Car stereo
Car stereo
Quoted and installed in the same shop. Detail for this work lives on LA Car Beats.
Apple CarPlay Radio Installation
Wireless and wired Apple CarPlay fitted to cars that never came with it. Your steering wheel controls, reversing camera and factory warning chimes all keep working. We use the dash kit, harness and antenna adapter your specific vehicle needs. Priced per vehicle, never flat.
Android Auto Radio Installation
Android Auto head units installed with the correct dash kit and harness, so phone integration, maps and voice control work properly from the first drive. Steering wheel buttons and reverse camera retained. 20+ years on the same street.
Double DIN Car Stereo Installation
Double DIN touchscreen fitted with the dash kit, harness and antenna adapter your car needs. Steering wheel controls, reversing camera and factory chimes all keep working. Dash comes apart properly and goes back with no broken clips.
Single DIN Car Stereo Installation
Single DIN head unit with the correct dash kit and harness, for dash openings that will not take a double DIN. Factory wiring adapted rather than cut, so nothing is permanent that should not be.
Car Stereo Installation
Stereo installation for vehicles outside the standard single and double DIN fits, including custom dash work and older cars that need fabrication to take a modern unit. Car stereo installation, serving Los Angeles, the South Bay, Long Beach and Orange County.
Maestro iDatalink Module Installation
The Maestro iDatalink module keeps your climate controls, steering wheel buttons and factory vehicle data live on the new screen, including service and maintenance readouts. This is what stops an aftermarket radio from costing you features you paid for.
Stinger Horizon 10-Inch Radio Retrofit (Dodge & Chrysler)
The Stinger Horizon 10-inch floating touchscreen retrofitted into Dodge and Chrysler dashes, plus other makes. A big-screen upgrade that looks factory, without cutting the dash apart. Keeps factory controls through iDatalink integration.
Factory Amplifier Bypass Installation
Cars with a factory amplifier need it bypassed or the signal summed before aftermarket gear will work properly. Done right you keep the factory screen and lose the factory bottleneck. Common on Bose, JBL and Harman factory systems.
Factory System Integration (Line Output Converter)
Factory systems with no RCA output need a line output converter, or a clean signal tapped at the factory harness, before an amplifier will work. This single step decides whether your finished system is dead silent or hums at every stoplight.
Front Door Speaker Replacement
Door panel off, adapter fitted to the vehicle, speaker mounted and sealed to the adapter so the back wave cannot cancel the front. Factory harness adapted, nothing cut that cannot be put back. Focal, Hertz, JL Audio, Alpine, JBL and Infinity.
Rear Deck Speaker Replacement
Rear deck speakers replaced and level-matched to the front stage. The rear seat has to come out to reach them, which is why this is priced as its own job rather than bundled with a door speaker install.
Tweeter Installation and Replacement
Tweeters added to a system that never had them, or a blown factory tweeter replaced. Aimed and crossed over so the top end sits up on the dash where it belongs instead of down by your knees.
Car Component Speaker Installation
Component sets installed with adapters fitted to the vehicle, speakers sealed to the adapter, and crossovers placed properly rather than dropped in the factory hole. Authorized dealer for Focal Audio, Hertz Audio, JL Audio, Alpine, Arc Audio, JBL and Infinity.
4-Channel Amplifier Installation
The most labor-intensive job on the stereo side, up to four hours. Signal taken by nine-wire jump straight off the factory harness behind the head unit rather than running new wire to every door. All four channels crossed over and balanced to the car.
5-Channel Amplifier Installation
One amplifier running your front stage, rear speakers and subwoofer. The clean way to get a full system without stacking two amps. Power wire from the battery, fuse at the battery, ground to bare metal, gains set by measurement rather than by ear.
Monoblock Bass Amplifier Installation
A dedicated mono amplifier for bass. Power wire run from the battery through the firewall grommet, in-line fuse at the battery within spec, ground sanded to bare metal, RCA routed away from the power run so the system stays silent.
Subwoofer and Enclosure Installation
Prebuilt enclosures in a wide range: single, dual, shallow and low-profile for tight trunks, fire-down and truck boxes. Subwoofer wired at the correct final impedance for the amplifier and the box secured so it does not move under load.
Under-Seat Subwoofer Installation for Trucks
Vehicle-specific under-seat enclosures for trucks including the Toyota Tacoma and Ram 1500. Real bass without losing the bed or the back seat. Wired at the correct impedance and secured so it stays put.
Full Sound System Installation (Two Amplifiers)
The complete build: one amplifier for the front stage and rear, a second for bass, with power, grounding, signal and tuning done as one system rather than bolted together. Come listen to the bass displays in the showroom first.
Bass Processor Installation
Factory head units roll the low end off before it ever reaches an amplifier. A bass restoration processor puts that signal back, so the subwoofer you paid for actually has something to work with.
Oxygen-Free Copper Wiring Upgrade
High-current systems need OFC power and ground cable to deliver what the amplifier is actually rated for. Undersized or copper-clad aluminum wire is the most common reason a big amplifier never sounds big.
Truck Backup Camera Installation
Reversing camera on a truck, wired to the reverse trigger so it comes up on its own, running to either your aftermarket head unit or the factory screen. Cable routed behind trim, not taped along the bed.
Front Camera Installation
A forward-facing camera wired into your head unit for parking and tight-clearance work. Mounted so it survives weather and car washes, with the cable concealed behind trim.
Blind Spot Camera Installation
A camera that shows the lane beside you on your screen when you signal. The cheapest real fix for a blind spot on a vehicle that never came with blind spot monitoring.
Radar Detector Installation
Radar detector hardwired and mounted properly, with the power run hidden behind the trim instead of a cable hanging down the windscreen. Cleaner, and it cannot be spotted through the glass.
Dash cameras
Dash cameras
Quoted and installed in the same shop. Detail for this work lives on LA Car Alarm.
Dash Camera Installation (Hardwired)
Camera mounted at the top of the windshield behind the mirror, out of your sightline. Cable concealed into the headliner, down the A-pillar behind trim and into the fuse box on a properly fused add-a-circuit. No wire visible, no accessory socket lost.
Rear Dash Camera Installation
Adding a rear camera channel to a dash cam you already have. Cable fished the full length of the vehicle behind interior trim and passed through the factory tailgate boot so it flexes with the door and will not chafe through.
Dash Camera Installation for SUVs, Trucks and Hatchbacks
On SUVs, trucks and hatchbacks the rear run is most of the job. The cable crosses the tailgate boot, which is the part cheap installs skip and the part that fails in three years. We do it properly. Framing verified on playback before you collect.
Dash Camera Parking Mode Setup
Hardwire kit installed so the camera keeps recording while the car is off and parked. Low-voltage cutoff set so it stops well before your battery is at risk, and impact detection sensitivity set to the vehicle.
4G LTE Connected Dash Camera Installation
LTE cameras stream live to your phone from anywhere and push a notification the moment something hits your car. Activated, paired and demonstrated before you leave. Thinkware, Momento, Stinger and Alpine.
Drone Xceed Dash Camera Installation
The Compustar Drone Xceed 4G LTE front and rear camera drops into the same DroneMobile app as your alarm and remote start. Alarm, remote start, GPS tracking and cameras in one app instead of four.
Wolfbox Mirror Dash Camera Installation
Mirror-replacement camera systems that put the rear camera view exactly where your rearview mirror was. Fitted over the factory mirror with the rear camera integrated to the display. Priced separately for sedan and SUV.
Alarms / security
Alarms / security
Quoted and installed in the same shop. Detail for this work lives on LA Car Alarm.
Car Alarm and Security Installation
Control module hidden inside the cabin where a thief cannot find it, siren mounted in the engine bay facing down, door and hood triggers wired, sensors set on your car rather than at the bench. Viper Diamond Certified installer, Compustar authorized.
1-Way Alarm System Installation (Keyless Entry, Shock Sensor, LED)
Entry-level security done properly: keyless entry, shock sensor and flashing LED deterrent, brain concealed and siren mounted away from heat. A solid first layer if you park on the street. Sensitivity set on your car so it ignores passing trucks.
Viper Alarm Installation
Viper authorized dealer for over fifteen years and a Diamond Certified installer, which is Viper's top tier. The current range: 3103, 3108V, 3308, 5308V and 5908V. Two shops can sell the same Viper and you get two different cars. The install is the difference.
Viper 3108V Alarm and Ignition Kill Installation
Our most requested Viper. Two remotes plus an ignition kill, so the car will not crank without your remote physically present. Upgradeable later with the VSM550 SmartStart module for full smartphone control.
Viper 5908V Alarm with Remote Start Installation
Viper's top tier. One-mile two-way paging so the remote tells you the alarm went off, plus remote start and SmartStart smartphone upgrade path. Installed by a Viper Diamond Certified shop.
Viper 5308V Alarm with Remote Start and Pager
Remote start plus two-way pager confirmation in one system. You get a warm car in winter, a cool one in August, and the remote confirms the car actually did what you asked.
Compustar Alarm Installation
Compustar authorized dealer. The CS930-S one-way, the 8910 pager alarm and the 8920 pager alarm with remote start. Compustar is the answer on Jeep, Dodge and Chrysler, where the theft method is specific and so is the fix.
Compustar T13 Alarm with Proximity Lock and Unlock
The T13 bundle: shock, glass break and tilt sensors, DroneMobile smartphone control, ignition kill, two remotes and proximity unlocking. The car locks as you walk away and unlocks as you walk up, hands full, without touching a button.
Remote Start Installation
Remote start is not a plug-in. We install the vehicle-specific DB3 bypass module the manufacturer intends, program it to your car, and wire every safety lockout: brake shutdown, hood-open and in-gear. Cold and warm start cycles tested before handover.
Ignition Kill and Starter Kill Installation
An alarm makes noise. A starter kill means the car does not move. The starter circuit is interrupted through the security module and the cut point concealed inside the factory loom, so it cannot be found and bypassed in the seconds a thief has.
Jeep, Dodge and Chrysler Anti-Theft Installation
Jeeps, Chargers, Challengers and Rams have a known relay-attack and code-grab weakness: a thief clones the signal and drives off without breaking anything. A T-harness starter kill ends it. The car will not crank without your remote present.
Toyota, Kia and Honda Anti-Theft Installation
Toyota, Kia and Honda are among the most stolen vehicles in Los Angeles. Same conversation, same solution: a properly hidden alarm module and an ignition kill buried in the factory harness rather than hanging under the dash.
GPS Vehicle Tracker Installation
Live GPS tracking fitted where a thief will not find it, so you can see where the car is from your phone and recover it if it moves. Available on both Compustar DroneMobile and Viper SmartStart systems.
DroneMobile Smartphone Control Installation
DroneMobile puts the car on your phone from anywhere: lock, unlock, remote start and live location. Add a Drone Xceed dash camera later and it lives in the same app. Walked through with you before you leave.
Viper SmartStart VSM550 Installation
The VSM550 SmartStart module adds smartphone control to a Viper system: lock, unlock, remote start and vehicle location from anywhere with signal. Retrofits to the 3108V and 5908V.
Power Door Lock Actuator Installation
For vehicles with manual locks or dead power locks. Actuator motor mounted in the door and linked to the lock rod, relay pack wired so the alarm can lock and unlock, wiring passed through the door boot so it survives opening and closing. Priced per door.
Shock, Tilt and Glass Break Sensor Installation
Tilt sensors for wheel and tow protection, glass break sensors, and shock sensors set on your car in your street rather than at the bench. A sensor set at the bench either screams at passing trucks or gets turned down until it does nothing.
Window tint
Window tint
Quoted and installed in the same shop. Detail for this work lives on LA Car Tint.
3M Ceramic IR Window Tint
3M Ceramic IR rejects infrared, the part of sunlight you actually feel, with no metal layer, so keyless entry, GPS, tire pressure sensors and radio all keep working normally.
Solar Ceramic Window Tint
Ceramic film at a lower price than Ceramic IR, with real heat rejection and no signal interference. The value option when full IR is not in the budget.
Hand-Cut Window Tint
Film cut by hand on a glass board rather than pulled off a plotter pattern. That is how you get a clean edge on curved and frameless glass, which is most of what makes a tint job look right or look cheap.
3M Front Window Tint with Micro Edging (2 Windows)
3M film on the two front windows, hand-cut and micro-edged so it runs clean to the very edge of the glass. California allows 70% VLT up front and we install to that limit, not past it, so your car passes.
Two-Door Coupe Window Tint with Micro Edging
Full 3M tint on a two-door coupe, hand-cut on a glass board and micro-edged. Coupe glass is longer and more curved than a sedan's and takes longer to do cleanly, which is why it is priced as its own job.
Full Vehicle Window Tint
Every window done in one appointment. Fronts installed to the California 70% VLT limit, rear doors and back glass as dark as you want them, since California places no restriction behind the driver.
California Legal Front Window Tint (70% VLT)
California allows 70% VLT on the two front windows. We install to that limit rather than past it, so you get the heat rejection without the ticket. Hand-cut and micro-edged.
Windshield Tint and IR Film
Clear and light IR film on the windshield, the largest piece of glass in the car and the one letting in most of the heat. Ceramic, so nothing interferes with your sensors, toll tag or radio.
Tesla Window Tint
Tesla glass is its own problem: frameless doors at a compound angle, an oversized windshield and a panoramic roof. Hand-cut on a board because a plotter pattern will not sit right on that glass. Model 3, Y, S, X and Cybertruck.
Harley / bagger
Harley / bagger
Quoted and installed in the same shop. Detail for this work lives on AMS Pods.
Harley-Davidson Stereo Installation
Harley stereo upgrades built for the road, not the driveway. Loud enough to hear clearly at 70 mph without turning to distortion, with everything chosen to survive vibration, heat and weather. Building bagger audio since 2003.
Road Glide Stereo and Speaker Installation
Road Glide audio from a fairing speaker upgrade through to a full amplified build. The fairing speakers sit in fiberglass and moving air, which is a completely different problem from a car cabin and is solved with different parts.
Street Glide Stereo and Speaker Installation
Street Glide head units, fairing speakers, lid speakers and amplifiers. Built to stay clear at highway speed with the amplifier mounted where it survives vibration and weather rather than where it happens to fit.
Road King Sound System Installation
Road Kings have no fairing to build into, so the system has to go elsewhere. Usually that means AMS Pods on the crash bars plus speakers in the bags. Full sound systems for Road King.
AMS Pods Crash Bar Speaker Pods
Our own fiberglass speaker pods, built in-house since 2003 and mounted to the crash bars. Made to fit the bike rather than adapted to it. The reason Road King owners come to us specifically.
Saddlebag Speaker Installation
Speakers installed into the saddlebags themselves, which is where the low end has to come from on a bagger. Built and sealed so the bags still work as bags and the speakers survive the weather.
Full Bagger Sound System
The complete bagger build: fairing speakers, crash bar pods, saddlebag speakers and amplifiers, powered and tuned as one system. Hertz Neo is what we recommend. Road Glide, Street Glide, Road King and Softail.
Brands
Brands
Quoted and installed in the same shop. Detail for this work lives on LA Car Beats.
Pioneer CarPlay and Android Auto Stereo Installation
Authorized Pioneer dealer. Pioneer CarPlay and Android Auto receivers installed with the dash kit, harness and antenna adapter your vehicle needs, so your steering wheel controls, chimes and reversing camera all keep working.
Kenwood CarPlay and Android Auto Stereo Installation
Authorized Kenwood dealer. Kenwood CarPlay and Android Auto receivers, including wireless models, installed and integrated so you keep your factory steering wheel buttons, warning chimes and reverse camera.
Alpine Car Stereo Installation
Authorized Alpine dealer. Alpine head units and floating-screen systems fitted with the correct dash kit and harness for your vehicle, integrated so nothing factory stops working.
Sony Car Stereo Installation
Authorized Sony dealer. Sony CarPlay and Android Auto receivers installed and integrated with your factory controls, cameras and chimes. Fitted properly, with the dash back together and no broken clips.
JVC CarPlay and Android Auto Stereo Installation
Authorized JVC dealer. JVC CarPlay and Android Auto receivers fitted with the right dash kit and harness for your car, so the phone integration works from the first drive.
JL Audio Amplifier Installation
Authorized JL Audio dealer. JL Audio amplifiers wired, fused, mounted and set for the system they are actually driving. Power from the battery through the firewall, ground sanded to bare metal, gains set by measurement rather than by ear.
JL Audio Subwoofer Installation
Authorized JL Audio dealer. JL Audio subwoofers in prebuilt enclosures sized to the vehicle, wired at the correct final impedance for the amplifier and secured so the box does not move under load.
Alpine Amplifier Installation
Authorized Alpine dealer. Alpine amplifiers installed, wired and set for the speakers and subwoofer they are driving, with power, fusing and grounding done to spec so the amp delivers what it is rated for.
DB Drive Amplifier and Subwoofer Installation
Authorized DB Drive dealer. DB Drive amplifiers and subwoofers installed and tuned. Come feel the bass displays running in the showroom, decide how hard you actually want it, and we build the package around that.
Arc Audio Amplifier and Processor Installation
Authorized Arc Audio dealer. Arc Audio amplifiers and processors installed and tuned to the vehicle, for customers chasing sound quality rather than just volume.
AudioControl DSP and Line Output Converter Installation
Authorized AudioControl dealer. AudioControl line output converters and DSP processors pull a clean signal out of a factory system and let the car be tuned properly. This is the piece that makes factory integration actually sound right.
Hertz Audio Speaker and Amplifier Installation
Authorized Hertz Audio dealer. Hertz speakers, component sets and amplifiers for cars and for Harley baggers. Hertz Neo is what we recommend on bagger builds, where the speaker has to survive weather and moving air.
JBL and Infinity Speaker Installation
Authorized JBL and Infinity dealer. JBL and Infinity speakers and component sets installed with adapters fitted to the vehicle and sealed properly. A straightforward, well-priced upgrade over factory paper speakers.
Focal Audio Speaker Installation
Authorized Focal dealer. Focal component sets installed with adapters fitted to the vehicle and the speaker sealed to the adapter, which is what lets a Focal set actually sound like one instead of like an expensive factory speaker.