corsa-fergie
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i went into my local halfords store asking about different wireing systems on my two subs. im using a mono jbl bass amp. and they tried to tel me my amy isint designed to run two subs its not even powerfull enough to run 1 . so going on the jbl website i find the wireing diagrams to wire up to 4 subs up to it
there lame!!
lol
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R436LHG
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the mono jbl bass amps are a 4 ohm amp but depending on the voltage goin in they can can right down to 1ohm without too much strain being put on it,i would imagine the instriuctions recomend running them parrallel as oppossed to in series,u could run them both parrallel and in series which means u could potentially run 8 subs direct of the amp,but 4 of which will run at 8ohms which is good for the amp but wont give u the bass ud expect
oh i run the ripspeed department of my local halfords by the way lol
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corsa-fergie
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lol
they guy who i spoke to knew fcuk all about what i was talkign about lol
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corsa-sxi
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hopefully ill be working on ripspeed, i knkw fcuk all bout ice either..its a job anyway
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nuttytart1000
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they knew fcuk all about k&n induction kits this morning either told me they didn't do one for my car but it gets here on thurs lol
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R436LHG
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gotta admitt half of them dont know their arse from their elbow,they seem to think takin young guys in off the street and training them up is the way to go,the only problem is they aint got the staff at store level with the knowledge to train them in the first place
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nuttytart1000
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agreed there m8
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Trucido
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yeah i work in halfords and didnt have a clue about anything...just kinda learnt as i went alone n kinda knew more than most anyway, but they do actually take random people with no experience of cars and chuck them on audio / parts and they dont have a clue what their on about. Everything usually gets passed to me and my m8 which is really gay
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corsa-fergie
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didnt mean any offence to u mate, only in my local store, i went back today and the guy tried to make out that jbls info on their site about wireing up subs was incorrect, now who do i believe a halfrods "expert" or jbl ?? lol
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R436LHG
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know wot u mean lol
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mattyc_first_corsa
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monkey's, not even trained monkey's!!
thats wot their like in my local halfords
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cdcool1
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They aren;t trained to give advice, just there to sell
walk into a maccy d's and ask how many calories is in a big mac, or how many weight watchers points is in a chocolate milkshake
if you want specialist advice, go to a specialist ice shop 
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AdiSRI
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i need a week job, might try halfords, i know more about cars than everyone who works at the local ripspeed bit out together lol!
Might try a decent shop too tho as u say cdcool
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Trucido
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yeah i dont exactly know everything but everyone expects you to know everything and we end up blagging quite a few things tbh.
We rang up a few other stores around the country asking for "Elbow Grease" some of them said you mean LG Grease we said no and they were like ummmmm, told them we'd bought it there before and they were like o ummm if you come in then I'm sure we'll have it, blaggin or what.
So we rang round a few more asking for stabilisers and then saying they were for a unicycle coz we kept falling off lmfao!!! they were like yeah im pretty sure we will have some for that, bring it on it and we'll have a proper look!!!! ROFL
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aussiac
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I used to work at halfords had a wicked ripspeed depo, dunno if u no justin from the newbury store but he was one clever mofo, of course as u do u leave and start ure own ice business cos halfords is shat
[Edited on 09-05-2004 by aussiac]
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AdiSRI
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i know of justin,but dont know him, u from newbury then m8? That wud be the one where i wud try to work...
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aussiac
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yer i used to im in sydney two of us left and moved here the other guy dom lives in melbourne, it was justin dom and matt on ripspeed there were all pretty forking good but as i sed they all left cos u know they dont pay there specialists enough and now justin works like a few days in swindon halfords and runs his own ice building company so if ne body wots a forking good set up visit him! they new guys are pretty sound rob of www.ukfiestanetwork.co.uk workd there and a kerion hes sound to so yer mate try work there! watch out for denis if u do he a forking gimp!
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tom_simes
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just like to draw your attention to this thread guys, just to say please don't tar us all with the same brush.
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=259347
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John
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This is another 2 year old thread.
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nixy
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i work on ripspeed 2 but id say i know a fair bit BUT yes they do employ people who dnt know alot. my store is very good at training though
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Martin
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cant be bothered to read all of that. but to be fair, you obviously know nothing about ICE either if you go to Halfrauds to ask.
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puregarage87uk
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hlafords are always wrong. i went in there the other day. if they had an rca aux in lead for an alpine 9853 h/u to conect up the harmen carden ipod thingy. no we dont stock them. and it wont work any way. so after ten mins of trying to explain what part i wanted they stil said they didnt have it. even after i showed them it in a mag some where. so thought ok. walked off over to the audio glas cabinet. took one glance and lo n behold it was staring me right in the face. went to ask them to open the case and shut them all right up.
but as for wireing up ur subs to ur amp. you have to watch out for what the amp can handle e.g ohms and rms etc at each ohm. if you get these wrong or wire it up wrong bang goes ur amp or ur sub.
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PhilC
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I never even tried asking my local halfords, whats the point when there's CS??
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