Would anyone recommend getting stereo equipment installed at Pep Boys?
Would Best Buy or Circuit City be better? The local installers around me
don't really have good reputations. Thanks.

Don

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:29:27 -0500, "Don Joe" wrote:

Would anyone recommend getting stereo equipment installed at Pep Boys?
Would Best Buy or Circuit City be better? The local installers around me
don't really have good reputations. Thanks.

Don

It depends on what you want to have done. If it's a simple "deck and
two" or "deck and four" (i.e. a new head unit and two or four new
speakers in factory locations), then I'd feel okay going to any of the
three you mentioned. I'd probably even trust them to put in an
external amplifier. But don't go to them and start talking about line
drivers, aperiodic membranes, Fiberglas work or anything
out-of-the-ordinary. At best, their eyes will glaze over, and at
worst, they'll accept the challenge and bone it away horribly.

Scott Gardner

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 02:44:17 GMT, (Scott Gardner)
wrote:

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:29:27 -0500, "Don Joe" wrote:

Would anyone recommend getting stereo equipment installed at Pep Boys?
Would Best Buy or Circuit City be better? The local installers around me
don't really have good reputations. Thanks.

Don

It depends on what you want to have done. If it's a simple "deck and
two" or "deck and four" (i.e. a new head unit and two or four new
speakers in factory locations), then I'd feel okay going to any of the
three you mentioned. I'd probably even trust them to put in an
external amplifier. But don't go to them and start talking about line
drivers, aperiodic membranes, Fiberglas work or anything
out-of-the-ordinary. At best, their eyes will glaze over, and at
worst, they'll accept the challenge and bone it away horribly.

Scott Gardner

For speakers, make sure they use the factory locations. For front
speakers make sure they take off the door panel and that they don't
break the clips in the process. For the rear speakers don't let them
mount the speakers from the inside the trunk if they're suppose to be
dropped down from inside the car. They should ask for permission
before any drill or cutting is done to your vehicle to fit speakers.