Crimp or Solder
A crimped splice is OK if you are dealing with CB Radio and you don't mind losing high frequencies because there's no fidelity to static.
A soldered splice and connections have no resistance and won't attract spurious RF if you make a good splice and apply heat shrink. They don't cause static from being loose.
Any stereo installer worth his salt solders EVERYTHING!
Ev-ree-thing!
A soldered splice and connections have no resistance and won't attract spurious RF if you make a good splice and apply heat shrink. They don't cause static from being loose.
Any stereo installer worth his salt solders EVERYTHING!
Ev-ree-thing!
I agree with Rick 100%
Soldering really is the way to go. Nothing worse than trying to find and fix the loose connection causing you problems everytime you hit a bump. Especially if you need to take the dash apart.
To the person worried about the iron setting the car on fire: A badly crimped wire could start a fire too.
It takes more time, but is well worth it in the long run.
Why waist time i just twist wire fold it down on the rubber surround and electric tape and its done. never had a loose connection and i have a loud *** w7 and have been on some bumpy roads, never suffered from loose connection or loss of quality.
Joined: Feb 2008
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Why waist time i just twist wire fold it down on the rubber surround and electric tape and its done. never had a loose connection and i have a loud *** w7 and have been on some bumpy roads, never suffered from loose connection or loss of quality.
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 1,295
This Soldering Iron is worth EVERY Penny. Once you get used to waiting a second before it reaches temperature ... you'll be soldering everything.
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The only connections i have used for that are the wires on the back of the head unit. all the other connection like on the amps and such i use the proper terminals and such, i like to use the ones that you can use the allen wrench on, but they are slightly more expensive. I dont like crimping conections because they are not reusable like the allen wrench ones are
Like i said b4 from factory they do not plan on you ever replacing it with something different. and they dont want to be liable if something goes wrong. I am always changing stuff in there so i should make it easy for my self and nobody sees behind the dash. anything that anyone can see in my system looks completely professional, thats where my time was spent.
Like i said b4 from factory they do not plan on you ever replacing it with something different. and they dont want to be liable if something goes wrong. I am always changing stuff in there so i should make it easy for my self and nobody sees behind the dash. anything that anyone can see in my system looks completely professional, thats where my time was spent.
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 435
From: New Hampshire
I solder whenever I can with a blue point pencil butane soldering iron, but sometimes at work when I'm fighting time I will use these crimp on butt connectors along with heat shrink. 
There almost as good as solder and I've never had any combacks for lost connections (knock on wood)
There almost as good as solder and I've never had any combacks for lost connections (knock on wood)
