Official "Whacker" or "Screwed Up Install" Thread

Is this the worst spotlight install you have ever seen?

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 21.3%
  • No

    Votes: 37 78.7%

  • Total voters
    47

CrownVic97

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May 21, 2010
3,350
Hazen, ND
Pimp My Mower, boyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

:p
 
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Doyle257

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Jan 13, 2015
658
Cheektowaga, NY
I mean...I would prolly do it. We've had several guys respond to our station on Riding lawn mowers...I guess thats what you get when your station is in the middle of a residential area...
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CrownVic97

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May 21, 2010
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Hazen, ND

Jarred J.

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May 21, 2010
11,580
Shelbyville, TN
no oversized load escort is complete without a 10 inch sub....
 
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Doyle257

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Jan 13, 2015
658
Cheektowaga, NY
no oversized load escort is complete without a 10 inch sub....
gotta pound them sick beats while cruising down the road with ZERO amber lighting...

Do these guys just not have any pride in their work that they post videos of their terrible wiring jobs, or does "It needs to be cleaned up" make it ok across the board...
 
May 9, 2012
1,153
Central Florida
gotta pound them sick beats while cruising down the road with ZERO amber lighting...

Do these guys just not have any pride in their work that they post videos of their terrible wiring jobs, or does "It needs to be cleaned up" make it ok across the board...
I think "it needs to be cleaned up" makes it acceptable. I immediately noticed how the 6 surface mounts on the front of the bar were not evenly aligned and one or two of them are not even level lol.
 

Jarred J.

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May 21, 2010
11,580
Shelbyville, TN
his amber lights "are on order" lol wonder what GA lighting code is...

no mention of what the 2 antennas are for but i like how one is bent...
 

Jarred J.

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May 21, 2010
11,580
Shelbyville, TN
So I don't even know how to classify this jewel that was at harbor freight... If I hadn't of spotted the dashlight it would not qualify for here...
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And the trailer lights on the camper top...
 

CrownVic97

Member
May 21, 2010
3,350
Hazen, ND
Ummmmm......yeah. I'm so stunned by the amount of stupid on that Ranger, the pictures can write their own stories and jokes...o_O
 

Kendreth

Member
Jul 28, 2011
141
Nashua, NH
when you get that extra space on the credit card and go way too far.....

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Jarred J.

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May 21, 2010
11,580
Shelbyville, TN
Needs some 700s on the tailgate, ions under it, and done cannons under the door handles.....
 
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1863650

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Jun 2, 2014
111
Colorado
So I don't even know how to classify this jewel that was at harbor freight... If I hadn't of spotted the dashlight it would not qualify for here...

And the trailer lights on the camper top...

But...does it count as a whacker/screwed-up install if it's intentionally ridiculous? That one is so over-the-top it looks like someone was making a serious effort to make it a screwball truck.
 

Jarred J.

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May 21, 2010
11,580
Shelbyville, TN
i dont know the "owners" intentions.. LOL i didnt see her until after i took the pics, but the lady in the passenger side would have qualified for a "jazz dad post" in the ring... bwahahaha :eek:
 

CrownVic97

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May 21, 2010
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Hazen, ND

Jarred J.

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May 21, 2010
11,580
Shelbyville, TN
Well this thing passed me... And then pulled into Krystal's..KIMG0292.JPGKIMG0291.JPG

All the occupants were in the plus sized range... Poor impala...

At least it's "legit" 3 minibars and 2 beacons.. and some other stuff...
 
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Doyle257

Member
Jan 13, 2015
658
Cheektowaga, NY
Oh....god....its.....awful......

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Found these on Facebook....whoever did this should hand over their wire strippers and other tools to the appropriate authorities, Immediately..
 

Evtech161

New Member
Nov 9, 2016
157
Woburn
A customer recently called to ask us if we could fit him into our schedule to have a look at his 2017 F350 Platnium... Last year, when he started plowing with the truck he bought some lights on line, and had a local amateur car stereo installer put the lights into his $75,000 pick up truck......I can see some of you shaking your heads in disgust already....fast forward to present day ... everything in the left side of his grill had stopped working..... below are the reasons why...... 4 hours later all lights were rewired with correct cable,heat shrunk, and soldered... After seeing this disaster in his vehicle, he has now asked us to rip out and install 6 new heads and re-do the rest of his truck.....at least for now, he has some functionality, and less likely chance his truck will catch fire during
 

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Jarred J.

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11,580
Shelbyville, TN
mus thave bought his speaker wire off amazon
 

pdk9

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May 26, 2010
3,834
New York & Florida
when you get that extra space on the credit card and go way too far.....

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Wow. Having been a FF in NY for 4 years this annoys me b/c it gives the rest of us a bad name. Everyone can agree that the NYS V&T Law is outdated (single blue beacon for VFD & single green beacon for VAS), so most guys just get a blue dash light and a pair (notice I referred to a singular pair, not 10 pairs) of blue grill lights, but this just looks idiotic and gives some of those “haters” out there a reason to give all other vollies a hard time. Being obnoxious and going way above “bending” the rules (ie making your own rules about which colors you can run) leads to generalizations that the rest are the same, and I’d be willing to bet my paycheck that this guy drives like an A$$ while going to calls (even though it’s only a courtesy light), so he probably makes even more enemies.

Not to mention, it’s pretty bad when you make Hatzolah POVs look simplistic (I don’t think I’ve ever seen dual stacked ILBs, let alone 2 ILBs wedged in between a roof lightbar and like 20 grill lights). I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a Long Island POV b/c they’re the most notorious for these types of installs; they’re basically the hatzolah of NYS VFD POVs. I didn’t think it was possibly to have more grill level lights than Morningside’s rescue
 
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