C5 Corvette new install - sux 4/6 speakers replaced…read moreRR clipping at 27% System distorts at 30% Bezel doesn't fit Refused free corrections

Ultimate Competence Fabrication is more accurate…read more... Just wanted to share a few experiences with these characters so that no one makes a similar expensive mistake. As always, I include the caveat that you may not have the same problems and if not, bless you for your success in life. Or for your brother the 6'4" Alabama State Trooper. Notable reflections from My Year With UAF: 1. $1200 is chicken feed according to the employees. Anything less than $5K worth of Cochlear Destruction means they're doing you a favor and shut up about whatever the end result is. 2. Excuses given for why the audio quality is tinny and the bass sounds as though some yabbo is thumping on a cardboard oatmeal cylinder: a. It's a Jeep. Nobody can put speakers in a Jeep. (Clearly not UAF.) b. It's a Jeep Unlimited. It's too long for the sound to be good. (Lesson Learned: Don't go here for limo audio upgrades.) c. It's an old Jeep. Nobody makes decent speakers for old Jeeps. (You just waved a red cape at hordes of Jeep owners, Bud. So explain the $1K worth of Memphis M Class speakers that a Real Installer put in without any issues.) d. It's your ears. You listen to too much opera I guess. (Wrong again.) e. Somebody put expanding spray foam in your overhead soundbar. (A Real Mobile Audio Installer and I looked. This was A Lie.) f. Installed Yugo-worthy speakers (Orion) that can be found online at Amazon and Walmart for less than $30. Was advised that I was charged several hundred dollars more because of the UAF warranty and because they can't pay retail prices: wholesale costs more. (Oh, dear. Just because you're yelling this in my face without a mask and taking advantage of the two-foot difference in our heights doesn't mean that Carlo Collodi wouldn't have instantly recognized your primary trait.) 3. Continuing with the list of No Excuse for It behaviors: a. Failure to actually install new speakers in the dash and kick panel. He figured I'd never know. Wrong again. b. Installed new double DIN console and failed to reconnect power outlets. Twice. Despite being reminded several times over several months. c. Requested unit with CD player, direct front plug for Alexa-enabled Garmin GPS and rear camera display. Waited four months while being told 'the ship from China with the part was stuck somewhere off California because of the pandemic.' Then discovered that instead of the direct front plug, he put a homemade monstrosity made of black electrical tape through the back of the Tuffy security glove box which meant it couldn't be used unless the metal cover was open and knocking into the passenger's knees. 4. Yes, I spoke with the owner. Twice. I was advised they would do 'whatever it took to make it right.' Uh-huh. And that's one of those lines on the same level as 'The check's in the mail.' And I set all this out in a FB message to the owner. No response. I was also treated to a barrage of complaints about how fussy I am, blah blah blah. That's one more difference between us. I was honest about wanting something of decent quality, honest in paying up front and honest in being patient when requested to wait two months for UAF to move to a new location and four months while they worked through Christmas orders. The moral of the story is don't bother with these guys unless there's something they have that you can't get anywhere else. Which reminds me of a limerick about the girl from Nantucket.