My factory infotainment screen had been malfunctioning for a while, constantly resetting itself and not responding to any of the buttons, which made everyday driving frustrating and unsafe. I brought the car in and worked with J. Ram, the owner, who provided excellent service from start to finish. He and his team installed a new Sony unit and took the time to map out the perfect size and placement so it fit my Altima cleanly, and it looks amazing. It feels great to finally have fully functioning audio and a responsive screen in my car again. Highly recommend Car Audio Engineers to anyone dealing with a failing factory system or looking to upgrade their setup. read more

Car Audio Engineers - Car Stereo Installation Near Me - Sacramento, California

Thank you for responding John as I mentioned before in the original review, I did NOT request an install I asked for a troubleshoot or just to take a look at the stereo you asked no questions you were short, dismissive and not interested or helpful whatsoever. No attempt to invite me in the store or show me any products I left feeling unimportant and would not consider being a customer. You shouldn't judge a book by its cover. I'm really not concerned with how happy your other customers are with you. I don't want to assume that they were treated better because they have later model high-end cars. What matters to me is how happy I am, which I am not happy and you can save your gaslighting thank you very much! Sincerely, a fellow service provider The issue is not whether you had time or not that's understandable the issue is how I was treated. Still no accountability. read more

Car Audio Engineers - Car Stereo Installation Near Me - Sacramento, California

This place goessss HARD! I definitely recommend you book an appointment, these dudes are BUSY! After you book your appointment, you'll be like a kid in a candy shop. You'll be staring at all the screen, speakers, monitors and cars on display. They have a sick collection of classic cars they're working on, and these dudes definitely put their signature stuff on them. Value and service is top tier from this shop, came in with a quote and left with the car serviced. No need to look further, they make their custom boxes in shop so that saves you some time. He educates you on what your service will inquire and you'll leave with no questions. Super professional and amazing artist at his craft. read more

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HIGHLY RECOMMEND! Best shop in Sacramento area. Always go above and beyond the quality is unmatched. Jonathan and his team take pride in their work and craftsmanship they don't cheap out or cut corners. Honest and reputable shop for all audio/stereo upgrades. Everything is always installed properly the first time and done the right way. Certified and licensed installers they have many years of experience and knowledge! read more

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Recently went to Car Audio Engineers to have my alarm redone because I had issues with my previous installation. Jon took the time to check everything out and make sure it was working properly. Jon went the extra mile to follow up a couple weeks later to confirm all issues were resolved. Jon and Nora provided excellent customer service and would highly recommend!! Thank you again Jon and Nora and your team at Car Audio Engineers read more

100% satisfied! Professional and punctual. I initially asked them to install a dual dash cam in my 2025 AMG and found out that they even could do a radar detector! I happened to have a Uniden R8 that I was going to use for the car. They did a splendid job. I absolutely recommend this business! read more

Loving my cameras! Excellent service; excellent products; excellent pricing! Thank you, Jonathan et al! read more

From the time I phoned to inquire about my backup camera, and be put through to John for further assistance, I must say how impressed I was with the politeness and exceptional customer service. John was able to assist me without charging me an arm and a leg to install my backup camera. I had been to other shops, but they all insisted that I install one of their cameras which would have costed me much more. The dealership wanted to keep my vehicle for days, then give me a quote. John was able to diagnose, and install my camera within an hour! I highly recommend this business! read more

Recently had Car Play installed in our 2016 Mercedes SLK 350. Work was professionally done in a timely fashion. Both John & Nora were easy to work with. Had to call with a question & my issue was easily resolved. Highly recommend. read more

Went to Car Audio Engineers to replace the mediocre stock audio system in my Kia Stinger. Jonathan had me listen to a few different speakers and subs in their clean well-organized showroom and we came up with a plan - replace the front and rear door speakers, add an amp with DSP, and put a sub in the trunk. Right out of the gate the system sounded awesome. After breaking it in for a few months I took it back in, and Jonathan tweaked the sound a little to match my preferences. It sounds perfect now - tight punchy bass (kick drum sounds amazing), warm open midrange, clean highs, and a wide precise soundstage. I often find myself sitting in my driveway after I come home listening longer because it sounds so good. Highly recommended! read more

My panel that shows my back up mirror and plays my music. The whole panel went out. I had it replaced and love it.

They installed a Thinkware U3000 pro dashcam, an ivolt battery, and a MasterGard anit-theft system in my car. The installation looked great and professional. They took the time and walked me through the app settings, etc. I'm very happy with the products and with the service I Received. Well worth the money spent. I highly recommend them. read more

I brought in an instalation and troubleshooting nightmare! A system with no instructions and a jacked up existing set up from the cars previous owner. This man at Car Audio Engineers was patient, professional, and was dedicated to finally getting my car back in working condition with a brand new infotainment system. I was completely stressed out for weeks trying to fix all the issues. I gave up and took it to this place and it was the best decision I could have ever made. I look forward to driving my car everyday now. No more outdated, ugly, and small MMI system. Now I got a beautiful 13 inch screen, Android auto system! Thank you sir! read more

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Car Audio Engineers provides outstanding and attentive customer service at a fair and reasonable price. Had an issue that I needed fixed; they handled it quickly and effectively, with a clean and professional install. Great communication. I'll be back. read more

Let me begin by saying how helpful John and his crew are. I went into the shop to get a subwoofer installed in my Tesla model three and not only did. John informed me about the different options I had but also did a very fine job putting in my subwoofer. He took his time, organizing the wires and making everything look neat and concise. I highly highly recommend this shop as they are very delightful and very educated on their knowledge about their stuff. read more

Car Audio Engineers - Car Stereo Installation Near Me - Sacramento, California

I wanted to upgrade my car & get a new head unit + a backup camera installed in my 2008 Toyota Camry. I did a good amount of research to find a reliable place that was going to do the job and do it well. After reading the reviews for this place (it took a couple months to finally decide) I made an appointment and dropped my car off. Jonathan's really great, he was super helpful with sticking to my budget since I'm a college student and didn't want to go over. He genuinely cares about the customer and answered allllll the questions I had and made sure to sit down and show me how everything works. He mentioned how he had gotten a head unit installed by someone else and had been jipped before: he wanted start a company that people can rely on, fully trust, and be happy with results. That's truly what led me to write this review, seeing someone this genuine in this day and age is pretty uncommon. And, they offer a pretty long warranty if anything happens to the unit; and even longer warranty for other things such as wiring fixes. I'm really happy with the results and have a couple of friends and family who are looking to get similar upgrades, I for sure know where I'm referring them. If you're on the edge about getting your car upgraded or anything else they offer, do not hesitate to call Car Audio Engineers up, they deserve the hype and good reviews for simply being such great people & for doing solid work :) read more

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I didn't even have a chance to get work done here, yet, but I DEFINITELY WILL in the future. I've been having trouble with my car's Bluetooth connecting ever since I changed the battery. I called and John suggested I unpair my devices and factory reset. It worked! I think we all know the struggle of a silent car ride or Jimmy rigging with a portable speaker, not the best so I couldn't be more thrilled to have it working again. Meanwhile Buick was trying to charge me $250 to even look at it. Thank you soooo much to John and the Car Audio Engineer team, shoutout to Nora as well! read more

Had Jon custom build a flat JL 10" Sub in my MachE under rear floor board He also install a 360 birdseye view Cam system with a rear view monitor Clean work Highly recommended read more

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Jon and his team are the best. If you have a custom car electronics need, these are your guys. They know their products, cars and how to seamlessly integrate your aftermarket needs to be seamless and integrated. If you want a custom application, these are the guys for you. Jon and his team worked on my Porsche and these are not easy cars to integrate anything into, but the final product is better than OEM. read more

Bought a Jeep Gladiator and the stock audio is horrible in it. Full volume was weak and no bass whatsoever. I was recommended by a friend to check out CAE and i don't regret it one second. I went to the shop and talked to Jonathan and he was great to work with and very knowledgeable about all the car audio stuff. He gave me his recommendations on audio and the companies he likes to use and i never heard about the brands, but after hearing the speakers i am glad i went with them! High end audio equipment with the best sound quality! Go with his recommendations he definitely knows his car audio! We went with Blam Audio and swapped out all the speakers. Used Helix Amp and DSP. I bought my own JL audio stealth box made for the gladiators (it was the last one in stock)(on backorder everywhere). Had I nit found that stealth box i would have had a custom one made by Jonathan. I had seen some of the other vehicles he had in the shop and the custom boxes looked great! Also swapped out the small 7in screen to a 10in stinger unit. I wanted to be able to adjust the bass on the fly so a knob control was also installed under steering wheel. All in all if you want your audio done right and i mean installed proper using quality parts and quality install, then CAE is where you want to take it! I will let the pictures of the install do the talking! read more

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John was super helpful and I paid cash. I was actually a dollar short and he said don't worry about, but then I found quarters. Embarrassing! But then I get home and realized I still shorted him by 10 cents. I texted him last week about replacing a back up camera in my 2015 Honda Accord. He ordered cam from Honda then told me to come in at about 8:30am I arrived right on time and he completed the job in about 20 mins. John stayed in contact with me and answered all of my questions. He was also prompt and professional. Price was reasonable compared to other places. Thank you read more

Jonathan was responsive and professional for the installation of my Android Auto/Carplay module on my 2018 Q50. There was a slight issue with volume during the installation but he and his team troubleshot the system and discovered it was a faulty harness that I had supplied. Jonathan came up with a quick and better solution and all was buttoned up in no time. Would definitely be back for any audio/video needs for my vehicles. read more

I am extremely meticulous about everything I own. Jon and his guys match with this perfectly. Everything they do is done the way it should be, and they go above and beyond. His work is phenomenal, and his prices are more than fair. Don't waste your money anywhere else. read more

Car Audio Engineers - Car Stereo Installation Near Me - Sacramento, California

Wow, so nice to find great customer service! Jonathan was very patient in explaining the dash cam system to this non-techie consumer, and it has been working great. Their prices were good too, better than Ama*on. Highly recommend to anyone seeking dash cam, audio or even lighting systems for their vehicle. read more

If you want the work done professionally by knowledgeable techs, this is your only choice. I have a somewhat complicated audio setup in my car and always have to make sure the audio place I choose knows what they're doing. If not, I could lose sound quality and that's not acceptable. Jonathan knew exactly what I was talking about instantly and scheduled me for installation of a new stereo. Where I live, an alarm is useless because I'll never hear it from my apartment. It would just be an annoyance. So, after being incredibly patient and answering every single one of my questions, Jonathan suggested DroneMobile to alert me if my car is hit, moved, glass shattered, tilted, etc., and also shows me the location of my car and locks/unlocks my doors from the app. It also has a remote start and alarm functions should i need that later. You can also have it alert you if the vehicle is being driven over a set speed, which will come in handy when my teen starts driving. He even uses the same device in his own vehicle! I couldn't be happier. They do get busy so I encourage you to be patient with their scheduling, but it's definitely worth the wait. One last thing--when all was said and done and Jonathan had made sure I knew how everything worked, he ended up charging me LESS. One of the parts came in cheaper and he passed those savings on to me. You won't find a more knowledgeable and honest shop to have your system put in. Thanks Guys!! read more

I can't say enough good things about Auto Sound Engineers! After multiple failed attempts with other installers, these guys completely turned it around. Alpine head unit which was told to me by other shops that the unit is faulty was fixed by them. They cleaned up the disaster left behind, fixed all the problems, and tuned my system so the sound is flawless. Everything works and blends perfectly now! If you're in Sacramento and need audio work done right the first time, this is the ONLY place to go. True experts in their craft! read more

GO HERE FIRST!!! Best audio shop experience I've had! The parts were all fairly priced and he even gave me discounts to keep me in my budget! Now my system sounds like I always wanted it to Everything is so professionally tuned! The new tweeter speaker holes he added look OEM! read more

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I was looking for a place that was open early enough for convenience and was glad to seeCar audio engineers to be the only one open at the time ,took me in bright and early to replace my broken subwoofers with some brand new pair of 12s , no hesitation needed to put the work in to get me in and out no problem with professionalism . Coming back for sure for any other work on my beat. read more

I learned about Car Audio Engineers while having our car wrapped by Sacramento's leading XPEL installer. We had Jon install our dual channel dash cam and some footwell lights into our new 2021 Kia Telluride and 2021 Kia K5. This was supposed to be a simple install and quoted us 2.5 hours for each car. TLDR: Jon knows his electronics and how to get to all parts of a cars electronics. He's able to troubleshoot electronics and is an expert with his scope meter. His paid for techicnal resources for car schematics, wire harnesses, etc, didn't even have appropriate notes for Kia's odd electronics. The short version: He took great care of our Telluride and K5 and was careful around our new cars. Jon knows his stuff. He showed us some work on another customers car where he was custom fabricating parts for older cars and retrofitting them with better audio systems. Among his other tools, he has a plastic laser cutter and a 3D printer. Jon had the blackvue dashcams (front and rear) and footwell lights installed in no time for both cars. The blackvue knows when the car is on or off and acts accordingly. I wanted to use an Arduino system I built to control the footwell lights (and other stuff) and needed 2 inputs to trigger the footwell lights: when the headlights are on or when the dome lights are on. My arduino would turn on the footwell lights if either of those 2 were on. Jon had no problem providing these inputs, along with if the ignition was on. However, Kia has some complex wiring for the dome light trigger for the footwell lights. It turns out there's actually 2 wires that control when the dome lights are on, and each dome light has a computer that decodes the signal. In the end, it took about 12 hours over a couple days to trace all this out. He still only charged us 2.5 hrs per the quote, however, we insisted he charge us a little more. Long version: The Kia uses a 0 volt trigger to tell the dome lights on, and goes to around 11 volts for the Telluride or 3.52 volts for the K5 to tell the dome lights to turn off. No problem, I can handle this in software and simply reverse the logic. That works great if you close the door, the dome lights turn off after a bit of time. Then, you lock the door, the, the dome lights stay off, but the new footwell lights kept turning on. After pulling a couple of dome lights and using his scope meter, each dome light actually has 3 wires: 1) trigger wire 2) accessory power wire 3) ground/neg wire Each dome light is responsible for decoding this to determine when the light should actually be on. It turns out, when you lock either Kia, the car raises the trigger voltage but turns off the accessory wire. This keeps the dome light off but my Arduino kept seeing a high voltage for the trigger. In the end, Jon had to run another wire to my arduino so I can know if the accessory power was enabled. Everything works great. I would not hesitate one second to have Car Audio Engineers work on our new cars again and will recommend them to all our friends. read more

These guys ROCK! Took our Jeep in as the stereo was making the world's loudest beep when we switched inputs. We googled a fix and couldn't figure it out. We were thinking it was a loose wire. Jonathan quickly resolved it in the parking lot by using the standby mode... didn't blink an eye by fixing it on the spot. He listened, didn't judge at my ignorance and sent us home with a stereo that worked and we were no longer afraid to change the input. THANK YOU!!!!! highly recommend. read more

Quality service & communication. After calling multiple shops Car Audio Engineers were the only ones able to help. They delivered exactly what we needed. Appt was even shorter than expected. Very knowledgeable shop. Would definitely use them for future car audio needs. read more

I consulted with John to replace a bad back up camera installed on my 911. He is very helpful , responsive and knowledgeable. Unfortunately the camera they had in shop was not exactly what I was looking for and I ended up not going there. But regardless, I had great experience with them and highly recommend. Also, their prices are very reasonable. read more

I had to make sure to leave a great review as my experience visiting Car Audio Engineers exceeded all of my expectations. I came in for an initial consultation to get an idea of how to improve my car audio to get the sound I was aiming for. Big thanks to Johnathon, and his knowledge and expertise, who was able to help me with recommendations and planning out everything I would need. He was able to get my car scheduled for the time they would need to get everything installed and tuned sooner than expected. John and his team made sure to pay attention to all the little details and really took care of my vehicle. They even made sure to make adjustments to things that I didn't even know my car had, such as ANC microphones since it was a newer car which would have caused issues with a subwoofer being installed. Of course, you can most likely guess how excited and happy I was to hear the end result. I was absolutely blown away by their work. They even built a custom board for the amps and DSP. My audio sounds so clear and refined now... and don't get me started on the bass haha! I highly recommend coming here and will refer them to anyone I know looking for a quality and professional shop that treats you like family. read more

Jonathon runs a tight shop with skilled, certified technicians and the equipment necessary to handle the most complicated and challenging projects. I had a simple speaker upgrade but he and his techs made sure there wasn't a trace of their work. Though my new car cost over $50K, it has the worst factory sound system I've ever heard in a modern vehicle. The new speakers really help get the most out the flaccid amplifier. Jonathon took the extra step of fabricating a custom bracket for the tweeters on a 3-D printer. Although the sound isn't as good as the premium system in my previous car, it's still a remarkable upgrade and I am very happy. I ran a SPL test and I can get 80db loudness now without any clipping from the amp. The car's interior noise floor is about 70 and that 10db headroom is all I need. read more

I bought a front/rear dashcam but couldn't hardwire it myself so reached out to different businesses to get it done. Jonathan provided me with the lowest quote and he was also less than 10 min away from me! Once I was ready to schedule a time, he got me in the same day. When I got there, I did have a bit of trouble figuring out which suite was theirs but gave them a call and Jonathan came out to direct me. He explained to me how the brand I had bought (Thinkware) was a pretty good brand due to their software. This was good to hear as I didn't know much about dashcams when I bought one and was going based off reviews. Dropped off my car at 10:38am, he said it should be done around 12:30pm and I got a text at 12:11pm saying it was ready. He let me know they had already tried it out to make sure everything was working well AND told me there's a lifetime warranty. Other places I've talked to only stated a 1 year warranty. Jonathan was super nice and as a woman going anywhere car related it can be super intimidating but I felt completely fine and welcome walking through their shop. Thanks Jonathan! Will definitely recommend to others read more

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Amazing team! If you have a boat and looking for the best place to upgrade your system or add one, this is the place. They flawlessly designed, ordered and installed a new system in a very short time at a reasonable price. Will recommend to all my boating friends. Thank YOU Car Audio Engineers!!!! read more

I called to schedule an appointment to have my dash cam installed. I dropped off my vehicle at the agreed time. I was told it would done in a few hours. When I came back, the vehicle was ready to be picked up. Jonathan and his team are great to work with. I highly recommend coming here for your dash cam or car audio installation. read more

Needed the speakers replaced in my car. Chose Car Audio Engineers because of positive Yelp reviews and proximity to where I live. Made the right choice. Was able to book an appointment online. Service and installation were very professional. Price was fair. Very happy with the sound. read more

Jon and his team were great to work with. He was referred by a friend and I brought in my 64' Mercury to get his ideas. I wanted to keep the stock look and the speakers somewhat hidden. He was creative in his approach and redesigned the deck lid and kick panels with 2 10's and 4 6-inch speakers. I went with the bluetooth connection and he installed a custom cup holder with the volume/bass control knob hidden. The interior still looks original, but with great sound. I recently brought the car back to add 2 more custom speakers in the original center speaker space. I will eventually bring it back to get my trunk interior finished. Jon was fair priced and I'd recommend him to anyone who wants a tailored approach with creative ideas. 5 stars all the way! read more

I had some work completed by Jonathan about a year ago unfortunately my vehicle he did the work on got stolen in which they stripped all the audio out of it. I reached out to him soon as I found the vehicle and kept him updated on the status between the shops. I went in and he helped me outfit one of the best sound systems I have heard. He not only got me in quick he finished a nice size build in about a week. The attention to detail flawless from color matching panels to wiring to building a subwoofer an amazing subwoofer box. I appreciate you for getting me in so quick and knocking out this project. Hands down will be back for more work. I like to call his shop a boutique for tunes and much more. read more