Greetings fellow ICE merchants:D

Well at last my new sound system is operational after overcoming some interesting challenges.

I hope the following threads will help all of those of you who are thinking about installing a complete ICE system in your Octavia.

Mine is a 2001 model RS and I wanted to undertake a complete ground up ICE install. Interestingly there are not at this point too many people on Briskoda who have done this, so information on how to do it was a little sketchy. Fortunately my two friends Rich and Al are expertsin all things ICE.

So the adventure began on Friday evening just gone.............with a pile of new kit, which is as follows:

1. Front Speakers - Crystal Mobile Sound CSC60S 6.5" Midrange Nickel plated cones (150 watt power handling) with chrome plated bullet dust cap

2. Tweeters - 1" (Neodymium magnet)

3. Dedicated 12dB/octave crossover network with 3dB tweeter attenuation

4. JL Audio W6 12" Sub and Acoustic cabinet

5. Vibe 4 channel 800 watt floor mounted amp with 2 active mosfets

6. Kenwood KRC 794 CD/Cassette Head Unit

7. Kenwood KDC C719 10 Disc Multi changer

8. 5 rolls of Aquaseal Bitumenised Waterproofing tape (for sound deadening - particularly important in mr rattly Octavia)

9. 2.8 meters of Maplin Box Cover for sub and false floor

10. 1 can of spray glue

11. Autoleads Black Chrome Amplifier and speaker wiring kit (PT NO AUEG9-AMP20) 2 meters of zero point power cable

12. 1 Manual Control Bass Control unit (for adjusting bass bias and vol level)

13. 2 Meters RCA Cable for Bass Control Unit

14. by 3 meters of MDF

15. 1 Staple Gun

16. 1 Hot Glue gun

17. 24 bruised and scraped knuckles

18. 18 bottles of Becks Beer

19. 3 lots of Kentucky fried chicken

You don't necessarily need items no 17-20 but it might help!

:cheers:

We started on Friday night and finished it all by 21.30hrs Sunday evening (with a few breaks in between)

Part 2 will tell you more about what happened next..................

dont forget the pictures:D

Andre - on the edge of my seat already!

Will be particularly interested to hear about cable runs (esp. for speaker wire and CD changer

controls). Oh, and how you managed to get the power cable through the bulkhead!

Rob.

We need pictures!!! Especially from points 18 & 19!

I'm going to do this install as well .......................well perhaps not numbers 1-17 .................but 18 and 19 sound good to me in fact sod number 19 , I'll just go with 18 .

1-17 are much easier if you dont do 18-19 till last;)