got to replacing this pipe I broke. Took me another 2 hours to get to the lower end of the pipe to release it and replace with new one. I was going through the denial process, where you know how many components you will now need to dismantle to get your hand in there but still try and avoid it .

If I take just the air filter housing out, will I get to it? Ouch, crap I've cut my hand again.

If I disconnect and move this cable out the way that should be enough.... and so on

A 2 hour job took about 5 hours and I got soaked cos as always it had to rain half way through the task.

mart360

So its not just me

did the rear discs on the Saab back in March

you know the score..


Jack up car

unbolt wheel

remove wheel

unscrew caliper

remove caliper and pads

remove disc screw

remove disk

replace disk & screw

clean caliper and piston

replace caliper / pads

replace wheel

remove jack


Book time 1.2 hrs... to do both sides


How long did it take me...

6 sodding hours just to get one wheel off and the disc back on and the caliper ready

Ferking wheel was welded to the disk..

And the same again on the other side!!!!

well pissed off lol


Mart

Leslie

Your wheels dont get taken off very often then.

And I still don't know what a sub is.

Les

alcazar

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For Les: a sub is a sub-woofer, produces the bass that most car systems lack, due to them using small speakers in tiny weird shaped enclosures.

You only need one, since apparently the human ear cannot tell where bass sounds come from like they can for those in the higher registers.

Same as computer speakers: I have two tiny ones, the sub is hidden out of sight, produces quite a good sound

mart360

Not in the 3 years ive had it...

they come off now !!!!


Mart

Leslie

Thanks for that, I understand at last

Les

Leslie

I know the feeling,I had a classic Mini Cooper and the bloke must have done the wheelnuts up with a 3 foot shifter! Had to hammer a smaller socket on to get one of them off!

Les