Buyers Beware! Zcar03's "custom work"
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Buyers Beware! Zcar03's "custom work"
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I started making some amp racks and sub boxes for the Z. I can do wood or fiberglass. Amp racks are also available with colored LEDs. Racks start at 100 no cubbies,150 w/ cubbies,and 175 w/ cubbies and LEDs. Choose carpet or vinyl. I can also make the under strut boxes to spec for 150 carpet or vinyl. Add for shipping. Check out these boxes.
http://www.crazkustoms.com/gallery
PM or email me at crazkustoms@yahoo.com for Fiberglass quotes.
I just got my box/amp rack today and let me tell you, it took well over a month to get the finished product, but it was worth it! JUST KIDDING!!!
I am so extremely pissed off right now you dont even understand. His work is HORRIBLE!!! I am not one to call people out online, but this guy deserves it for how shady he was. He kept adding charges and even tried to charge me a lot more money for vinyl that was originally included in his estimate.
Now to what he did wrong:
1. He forgot to put a terminal on the box!
2. He didn't use MDF board...wtf...
3. HE DIDNT EVEN SEAL THE GOD DAMN BOX!!! If i blow onto the crack where he "sealed" it with screws i can feel the air blowing into the inside of the box...if someone was ignorant of car audio they would have hooked up their sub and blown their sub with the huge air leaks everywhere.
4. He used staples to hold down the vinyl...there's this stuff called spray on adhesive for vinyl...it works wonders and doesnt leave crooked sharp staples sticking out all over.
5. His vinyl cuts were all sketchy, no straight cuts and the cuts didn't even line up right.
6. His cubby holes were supposed to have holes on the sides so wire could be fed to the amps inside the cubbies...he forgot to do this...
7. He angled his cubby holes so that rectangular objects (such as an xbox) won't fit. Common sense works wonders...
8. He didn't vinyl the cubby holes so wherever there is space that you can see into the cubby hole you will see wood and poorly cut vinyl with staples sticking out all over.
9. He placed his LEDs (extra charge) in the most stupid places...he put them on the inside of the cubby holes so that they will light up the amps and xbox inside...but he didnt cut the holes bigger so that the lights would actually shine on the electronics, so the lights arent going to shine out anywhere, just get blocked out.
10. The amp rack was "sealed" with some cheap epoxy that didnt hold, it is already coming apart and will break soon enough.
11. He didnt cut the ring for the sub into the box like he said he would, and his excuse on the phone was that it would "compromise the air space" right man right...
That's all i can think of right now, but i'm pretty sure there are a variety of other things. I paid almost $300 and waited over a month for this and he has a horrible attitude and will not let me return it. He said he'd reimburse me for the money it takes to fix it. I can build sub boxes a lot better than he did, but the reason i paid him to do it was because i didnt want to spend all the time, i had already put about 30 hours into my stereo system over break and i didnt want to spend any extra time with other stuff.
I'm estimating that it will take another good 6-7 hours to fix everything he did wrong + the cost of sealant, a terminal, spray paint, vinyl, and vinyl adhesive.
Needless to say, i am one angry man right now!
-Alex
I started making some amp racks and sub boxes for the Z. I can do wood or fiberglass. Amp racks are also available with colored LEDs. Racks start at 100 no cubbies,150 w/ cubbies,and 175 w/ cubbies and LEDs. Choose carpet or vinyl. I can also make the under strut boxes to spec for 150 carpet or vinyl. Add for shipping. Check out these boxes.
http://www.crazkustoms.com/gallery
PM or email me at crazkustoms@yahoo.com for Fiberglass quotes.
I just got my box/amp rack today and let me tell you, it took well over a month to get the finished product, but it was worth it! JUST KIDDING!!!
I am so extremely pissed off right now you dont even understand. His work is HORRIBLE!!! I am not one to call people out online, but this guy deserves it for how shady he was. He kept adding charges and even tried to charge me a lot more money for vinyl that was originally included in his estimate.
Now to what he did wrong:
1. He forgot to put a terminal on the box!
2. He didn't use MDF board...wtf...
3. HE DIDNT EVEN SEAL THE GOD DAMN BOX!!! If i blow onto the crack where he "sealed" it with screws i can feel the air blowing into the inside of the box...if someone was ignorant of car audio they would have hooked up their sub and blown their sub with the huge air leaks everywhere.
4. He used staples to hold down the vinyl...there's this stuff called spray on adhesive for vinyl...it works wonders and doesnt leave crooked sharp staples sticking out all over.
5. His vinyl cuts were all sketchy, no straight cuts and the cuts didn't even line up right.
6. His cubby holes were supposed to have holes on the sides so wire could be fed to the amps inside the cubbies...he forgot to do this...
7. He angled his cubby holes so that rectangular objects (such as an xbox) won't fit. Common sense works wonders...
8. He didn't vinyl the cubby holes so wherever there is space that you can see into the cubby hole you will see wood and poorly cut vinyl with staples sticking out all over.
9. He placed his LEDs (extra charge) in the most stupid places...he put them on the inside of the cubby holes so that they will light up the amps and xbox inside...but he didnt cut the holes bigger so that the lights would actually shine on the electronics, so the lights arent going to shine out anywhere, just get blocked out.
10. The amp rack was "sealed" with some cheap epoxy that didnt hold, it is already coming apart and will break soon enough.
11. He didnt cut the ring for the sub into the box like he said he would, and his excuse on the phone was that it would "compromise the air space" right man right...
That's all i can think of right now, but i'm pretty sure there are a variety of other things. I paid almost $300 and waited over a month for this and he has a horrible attitude and will not let me return it. He said he'd reimburse me for the money it takes to fix it. I can build sub boxes a lot better than he did, but the reason i paid him to do it was because i didnt want to spend all the time, i had already put about 30 hours into my stereo system over break and i didnt want to spend any extra time with other stuff.
I'm estimating that it will take another good 6-7 hours to fix everything he did wrong + the cost of sealant, a terminal, spray paint, vinyl, and vinyl adhesive.
Needless to say, i am one angry man right now!
-Alex
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Sorry, pictures and extended discussions/flames can be found on this thread!
https://my350z.com/forum/audio-and-video/165725-buyer-warning-review-of-zcar03-s-custom-work.html
https://my350z.com/forum/audio-and-video/165725-buyer-warning-review-of-zcar03-s-custom-work.html
damn sorry to hear that!... u shoulda just went to a local reputable store and asked them to build ur sub enclosure.
Let just hope the guy u bought from explains his F*ck ups and gives u ur $ back.
by the way, how did u ever trust him to build u a amp rack and box?!? Do u know someone purchased something from him?
Let just hope the guy u bought from explains his F*ck ups and gives u ur $ back.
by the way, how did u ever trust him to build u a amp rack and box?!? Do u know someone purchased something from him?
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no he had pictures of previous projects that looked really good 
, turns out he stole the pictures to try to start his own little sub box building thing thinking he could recreate such masterpeices as the stuff he showd on his site.
, turns out he stole the pictures to try to start his own little sub box building thing thinking he could recreate such masterpeices as the stuff he showd on his site.
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