I ordered a pair of Component Speakers off Amazon with the hopes of having it professionally installed. Unfortunately few car audio shops will rarely do the install, so I was quite surprised when Car Stereo Warehouse said that they would do the work, and only for a modest $40. I was told to get to the shop early, so I drove about sixty minutes to the Aurora location. Once arriving, not but 90 minutes after given the estimate, I was told that there is no way they could do the install for $40, of which the clerk I dealt with told me that he thought I had only wanted to install one speaker. One speaker. Not the set, but one. The quote jumped to $125; as the installation of component speakers can be time consuming, and after eating up a morning worth of driving, I decided to pay the $125 (a shame on me to be sure).The installer told me I would have to wait about two hours; I came back after two and a half, and he asked me to wait another hour (for a total of about four hours). The installation looked clean, but as 100% of speakers are essentially hidden from view, I figured that as long as the speakers worked, the install job would be sufficient. They did not, and it was not. When rolling down both front windows to test for the necessary clearance between window and speaker, both windows scraped against the speakers. The whole system then went dead. The installer quickly took apart my doors to get to the speakers; he had not screwed them in correctly, and had mounted the small crossover boxes in a bad location.After an additional 20 minutes of work, the installer said it was as good a fit as I could possibly hope for with a Subaru. While Subaru's certainly make aftermarket stereo installs a hassle, they are not impossible, and for a price of $125, should be installed with as much precision as a Honda or Toyota (both relatively simple cars to install aftermarket parts). Within five minutes of driving from the Stereo Warehouse lot, the left speaker was not functioning; Al the installer took the door apart
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