I think Ron found us online by searching for car stereo shops in the Sacramento area, it seems like he had a referral from someone he knew as well.  Anyways, he dropped by the shop to look at getting a car alarm, and maybe a double din indash headunit with LCD touchscreen, navigation, radio, handsfree bluetooth, backup camera.   That grew a bit into replacing speakers, and installing a real amplifier and subwoofer to replace the factory units.

This is something of a custom truck by a builder, somewhere.  The V8 motor is supercharged!  We replaced a bad door solenoid and corrected some cable routing, filled a hole or two, and generally got down to business.  Ron was down for the full disco treatment:  5 channel (but budget concious!) amp by Alpine, a shallow Kenwood subwoofer in a custom box, a double din Kenwood DNX6960 Excelon headunit with touchscreen, Ipod, Garmin navigation, integrated handsfree Bluetooth by Parrot, this is another great budget unit that's packed with quality stuff and friendly to work.  We added door poppers/solenoids to the rear doors of this truck, and also a pair of buttons for front driver/passenger to kick each rear door open right from the console in front yo.

One of the items Carl wanted to address first was the battery box.  The battery had been relocated to the rear of the truck, (the bed), and Carl didn't like the way the battery cable cutouts looked, including around that unfused large gauge-oh yes-battery cable(!) that's noticeably rubbing on the sharp edge of the battery box.  The wire is neither loomed nor is a grommet in place to protect the wire from the sharp metal edge chafing through the insulation.

So this meets our standards now.  Carl worked some split loom tubing around the sharp (!) openings in the aluminum box.  Our other work is the new fuseholder and 4 gauge power wire for the amplifier - loomed, secured, and terminated properly.

So Charlie built this sweet box and even left the storage cubby available on the driver's side (bottom right corner of photo).  This here is the subwoofer enclosure for a Kenwood Excelon shallow 10" subwoofer with a recessed compartment for the Alpine PDX5 amplifier.   'proper air volume and construction of the subwoofer enclosure.  'nice!

So now you say, "what else did you guys do, Rod?"  and I say check out these tweets yo!  Ahem, we installed a nice set of Hertz Hi Energy 6.5" component mids in the doors with matching tweeters in the A pillar.  'once again, this was something that worked very smoothly.  I hadn't anticipated as much depth as we found, saving Ron dollars vs. a buildout of the A pillar to accomodate a tweeter, with paint and finish work involved.   This worked out simply and therefore cost effictively for our bro Ron.  Oh yeah, and Ron gave us all the time we needed to work on his baby. 

Here's a rear shot of the truck while we ran cabling for things like a backup camera (!)  We put lots of dampening mat in the doors and rear wall of this truck, fixed a few different things that weren't quite "sweet" with the truck when we dug into it.

So look at what Tony went and did!  Tony was able to manipulate a picture we took of Ron's truck, darkened the background and loaded it on the Kenwood for the bootup screen.  This is one of the things we really enjoy doing, since it adds kind of a personal touch.  This also allows us to reward customers, you guys who continually put your trust in us, who buy equipment from us and pay us to install it.  It's like earning a living and making friends.  We get to see your reaction when you hear it, and report back to us that you're still enjoying it.  'very nice.

And we get to meet more super cool people like Ron all the time.  Thank you Ron, we feel honored to work on your new ride.  We're always here for questions and want to make sure you're (continually!) happy.  'stop by any time.