Where are you guys grounding your amps.
Trying to decide which is the best place.
Any Ideas and suggestions.
i used to have ti run to a bolt i put through the trunk right behind the driver taillight. but it took way to much effort.
I want something closer to the back seat.

 

Seat belt bolt.

 

are you getting any hum
you put in under it so the seat belt hold the ground loop down right

 

you have to sand the paint off the seat belt bolt + sand down the area where the bolt goes.

 

grounded mine in the spare tire well.

 

+1

 

yeah i think i will go there
are you talking where the seat belt buckle attaches or the part on the next to the fuel pump where the buckle clip is

 

I used the seat belt bolt also and I have had no issues. I used one of the bolts for the center belt.

 

Seats belt bolts are generally covered in locktite, so not the best option, but not the worst. 50/50 odds with it not having any problems.

 

i used the bolt that the back of the seat attached to in the trunk off to the drivers side
hooked it all up and ZERO hum
perfection
ill post some pics
but i am happy with it

 

I've got a small amp going under the passenger seat. Is there any problem grounding it and the headunit to the BCM ground under the center console? I figure it's got to be a decent ground already; I just don't want to risk messing up the BCM somehow.

 

I grounded mine to the Seat itself. There are 4 bolts that bolt the seat down to the chassis and I used that, just sand it down and wala wala bing bang

 

I've got mine in the trunk, so I grounded it to a strut mount bolt. Kinda a pain to get back there, but it works nicely.

 

Pearl96max is right about junk covering the seat belt bolt sometimes. Perry has a good page on battery and amp grounds here:

http://www.bcae1.com/battgrnd.htm

 

Is the braided ground strap to the vehicle chassis necessary when upgrading your system? or Is just the short ground wire enough from the neg of the battery to the chassis? I know it says to use both but Im just curious to what others are doing.

 

Man I love that site! I wish everyone would start their search there.

 

Only noobs ground there amps anymore.

 

So what do you do with yours?

 

I agree...

 

If you don't know, I won't explain. It's just too complicated.

 

I grounded mine to one of the bolts on the front seats as my amps are under there. Just made sure that I did a good job sanding down the contact points......guess I am still a noob

 

LMAO

 

Juan! Whats up man??


Yes you are a noobskate.

 

That's some FU repugnant $H!t. Is there somewhere we can go look it up? So that the rest of us can be educated and informed like you.

 

Yea www.wikipedia.com....................

 

Says the guy with 4Awg going into 0Awg, then for ground a distro block to go to one amp !

 

Same ole good stuff....been pretty busy with work and the family as of late.

 

That fat raptor wire is really 4 awg didn't have any connecters to fit the bolt on the ground, that was the only alternative at the time

 

blah,blah blah ..

 

Thanks, I guess. I can only hope to be as knowledgeable as you one day.