CAR AUDIO DESIGN — Local services in Springfield Township

EDIT: This place is a joke. My review says it was posted 5 years ago when it was posted 9 years ago. The response from the owner asking me to call and discuss this further is a joke. I called to discuss this situation but he had no idea what I was talking about cuz those responses are auto generated by a stranger.

OMG where do I start. The experience we had with this business was so very terrible! We paid over $600 for a remote start and amp install. First off, the professional installer called off sick the day of my install. The install of a remote start and an amp took 4 hours (was quoted 2 1/2 hours) come to find out it was the owner who did the very unprofessional install and provided very unprofessional customer service. The remote start would not start the car (had to disconnect the battery), remote would not start until Buick unlock button was used, tapped into the heater blower motor (heater would now only work on high) bypass function kept the car from starting normally. Tweeters were hot glued to the dash, who on earth would want that done? Tweeters were wired backwards, tweeter wiring was ran thru the fusebox causing the wires to be pinched.Tweeters were ran to the head unit and not the amp . Nor did they have capacitors to block low frequencies. I paid for 8 gauge wiring for the amp and he installed 14 gauge which is substandard. Amp was not installed under the seat as we requested, it was screwed to the subwoofer in the trunk. Amp was not properly grounded. The amp cable running along the dashboard was spliced with electrical tape. The wiring in the trunk was VERY sloppy. The fader did not fade. Dash was not reassembled properly, missing fasteners. Driver side kick panel is now hanging, as well as the valet switch. I was not offered the rear defroster option nor any other options. The trunk strap was broken off and just laying in the trunk. It was intact before they did any work in or around the trunk area.

My husband was more than capable of doing this work himself but I wanted to pamper him and give him a Valentine's/Anniversary present and have the work done by a "professional" and I use that term loosely. When we went back two days after the install we asked to speak with the owner and found out that he was the one that actually did the install. He denied ever doing any work on our vehicle. He jerked the subwoofer around pulling on wires and such, acting in a very childish manor. We tried to discuss all of our concerns with him and he just denied that any of those things happened. We shared our typed up list with him and he threw it in the trunk. He ended up just walking away from us. It was all I could do to keep my husband from following him because I didn't feel like having to deal with the cops that day. I've never met an owner of a business who acted as unprofessional as this man did that day. It is clear that he remains in business because he basically has no competition in the immediate area and people don't check/post Google reviews. DO NOT do business with this person/business. I would highly advise anyone looking for car audio/tint work to look elsewhere and make a drive out of town to a more reputable business. Don't waste your time and money doing...

I have very close to $16,000 USD invested in my SALT-12/dual 15" V5 D2 Nightshade setup - if not a little more - JUST for lows at 18Hz. I did most of the installation work myself until I got to the amp itself, at which point I paid car audio design $500 for the rest of my wiring, fan, etc. to be installed over 5 hours time. I went back out a week later to have my amp tuned, and the owner of the shop full tilt my bass knob and the bass knob on the amp, then proceeds to 3/4 tilt my gain knob - frying both SALT-12 boards and the input board to a $700 repair quote. and they refuse to take responsibility for it. turned around and asked me about a warranty. claiming it was a used amp, this that & the other. anything but accountability. the owner laughed at my face when I brought the repair quote to him. I would keep this in mind before you go there for any install work. for a little more reference, I have a 14.8v 350a Brand X alternator, big 3, 12v delete, (3) 20 foot leads of SHCA 1/0G OFC wire and SHCA 4ga OFC to my subs, 180ah of CMAX. there is no way this should have happened, as my amp was 100% functional before this abysmal tune, but it is still my fault, even though I wasn't tuning...

I had my dad to take my system back to this place that had not even been use that much at all after going to my neurology doctor and need money bad, after I had paid $1900.00 for it and they only wanted to pay $150.00 back for it, this should be telling people about this place and what they do to people there, now how is this even a place that would sell there used junk as well my system was new they installed and I was even told on the phone before at a $800.00 price back and that was still very low. I will be placing this on every site from tweeter to face book and all of world wide inter net, This is very wrong of them and how they treat there customers. and no very soon i'm going in for a surgery to try and stop epilepsy seizures so in basic they steal money from customers, I could see not getting a full price back how ever $150.00 from paying them $1900.00 and this system was not even...