what loud music will do to your car

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 1:21 am

well as most of you prolly know ive got a sound system in my lanos. my radar detector has always bounced from the bass vibrations, but the other day the mounting bracket couldnt take it any more and it finally snapped

a coworker of mine welded it up for me ( it actually broke more after that pic, it was in 2 pieces) but it broke again right next to the welds.

i figured i had to either buy another mounting bracket ( that will eventually brake) or make one myself.
so i chose to make one. i got a piece of stainlesss steel from my work that was 1" x4" and cut it down ground it and bent it

i then attached it to my windshiels as i would if it was rear view mirror (same glue )

well it dont bounce now and i mounted it up high where i always wanted it, im hoping this one lastes me

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz · Wed Jun 07, 2006 1:34 am

Nice

For me, that would have been the opportunity I needed to hard-wire it into the car.

I mean ... have the sensors in the grille up front and put the warning lights in the guage cluster or something cool like that.
Maybe re-do the display so it takes up the space under the radio.

Too bad radar detectors are illegal where I live ... but I still own two! LOL
I had to buy them out of state because they are not even available to buy here.
I can own them, but I can not use them until I leave the state.

As for what a stereo can do to a car ... lol ... I blew the 2 back quarter windows out of my Hyundai Excel hatchback with the stereo when the bass hit really hard!

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 1:38 am

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: blew the 2 back quarter windows out of my Hyundai Excel hatchback with the stereo when the bass hit really hard!

thats my goal, what were you running?

woo · Post by **woo** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:14 am

my rear view mirror fell off the windscreen

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:17 am

that happened to me about 2 months ago, lol

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz · Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:44 am

I was running two 12" Earthquake competition subs in a 5.5 cubic foot ported box, tuned to 34Hz, with each sub getting around 600 watts RMS each.

I was vacuuming broken glass out for days.

lanowoo · Post by **lanowoo** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:49 am

with attaching it into the instrument cluster of your car, lenghten any wires that go from the little light s and make a place right next to your dimmer switch and put the warning speaker next to ypur door chime.

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:53 am

i cant hear it any way so there wouldnt be any need for the speaker, lol

exist3nce · Post by **exist3nce** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:27 pm

I wish radar detectors were legal here too!! How is it that the cops tell if u have one anywyas? I thought the detector would be a passive device that just "listens" for the radar but doesn't interfere with it.

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:32 pm

well they can look and see if you have one, or they actually have radar detector-detectors (mine will detect those too, so its also a radar detector-detector-detector,no joke)

BosnianLanos · Post by **BosnianLanos** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:13 am

daewoomofo wrote:well they can look and see if you have one, or they actually have radar detector-detectors (mine will detect those too, so its also a radar detector-detector-detector,no joke)

True, mine's the same way, cops have a VG-2 device that will detect your radar detector. Good radar detectors will sense the VG-2 signal and also cloak it so that it doesn't register in the police vehicle.

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:18 am

BosnianLanos wrote:
daewoomofo wrote:well they can look and see if you have one, or they actually have radar detector-detectors (mine will detect those too, so its also a radar detector-detector-detector,no joke)
True, mine's the same way, cops have a VG-2 device that will detect your radar detector. Good radar detectors will sense the VG-2 signal and also cloak it so that it doesn't register in the police vehicle.

yep mine has that too (i think)

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:17 pm

well the mount is still working great, but on my way home from work today, the r/d fell off of the mount, the small clip inside that the mounting bracket locks into broke, we will see if super glue works to hold it, i hope so

JohnnyC · Post by **JohnnyC** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:35 pm

Hopefully... if not... you should mount a 'Knight Rider' style lighting system into your grill.... hehe cause that would be wicked! hehe (j/k)... Why not mount the radar detector to the dash in a low profile spot.

Of course I've heard that if your radar detector goes off, you've already been hit and really the only thing it's doing is giving you a signal that you've already been tagged.

(unless newer radar detectors work differently)

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:46 pm

radar detectors let you know when radar or laser is being used. mine has saved me ALOT of money! so the $99 i paid for it was well worth it, one time when i was dropping a friend off a collage (in kalamazoo) i was comming back down I-94 doing about 90 mph (my usuall at the time), my r/d went crazy so i slowed down, and 30 seconds later i watched a cop come out of the road side ditch and pull someone else over. right there it paid for its self. i love these things. and as for mounting it to the dash... it wouldnt be able to get a signal form the rear of the car so i would only have half a r/d, believe me i thought about it