Man, every where someone touched this car, it's F'd up!
Went to hook up the cheapo door speakers someone had installed in the door opening. They had pulled the speakers out of the Bose box and screwed in a couple "pyramid100" speakers. Sounds like something that might at least be half decent, right? Nope. Says 100W power but the entire speaker housing is small enough to fit in my palm! The magnet is even smaller so you know that 100W is a lie by at least 90 watts...
Well lets try them at least. Maybe they will do until my good speakers get here. Nope, they're F'd up too. If you push on the cone it will play. So the wires to the voice coil are obviously broken.
Then I look at pulling the 500 lb bose speaker box out of the door since it's just dead weight.
Holy muther-fu****! Who designed this monstrous kludge?!?! I pretty much have to take the entire door apart just to get the housing out! Stupid GM.....stupid, stupid, STUPID GM!
I've never liked the way GM engineers things and every time I own one, I'm constantly reminded that GM can't engineer their way out of a wet paper bag. It's not that Ford doesn't make stupid decisions as well, but GM always seems to be one stupid design after another. Oh well, it is what it is. I'll deal with it to sample the stellar handling hidden in that big, black, fiberglass body.
For now, I'm just going to stick a couple tiny co-axials in the openings. They're leftovers from a Touring bike system install, nothing special. Cheap little 40W jobbies. But they will do for now. My Infinity speakers show up this week so it will just be a remove/replace when the time comes. Then it's wire up the amps and finally have some decent sound.
Oh, the PO's also broke the door panel in half. that's right, I said broken in half. Split from the front to the back, right at the carpet line. Looks like someone removed the screws in the bottom of the panel then reefed it up as hard as they could, probably trying to remove the panel. So I've got to plastic weld the door panel back together now.
This car is lucky that the basic car is still solid, because some PO has really f'd up everything else on this old bird.Broken stuff everywhere, poorly done everything, broken tabs, whatever screw they had lying around jammed in whatever spot they lost the original for, etc. It's been three days of finding one buck-shee fix (and putting it right) after another and all I'm trying to do is install a head unit! I'm begining to wonder how much I'm going to have to fix before the Vette is up to at least my most basic standards. Which would be run right, stop right handle right and not catch on fire!LOL!
As it turns out, seems this old Vette needed me more than I ever could have known......someone who would do things right the first time around and "exorcise" all the PO's sins.