2006 Hummer H3: DIY bad wiring strikes again and costs you more $$$

The owner of this H3 tried to do their radio wiring themselves. Unfortunately, it caused their vehicle module to malfunction. They had to purchase another module in order to get their radio working again.

You can see the before and after photo of the wiring harness and why it is important that it be done correctly, otherwise it ends up costing you more money!

This customer came to us from another shop because the radio reception was not so great after changing the radio. We did some initial diagnosis and found quite a bit of extra equipment and wiring that was not needed. When we showed it to him, he was surprised because he supposedly paid the other shop to remove all the equipment we removed.

Photos are “before”. You can see a before and after here.

After removing the equipment and revising the wiring, he got the improvements he was looking for. We saw this customer again a few weeks later to do some work in his other vehicle…

This customer recently purchased their vehicle and could not understand why the radio would randomly lose reception. After a quick diagnosis, we found a poor installation that didn’t take into account that the vehicle’s safety structure was interfering with the radio’s wiring.

We removed the poor quality gear and replaced them with our higher quality supplies. Our professional installation was all it took to get the radio tuning into FM consistently and got the vehicle sounding great.

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This customer’s family (father and son) have been coming to us for many years. In this case, we were helping them with the backup camera installation that came with the truck when they purchased it.

Whoever installed it cut the usual corners and it was a double whammy because not only was the backup camera damaged because of the poor quality of work but so was the vehicle’s data module from the shorted out wires.

We were able to work around the two failures and installed a new backup camera (with a longer warranty) which they hopefully won’t need because the installation was done correctly this time!

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This BMW came to us initially because of a buzzing noise from the bass speaker. You can see the problem from the photos. Of course, the dealer will only sell you the entire part. We searched around and tried a few parts and were able to come up with a solution for the owner for less, including our labor.

As usual, we check over everything when we are about to do work on a vehicle and this time found that the existing audio system installation was not done correctly. We alerted the owner to this and resolved it such that it would not cause further damage to the audio system components.

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