[cdgatti]

Received this offer from a local respected installer. What do you think?

JBL MS-8
2-kenwood excelon 8" shallow woofers
2-kenwood excelon 4 channel amp (small footprint design)
- all speakers will be powered by the kenwwod amps With labor,wiring and shop materials you are at 3130.43 out the door. this would make a great sounding system.

[Technic]

Originally Posted by cdgatti

Received this offer from a local respected installer. What do you think?

JBL MS-8
2-kenwood excelon 8" shallow woofers
2-kenwood excelon 4 channel amp (small footprint design)
- all speakers will be powered by the kenwwod amps With labor,wiring and shop materials you are at 3130.43 out the door. this would make a great sounding system.

$1200 in equipment, $2000 in labor and no front/rear speaker upgrade. Think about that.

[kaigoss69]

Originally Posted by cdgatti

Received this offer from a local respected installer. What do you think?

JBL MS-8
2-kenwood excelon 8" shallow woofers
2-kenwood excelon 4 channel amp (small footprint design)
- all speakers will be powered by the kenwwod amps With labor,wiring and shop materials you are at 3130.43 out the door. this would make a great sounding system.

You can do much better than that for half the money. Besides, what's the installer gonna do once he realizes that the Kenwood woofers don't fit?

[rollinstone157]

Originally Posted by cdgatti

Received this offer from a local respected installer. What do you think?

JBL MS-8
2-kenwood excelon 8" shallow woofers
2-kenwood excelon 4 channel amp (small footprint design)
- all speakers will be powered by the kenwwod amps With labor,wiring and shop materials you are at 3130.43 out the door. this would make a great sounding system.

No. Bad job. Let's try again: contact VP Electricity of Musicar NorthWest, and he will tell you exactly what you need to have a great system.

Whatever shop you went to has absolutely no clue how to make a "great system".

[808MGuy]

Looked into a set of the Kenwoods a while back. Not sure if the ones you are talking about are the same ones but the ones I looked at would not fit under the seats. Too deep even with a spacer.

[ctuna]

The car model year and type will determine what you can put in
Coupes have shallow doors.

There are three different basic systems identify yours
http://www.e90post.com/forums/attach...2&d=1266451970

If you are unlucky enough to have the US 2010 early 2011 model you need
a processor to flatten the head output before amping anything, unless you have
Logic 7, as the base model stereo is an unamplified system. (head power only)
also Logic 7 also is not easy to modify.

[Spy021]

I agree with the general consensus...

After doing a bit of homework and research on the forums, I ended up contacting VP Electricity of Musicar NorthWest and ordering their Level 1 system for a fraction of the cost quoted by local installer.

Granted I will be installing it, but considering all of the effort that they go through to make the system pretty much plug and play, it should be a pretty simple job. Definitely give them a shout before you end up doing anything, if for nothing more than another opinion on your available options.