Ive bought a alpine sub amp and box today im just after some ideas for fixing it in the boot to stop it sliding around 
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I have an Ibiza, and i screwed my amp into the right of the boot wall, sits nicely. then run all the wires under the carpet, and made a small hole right next to the channels, rcas, etc and wired it up. looks really neat I think. I didnt want to screw it into the back seat, because I have to load stuff with the seat flat sometimes, and it would just get in the way.
My sub just sits there! Its quite heavy, it never really slides about or move! You could use velcro strips to keep it in place?
My sub just sits there! Its quite heavy, it never really slides about or move! You could use velcro strips to keep it in place?
The heavier it is, the more damage it will do in a head on if/when it flies into the skull of someone sitting on the back seat!
EVERYTHING should be properly secured for piece of mind. There's lots of holes in the side panels of the boot, for example - but my preferred method is to make a false floor out of MDF which I screw down and bolt the amps to that.
In my last install I took out the spare wheel (got a can of that expandable foam which THANK GOD I never had to use) and bolted my sub into the screw hole left from the wheel.
Sure velcro is an option, as is sticking it down, but I know people who have bolted a metal bar across the back seats and used that. For pity's sake secure your gear in some way though!
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Sold the car to buy a....
Velcro won't hold it in an accident mate....
It needs to be screwed down.
Pete (ICEMAN) showed me a decent mounting point to screw my stealthbox to - it only came shipped with velcro which i think is very silly/dangerous.
The amp itself is screwed onto the back of the seat, and that's not going anywhere now either.
It needs to be screwed down.
Pete (ICEMAN) showed me a decent mounting point to screw my stealthbox to - it only came shipped with velcro which i think is very silly/dangerous.
The amp itself is screwed onto the back of the seat, and that's not going anywhere now either.
Take out the boot carpet, use it as a template on a large sheet of MDF and cut the MDF to form a new layer for the boot floor.
Now cover that floor in some car carpet (Autoleads make some that matches the colour of the OE carpet very well) so it doesn't look horrible. Spray on glue and some staples underneath where the carpet goes under the floor does a good job of this.
Then remove the sub from the box, place the box where you want it, screw through the base of the box into this new MDF floor (a screw in each corner and one in the middle will do) and re-fit the sub.
As the MDF floor is the same size and shape as the boot, it wont move around. And since the box is screwed to that, that wont be moving either
All this will take around 20 minutes if you're handy with a jigsaw.
Now cover that floor in some car carpet (Autoleads make some that matches the colour of the OE carpet very well) so it doesn't look horrible. Spray on glue and some staples underneath where the carpet goes under the floor does a good job of this.
Then remove the sub from the box, place the box where you want it, screw through the base of the box into this new MDF floor (a screw in each corner and one in the middle will do) and re-fit the sub.
As the MDF floor is the same size and shape as the boot, it wont move around. And since the box is screwed to that, that wont be moving either
All this will take around 20 minutes if you're handy with a jigsaw.
Hmm as stupid as it sounds, i didnt even think about the safety aspect. But I like the idea of securing it down, thats a project for as I've got the next 3 months of doing NOTHING! But, im going to design something a little less permanent, so that i can take the sub out without unscrewing the actual sub.
Take out the boot carpet, use it as a template on a large sheet of MDF and cut the MDF to form a new layer for the boot floor.
Now cover that floor in some car carpet (Autoleads make some that matches the colour of the OE carpet very well) so it doesn't look horrible. Spray on glue and some staples underneath where the carpet goes under the floor does a good job of this.
Then remove the sub from the box, place the box where you want it, screw through the base of the box into this new MDF floor (a screw in each corner and one in the middle will do) and re-fit the sub.
As the MDF floor is the same size and shape as the boot, it wont move around. And since the box is screwed to that, that wont be moving either
All this will take around 20 minutes if you're handy with a jigsaw.
that's hardly more secure than just throwing the box in the boot IMO...
BOLT IT DOWN!!!
my amp is bolted to sub box and my sub sits on like a half fake floor, stops it moving side to side an front to back, and I can still just about access my spare. In an accident, dont think it will fly out through the parcel shelf and up over the back head rests.
In my last leon just had it secured in with the velcro strapping, and that survived rolling several times into some trees and didn't come out of the boot, even tho the car ended up on its roof
In my last leon just had it secured in with the velcro strapping, and that survived rolling several times into some trees and didn't come out of the boot, even tho the car ended up on its roof
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