ohh no no i am not going to have it installed at best buy shit haha me and my friend are going to do it . we did it to his other car last sumer.. i said i will go to best buy JUST for the SUB AND AMP WIRE KIT.. haha

 

The last time I heard places like Brandsmart did free radio installs if the radio was more than certain amount of money. Him installing the radio would not void any warranties. The warranties are with the make, not the store. The store has to follow the warranty of the make. And since he will have to pull the radio out to hook up the amp, its pretty much just worth for him to do it himself anyways, so theres less chance of screwing up anything when he pulls the radio back out, specially since unless he purchased a wire harness as well, some places might do crappy wiring jobs.

 

and other than just a crappy job , they use cheap cable that after a week the only base u hear are from ur front ur speakers .

 

Wire is wire. Just get a cheap $25 4 ga. Scosche wiring kit from Walmart. You'll spend at least twice as much on a 4 ga. kit at Best Buy.

 

i have a pioneer 6600 HU, 6.5 kickers in the front and 6x9 kickers in the back, what type of amp do i need? 2 channel? 4 channel? one channel? what? i dont have a sub and dont plan on geting one.

 

A 2 channel or a 4 channel would work. With a 2 channel, you can wire each side (left/right) to a channel, or wire your fronts to the amp and run your rears off the deck. With a 4 channel, you can wire each speaker to a separate channel. A 4 channel is probably most flexible.

 

I would say get yourself a crossover, and a 4 channel. You gotta make sure you seperate the lows from the front speakers since they are 6.5. Since you dont have a sub, you will be pushing as much bass out the speakers as you can, so you want the front speakers to receive less lows thats the rear. It will sound nicer at higher volumes that way. 2 channel you would have to bridge the front speakers and the rear speakers as one, which means stereo wouldnt sound as good. The setttings for the front speakers have to be different than the rear. Even better would be to get a crossover and 2 smaller amps, that way you can fine tune even more.

 

If he has components in the front, they should probably already have a set of passive crossovers and he wouldn't need to buy a separate crossover. Also, you don't "bridge speakers", you bridge an amp. Stereo only consists of two channels, so saying that "stereo wouldn't sound as good" using a 2 channel amp is a bit misleading. The direction of the soundstage might be affected using a 2 channel amp for all 4 speakers, but that could be easily remedied by running the front speakers off the amp and powering the rears with the deck - the deck should have crossover and fader settings to fix that.

 

so you thing the wal-mart wires will be good . everything it comes with is ok..

 

Yeah, as long as the wires have proper shielding, which the WalMart kits do, you should be okay. You won't notice a difference by paying more for a different kit at Best Buy.