InstallGear 4 Gauge Amp Wiring Kit - 17ft Amplifier Subwoofer Wiring Kit with True Spec Cables - Power Soft Touch Wire Set for Car Audio Installation - Blue

Ok so let's remember this is a cheap freaking kit. $20 doesn't buy you a good meal these days so please keep this in mind. This kit is not competition grade at all, the wire is CCA meaning the actual core is made of aluminum which as we all know is not as conductive as copper. Aluminum dispels heat quickly and conducts better than standard steel. Aluminum is also not nearly as reactive as copper so over time this will hold up better to corrosion. These are true 4 gauge wires meaning lots of metal little rubber. For the money you will not get a better wire. The speaker wire is good for lower power setups, it is 12 gauge so it isnt for a real 2-3kw system. For 800-1200 watts this will work great. To sum up this note is for people building real systems the 5kw "insert cheap brand" amp you are buying for $120 isnt going to put out 5k more like 800-1200 watts if you're lucky. As for the equipment, the connectors aren't the best but with some work they will do fine. The fuse is 120w if you can blow that with your system you either need to invest more in your wiring or find your short. The rca cables are pretty generic but I've had no distortion issues. To sum up the whole review for people who hate to read. This is a great, phenomenal, wonderful kit for 20-30 bucks. If you are building a single sub kit in your car or just installing a few subs on a lower end amp this kit will do the job with no issues. If you are building a 1-2k dollar system in your car with a good high wattage amp that puts out proven numbers please invest in a real copper kit preferably 0 gauge. My two cents for what they are worth to help those of you confused as to why people are putting 1 star and 5 star reviews, they likely dont care that this is a $20 kit they want to spend 20 and get $200 worth of equipment.

For the price, this kit is nice. The quality is fine and I am getting absolutely no "engine noise" from my system using this kit, and that's one of the most important things to me. Make sure you do a good job attaching the ground wire, that's the one that messes a lot of first time installers up. If you install it on a painted part of the car, it may introduce noise. I always grind down the area I'm mounting the ground to, usually around a seat bolt or something fairly strong so it's a nice solid connection. All the connectors are fine, you will need a crimp tool or a pliers to crimp them. The RCA cables are pretty good quality, and the remote wire is small but works well. Fuse holder is nice, easy to connect and mount. I think the speaker wire is a little small if you are powering a subwoofer, but it works. You can double it up which effectively lowers the gauge by one level (every lower gauge is double the thickness of the previous gauge). This will help reduce resistance which puts less strain on your amp and can result in better sound with less distortion. Anyway, this is a good wiring kit. Price is nice, quality is fine. I'm happy with it.

This is not OFC wire. This is CCA wire, copper clad aluminum. OFC stands for oxygen free copper. CCA wire will not handle the amperage OFC wire will. You can pull about 85 amps through this 4 gauge CCA wire. If your amp has a bigger fuse than 85 amps, then you want to make sure you go to zero gauge. That being said the quality of the components is very nice. I didn't care for the fuse block that came with it, I swapped it out for watertight circuit breaker, but that was just my preference. It doesn't come with enough speaker wire to run an entire system, but there is enough speaker wire to run to a sub box. I did not know when I purchased this it was CCA wire. I was in the car audio 20 years ago and you didn't see CCA wire back then. It was all copper. That being said it will do the job I needed to do just fine. I'm running a very modest system, I just added on to the factory radio to get a little bit better sound. I will eventually upgrade to zero gauge copper wire probably during the summer. But the quality of everything is pretty good I can't complain.

I'm not going to lie, this isn't the best kit out there. In fact, far from. From what I can gather, this kit is cheap because it is using CCA (copper clad aluminium) wiring, and not OFC (oxygen-free copper). As such, the wire in this kit will NOT handle the same amount of electrical load as a 4 AWG OFC cable. That being said, for having CCA wire, this kit is definitely a steal at it's current price (~20 when I bought it vs ~60 for OFC). It has everything you'll need to get started, and it's all good enough to be serviceable. The selling point here, though, is the gauge of the wire. Most CCA kits are very much undersized, and with a larger insulator in order to give off the appearance of true 4 gauge. But the wire in this kit appears to be actual 4 gauge (compared to a 4 gauge battery cable I had laying around). Because of this, there should be no doubt of what this kit can power. As a general rule, CCA should always be treated as being as capable as its 2 gauge lower OFC counterpart. This means that this particular 4 gauge CCA cable is more along the lines of a 6 gauge OFC cable. This means it should be able to power around 600 watts RMS without too much trouble. Going beyond this, however, may cause the CCA cable to overheat and begin to melt (please see 6/17/18 update below). For me, I have it powering around 376 watts RMS across two amps (one for two 12" Aplines and a smaller one for my front door speakers). The wire does not get warm to the touch, even after running my system up quite loud over a decent period of time (~1 to 2 hours). Another thing to keep in mind is that CCA has a tendency to corrode MUCH quicker than OFC. In fact, I've seen some of my CCA wire that I used for other projects (not the wire in this particular kit) corrode in less than a year. As such, I recommend treating connections with dielectric grease, which will help to protect the connections from corrosion. Do this, at least under the hood where it is more prone to outside elements, and you should be fine. Just keep an eye on it. Another thing to keep in mind is that the fuse holder in this kit is NOT water proof. So do not put it in an area that is likely to get wet, and ensure that you use dielectric grease on the connections to the fuse. Overall, this kit is too good to pass up, so long as you understand its limitations and that you get what you pay for. This is NOT a premium kit. I realize there is a bad stigma against CCA, but, if you stay within the limitations of the CCA wire, it's really hard to go wrong. AFTERTHOUGHT: The speaker wire included with this kit is pretty junky looking, in my opinion. I used it myself, but only because I know I'm not going to put more than 38 watts RMS through them (probably less than that even). Fine for a small external amp for door speakers. Not so much recommended for subwoofers capable of 100+ watts RMS. UPDATE 6/17/18: So, I went a little bit overboard recently, and wound up adding two more 12" subwoofers, in addition to the two Alpines I already had, for a total of four 12s. In order to power all of this sufficiently, I decided to get a decent budget amp from Rockville ( Rockville dB45 3200 Watt/1600w RMS 4 Channel Amplifier Car Stereo Amp, Loud!! ). Running them bridged should push, at most, 800 RMS, which exceeds what I recommended above. To add a little more salt, I also upgraded the front amplifier for my doors to a budget 2-channel that I picked up from WalMart (Dual XPR82D). It has a CEA rating of 80 watts RMS, per channel. So, if I understand correctly, this means it is pushing up to 160 RMS between my two door speakers (I have the gain all the way up, with no distortion). After doing the math, it would appear that I am running up to 960 RMS, give or take depending on listening volume. Probably a smidge less, but definitely more than the 600 I recommended earlier. The point of this update is to share that I've yet to feel my power wire so much as get warm, and I haven't changed it out, or even added to it. Does this mean that I changed my recommendation? Well, no. After all, I am running a secondary battery specifically made for car audio. I'm no engineer, but I'm guessing that this battery could be helping to keep the load off the main wire during peak power usage from my amps, considering it has a lower resistance and is closer to my amps. Take this update with a grain of salt. I just wanted to share my positive experience thus far. Completely on you if you choose to take the same risk and start some kind of fire by accident. I will update if my experience changes. ANOTHER UPDATE 3/25/19: I have since changed my setup a little bit. Life circumstances changed and, as a result, the space I need in my vehicle also changed. Due to this change, I went down to a single amp, and a single 12" Alpine. Still rocking the Rockville, but it's now powering my entire sound system (two 6x9 doors and the 12). The only thing that hasn't seen a major change in nearly a year is the power wire. It is still holding up fantastically. It has yet to get warm, or cause any noticeable issues with my setup. I still check it once in awhile to ensure it hasn't corroded. Luckily, the dielectric grease trick appears to be working, as I've yet to see any signs of corrosion. I'll update this review again if anything negative happens with the power wire down the line. If that update never comes, then it's safe to assume that the wire remained in good condition for as long as I needed it.

The kit comes with everything you need to install the amp. With one exception, there are a few connectors that you will need to buy unless you want to go old school and just put the wires between the little squeeze plate on the amp and tighten them down. It comes with, a two channel RCA cable that will reach all the way to your trunk if necessary to plug in the amp. You will need to buy a four channel RCA cable so you can hook up your rear speakers and your front door speakers. All in all, it was an absolutely great value. It saved me quite a bit of money versus buying it from an audio store. I would recommend this product to anyone installing an amp.

Let me start with this amp kit. I ordered this for my car and the amp I'm using wouldn't work with a 1 gage amp so over I'm happy and the kit came with everything I needed for my system and it only took me a few hrs to install it and this product isn't bad at all and holding up pretty good so far and I've bought this for my last vehicle so I'm pleased with this product and I ordered amp kit for my brother's vehicle too and he was pleased with this product and the value of this product is very good and quality of this product is good too. I'm running a 1200 watt rockford fosgate prime amp and one 12" kicker solo bric sub and my brother is running 2 10" kicker subwoofer and 1200 watt amp in his vehicle.

Third time purchasing an InstallGear amp kit for sound system integration. Obviously it's good stuff because I keep coming back. I can't believe how marked up amp kits are in the stores. It's ridiculous. I have gotten compliments from my installers on my finding this good of a kit for the money I paid. The first one I bought went in my 2016 BMW Z4 Sdrive35i M Sport to integrate a 600W JL Audio Amp and 10" JL Audio low profile sub to the factory DIRAC premium audio system via an aftermarket custom harness, second time in a 2004 Nissan Pathfinder I had as a third vehicle in which I swapped the head unit for a Kenwood and added a 300w Kicker sub\amp combo to the factory Bose system (sounded like crap, but for sure not the amp kit's fault, LOL!), and the most recently in a 2007 Lexus GX 470 in which I added a 1000W JBL amp (running RMS at 500w) and a 1000w Infinity Kappa sub integrated into the factory Mark Levinson sound system via an Audio Control LC2i. Not a single issue with any of these installs.

a must when installing an amp

Perfect length. Had lots of slack running the wire from the engine bay battery, through side panels and into the trunk of a 06 Corolla. All of the wire is good quality. Came with every thing needed, even lots of extra speaker wire! Nice kit for only $30 👍

Kit completo para la instalacion de un solo amplificador, sus terminales mejoran la calidad del trabajo durante la instalacion

Ok

Great. Did the job! Everything is working fine

Soo happy with this install kit! Was more than enough to run wires in my little Versa. Very happy with quality and length of the cords etc. Very easy to use.