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Amp finally came. Bought a refurbished kicker kx550.3.

Came package nicely in a kicker box, looks almost brand new. Opened it and I was stunned. The amp's case was in no way damage except one small scratch that looks it came from a finger nail.

The amp came with all accessories including the bass control remote. They photocopied the manual + the certificate stating the wattage.

I have to say i'm very surprised. Does it work? Not sure yet but by the looks of it should do fine.

I'm getting my speakers + amp installed tommorow if ALL goes well.

Just wanted to let you guys know, refurbished = A++ so far.

Awesome man. Told ya refurbs are fine. Im sure it will work out fine and i cant wait to see install pics!!!!!!!!

So the shop is installing all this? And I'm sure you've very happy, cuz anything audio that shows up at my doorstep makes me very happy :)

Yah, I love when things come in. I'm finding a shop tommorow. The shop I was really obsessed with, really screwed up my friends car, they did the ground wire wrong and somehow that ened up screwing up his transmissions and now my friend is telling me to get away from that shop.

So I'm going to go install my Dad's computer in his office tommorow, get paid $40 for like 15 minutes of work, and then go find a shop to install my amplifer + speakers. I really want to mound the amp under my seat, but it just shows too much, it has to go on back of my seats!

they did the ground wire wrong and somehow that ened up screwing up his transmissions and now my friend is telling me to get away from that shop.

Ehh??? Never heard anything like this. Were did they had the ground wired up to?

I don't know. All I know is my friend took the car to the shop, and the shop said that they screwed up the installation doing the ground wire wrong which somehow interferred with the transmission.

The guy inside doing the sales is a very knowledgable and nice guy, but all the people that seem to be installing in the back are people that barely speak english.

and the shop said that they screwed up the installation doing the ground wire wrong which somehow interferred with the transmission.

I'm no mechanic, but I don't see how that would happen. What kinda car does your friend drive? The ground would be hook up to the chassiy of the car and it has nothing to do with the transmission. And I HIGHLY doubt that these mechanic know anything about CAR AUDIO. I would have to call them wrong on this one.

Yeah, I second that. That makes no sense at all.

Well, a ground wire doesn't have anything to do with car audio as much as it has to do with electricity. I can't honestly say I know anything about transmissions, but I would hope that the mechanics would. I've heard stories of weird things happening when people installed systems (gauges going crazy, etc). I don't know what I expected to accomplish with this post, but there's my .02. lol

what kinda of car did he have? if it did anything it would of spiked his computer and ruined the tranny but i dont think that happened. i think that shop is trying to get a tranny job out of your friend.