hi guys, i need help. what can i do to prevent this? my rearview just keeps falling and falling when the bass hits and i only have 1 10iin jl w6. any help would be great i have a 97 civic

 

just leave it off, thats what I had to do.

 

i have a 96 civic with 2 type s 10's, i have the same problem, and never found a solution. Somebody once told me to jam paper into the joint, but i never figured out what they meant

 

thats just funny, mine is just decoration now, when my bass hits all the headlights become circles..its funny, so i dont use it, but since i turned up my amp, my side mirrors are starting to become like the rearview...

 

so anyone with any tips on preventing this???

 

turn the bass down maybe

 

what I did was I got some tin foil gum wrapper things and just bunched them all together and pointed the rear-view up, jammed the foil in there and squished it into place when I re-adjusted the mirror back down....If that doesnt make sense then oh well...I tried :D

 

I have the same exact problem I find turning down the bass fixes it.

 

other than the above, all you can do is glue

-Rage

 

I've got a few 12's and I had this problem.. heres what I did..
I took the rear view mirror off (held on by 3 philips screws under a cover).. then i flipped it over and pryed off the back cover from the arm of the rear view.. this will expose to you a hex screw, a metal plate, and a ball joint (which the rear view mirror pivots on)...

I got a bunch of SMALL pieces of cardboard (like you'd find on packaging of say a cracker box, a box of staples, you know the thin cardboard packaging... ).. yes I know.. it sounds ghetto but hey.. at least when my bass hits I'm not looking at a reflection of my chest.. then when it hits again.. I'm not looking at a reflection of my crotch haha..

anyway what you do is undo the hex screw and take off the plate... now where the plate contacts that ball joint... put some pieces of SMALL cardboard between the plate and the ball joint.. now tigthen it up real good and put back the rear cover.. then mount the rear view back on the headliner and your good to go...

it'll be kind of a b*tch if more than 1 person (of different heights) drives this car cuz the mirror will now be tight/hard to move/adjust... but since I'm the only driver of my car its not biggie.. the rear view mirror will be real tight and hard to adjust... but like I said.. since I'm the only driver.. I never change/move the position.. so its no biggie.. it will be way harder to move/adjust than before.. but it stays in place when the bass hits.. it will still kind of resonate/vibrate (like the side view mirrors).. but the position of the mirror doesn't change much if any...

this is what I did.. its worked for like 2 years.. yes its really ghetto but oh well it works.. and no one see's what you did (since the cardboard is behind the cover)... I also have a broadway 270mm mirror clipped on there (more weight) and it still doesn't really change positions

 

doesnt that mean your going deaf?

 

if you mean the whole assembly like the mirroe and metal plate on the winseld i cant help you buy if the metal plate stays on just put some dynamate between the mirror and the plate..... it helps stop the vibration some and makes it stick really well i had 3 eclipse 10's in my hatch with the smae problem after the dynamate i haddent had any trouble