What did you do with your Thunderbird Today?

Wired in the connector for my new headunit. Not my best work, this is the sloppiest stereo install I’ve ever done but it’s 30° and I’m literally not sweating the details 🥶IMG_8174.jpeg

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Unless you start completely over, it always looks worse each time you redo it.
I've put 5 stereo's in a car over several years that wanted cheapest install possible. Your ocd would have had you replacing the dash harness the last time, lol.
 
Grog6 said:
Unless you start completely over, it always looks worse each time you redo it.
I've put 5 stereo's in a car over several years that wanted cheapest install possible. Your ocd would have had you replacing the dash harness the last time, lol.
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It would lol. Basically what is driving me nuts is is I would have cut the slices back into the factory wires but because the new head is shallower since it has no CD player it needs a longer harness and rather than measuring I just left like 2” of the spliced wires from the Alpine pigtail to compensate. The plus side is the wire colors all line up but I hate myself for doing it.
 
what did you put in? decks have changed a bunch since I bought one.
I've been working on buying one from Kidd, but I've had more probs mailing dude 10 bucks it's insane. I've bought envelopes, stamps...
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I still prefer knobs I can feel for, without looking. :) Looks good, and the phone integration seems cool. I'm betting the alpine sounds better tho, esp. the high freq. Which I wouldn't notice with my hearing,lol.
 
Grog6 said:
I still prefer knobs I can feel for, without looking. :) Looks good, and the phone integration seems cool. I'm betting the alpine sounds better tho, esp. the high freq. Which I wouldn't notice with my hearing,lol.
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I’m not a car audiophile but that’s definitely on my mind and if the sound sucks I could always add an amp.

I prefer knobs but the alpine(and most other aftermarket head units) isn’t any better, you need to click and scroll through menus to find anything you’re looking for which is equally distracting. This might actually be an improvement
 
GPS antenna installed. Like a glove wedged between the defrost duct and autolamp sensor

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The thing I hate the most about car audio is the varying frequency and intensity of the background noise and then the harmonics imposed by the speakers as you need to increase volume to overcome the noise.

I prefer my home theater, or a good set of open-back cans. :cool: 🎧
 
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The thing I hate the most about car audio is the varying frequency and intensity of the noise and harmonics imposed by the speakers as you need to increase volume to overcome the noise.

I prefer my home theater, or a good set of open-back cans. :cool: 🎧
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That’s why I never cared to build a real system, as long as I can hear my tunes among the tire roar and exhaust it’s good enough for me, I don’t need a home theatre experience in a rolling death missile 🤣
 
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