Music sounded off when I was driving to lunch today, lacking bass, so I tried turning up the sub a bit and didn't get any response. I noticed the power light was off on the remote, so I pulled into a parking lot to check and see if a cable had come loose. It had, all of them, and the sub had fled the supposed safety of my trunk.
It's possible the sub chose to run away rather than live with my horrible taste in music, but I choose to believe it was taken against it's will since I'm an optimist.
Apparently my Hyundai Sonata had decided to engage in one of it's more joyous activities of randomly popping my trunk open the previous day and someone noticed a nice sub sitting there ready to be liberated and decided it was free sub day. Yippee! They were smart enough to close the trunk after so I wouldn't notice for a day.
The radio was behaving oddly yesterday and audio stopped playing though the head-unit was otherwise working. I had thought maybe a loose connection or oddly located short caused it, but after driving around a little while and going over another bump the audio came back on. I was listening at a pretty low volume so I didn't notice I had a lot less bass than normal. Turns out it was a short, the ends of the power leads for the sub were loose in the trunk and had touched. I'm lucky more permanent damage wasn't done.
I did learn four valuable lessons:
1) Screw Hyundai's crappy sensitive key fob that keeps opening my trunk.
2) I can, and will, disable remote trunk opening from now on.
3) Always bolt down your subs. If it had been bolted down it would probably still be there. They didn't steal the 4-channel amp bolted next to it, so I doubt they would've gotten the sub if it was bolted down as well.
4) Record serial numbers for any aftermarket gear in your car. With the S/N the cops can search a database of items sold to pawn shops to check for your property, without it you're screwed. Apparently the box for my JBL powered sub doesn't have the S/N on the outside of it, it's only directly on the sub.
It's possible the sub chose to run away rather than live with my horrible taste in music, but I choose to believe it was taken against it's will since I'm an optimist.
Apparently my Hyundai Sonata had decided to engage in one of it's more joyous activities of randomly popping my trunk open the previous day and someone noticed a nice sub sitting there ready to be liberated and decided it was free sub day. Yippee! They were smart enough to close the trunk after so I wouldn't notice for a day.
The radio was behaving oddly yesterday and audio stopped playing though the head-unit was otherwise working. I had thought maybe a loose connection or oddly located short caused it, but after driving around a little while and going over another bump the audio came back on. I was listening at a pretty low volume so I didn't notice I had a lot less bass than normal. Turns out it was a short, the ends of the power leads for the sub were loose in the trunk and had touched. I'm lucky more permanent damage wasn't done.
I did learn four valuable lessons:
1) Screw Hyundai's crappy sensitive key fob that keeps opening my trunk.
2) I can, and will, disable remote trunk opening from now on.
3) Always bolt down your subs. If it had been bolted down it would probably still be there. They didn't steal the 4-channel amp bolted next to it, so I doubt they would've gotten the sub if it was bolted down as well.
4) Record serial numbers for any aftermarket gear in your car. With the S/N the cops can search a database of items sold to pawn shops to check for your property, without it you're screwed. Apparently the box for my JBL powered sub doesn't have the S/N on the outside of it, it's only directly on the sub.
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