- Car audioSpeakers, amps, subs and head unitsRemote startersAuthorised Compustar dealerDash camsHardwired, with parking mode set upCarPlay & Android AutoAdapters or a new head unitAmbient lightingInterior and accent lightingHeadlight upgradesLED upgrades where the housing suits itAuto electricalFaults traced, not guessed atSecurity systemsAlarms and immobilisers, fitted
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Car audio, remote starters
and dash cams in Calgary
A 12-volt installation shop in northeast Calgary. Everything we fit is wired in behind the trim and tested before you drive away — not taped to the glass and left to rattle loose by February.
#129 10985 38 St NE, Calgary · Monday to Saturday, 10:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Same-day on most jobs
Drop it off, collect the same day
Booked online
Choose your own time slot
Authorised Compustar dealer
Genuine, warrantied, supported
Priced per vehicle
Confirmed before we start work
Services
What we install
These six fill the bay most weeks. If what you’re after isn’t here, it’s probably still something we do — call and ask.
Speakers, amplifiers, subwoofers and head units, sized and powered for the car you actually drive. We fit component and coaxial sets in the common sizes — 6.5, 6×9, 5.25, 6×8 and 5×7 — on adapter rings, so nothing is hacked into the door.
Quoted per vehicle
We’re an authorised Compustar dealer, and we fit Fortin and iDatastart too — onto your vehicle’s own data bus, so the factory security stays intact. Push-to-start and standard key vehicles both work. Some cars need an extra bypass module, and we confirm that for your year and model before you book.
Quoted per vehicle
Dash cam installation done properly: hardwired to a fuse with a voltage cut-off, so parking mode works and the battery still cranks in January. Front only, front and rear, or full 4K dual channel. We fit backup and reverse cameras into factory screens too.
FineVu stocked · any brand fitted
Wireless adapters for factory screens, or a new head unit where the factory system won’t take one. If your car already does wired CarPlay an adapter is a short job. If it has no screen at all it needs a head unit, a dash kit and a harness.
Quoted per vehicle
LED headlight upgrades, interior and ambient lighting, underglow and accent work. Headlight and fog bulb upgrades, footwell and door lighting, and colour-changing kits you control from your phone.
Quoted per vehicle
Check engine and ABS lights, sensors, ECU faults and wiring problems traced properly rather than guessed at. Parasitic battery drains, no-start faults, and aftermarket wiring somebody else left behind. We diagnose before we quote.
Diagnostic first
Featured brand
Why we put FineVu on the shelf
We stock it because of what doesn’t come back. Dash cams fail here for predictable reasons — summer heat, winter cold, a battery cooking on a dashboard in July — and these have held up better than most of what we’ve fitted. The rest of the argument is the spec.
- Supercapacitor, not a lithium battery — it survives heat and cold that kill battery-based cameras
- Power-saving parking mode draws 0.06 W, against 4.8 W in normal parking mode
- Low-voltage cut-off, plus heat monitoring that shuts it down before a summer cabin cooks it
- Sony STARVIS sensor with HDR and auto night vision, so plates stay legible
- Built-in GPS and Wi‑Fi to your phone, 128 GB card included
- Three-year warranty — on the GX4K, 4K front and 1080p rear
What we stock
What we stock
You can buy any of these online. What you can’t buy online is someone wiring it into your car properly, and that’s usually what decides whether it still works in two years.
Sony STARVIS sensor, supercapacitor, 128 GB card and a three-year warranty. The one we fit most.
4K front, 1080p rear
Dual QHD with night vision and AI damage detection. Wi‑Fi to the app.
QHD front and rear
Dual-channel recording in a compact body. A straightforward two-camera setup.
Front and rear
Check the car from your phone while you’re away from it. 64 GB storage.
Cloud connected
Compact, non-LCD, built-in Wi‑Fi and GPS. The sensible starting point.
Front only, QHD
Rotatable single-DIN and universal screens, wireless CarPlay and Android Auto.
Single-DIN and 9/10 inch
Why it lasts
Good equipment only performs as well as the install behind it.
A camera taped to the glass with a cable to the lighter socket gets unplugged, blocks your view and rattles loose by February. The same camera hardwired into a fuse, tucked behind the trim and set up with a sensible voltage cut-off is still quietly recording in three years.
That’s the part we’re actually selling, and it’s the same job whichever brand you bring us.
Brands
Brands we fit
Every major brand, including gear you bought yourself — bring it in and we’ll fit it properly rather than talk you into a different box. Two we go further on: FineVu we stock, and we’re an authorised Compustar dealer.
Stereos and CarPlay head units
PioneerKenwoodSonyAlpine
Speakers, subwoofers and amplifiers
JL AudioFocalHertzRockford FosgateKickerJBLInfinityMemphisSkarSoundstreamDS18
Dash cams
FineVu — stocked
GarminThinkwareBlackVueViofoNextbaseMomentoVantrue70maiRoveRedtigerWolfboxNexarCobraFitCamX
Remote starters
Compustar — authorised dealer
FortiniDatastartiDatalink bypass
Sound upgrades
Car audio and sound upgrades
Sound quality comes from the order of the work, not the price of the box. Deaden the door first, mount the speaker on a proper ring, run it clean power, then set the gains. Skip a step and the money you spent on the next one is wasted.
- SpeakersComponent and coaxial, in the sizes that fit your doors, on adapter rings rather than cut into bare metal.
- Subwoofers and ampsWe build custom enclosures, so the box is made for your vehicle and the space you’re willing to give up, not bought off a shelf and made to fit. Amplifier fused at the battery, power and signal down opposite sides of the car.
- Head unitsSingle-DIN, double-DIN and floating screens, with the kit and harness that make them fit properly.
- DeadeningPart of a sound upgrade, not a separate job. Doors, floor and trunk — done before the speakers, because that’s what makes them worth buying.
- TuningGains set properly, crossovers where they belong, levels balanced. Included with every system we build, not an extra.
- What it sounds likeVocals you can place, detail that holds together at volume, and bass that’s tight rather than boomy. We tune by ear in the car, because that’s where you’ll be listening to it.
About the shop
About the shop
We’re on 38 Street NE, and most jobs are done the same day you drop the car off.
RC Car Entertainment is a car audio and 12-volt installation shop in northeast Calgary. We handle car stereo installation, subwoofers and amplifiers, remote starter installation, dashcam installation and backup cameras, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, LED headlight upgrades, decorative and ambient lighting, sound upgrades and deadening, and vehicle security systems, and we diagnose the electrical faults other shops would rather not chase.
Most of what we do is installation rather than retail. A speaker set that costs twice as much won’t sound better bolted to bare metal through a door full of open service holes, and a dash camera is only as good as the fuse it’s wired into. That’s where the difference actually gets made, so that’s where the time goes.
If you already own the equipment — bought online, from another shop, or it came with the car — bring it in. We’d rather fit your kit properly than talk you into a different box. And where the honest answer is that a modification isn’t worth doing on your vehicle, we’ll say that too.
Everything is quoted for your specific year, make and model before any work starts, because half of what is possible on a car is decided by the car. See everything we do, browse what we stock, or read the questions we get asked most.
Wiring you never see
Every cable we run goes behind the trim and into the factory routing. Nothing hangs under the dash, nothing crosses an airbag, and nothing is left to work loose over a Calgary winter.
On a remote starter that means a T-harness into the factory connector rather than cut and taped joins. Pull the system out years later and the car is as it left the factory.
Power that holds up at −30
Parking mode on a dash cam, an amplifier under the seat and a remote starter all draw current with the engine off. Each gets a proper supply with a fuse and, where it matters, a voltage cut-off.
Done properly your camera keeps watching in a parking lot and the car still cranks in the morning. Done badly is why people believe dash cams kill batteries.
The order of operations
Deadening before speakers. Diagnosis before parts. Vehicle check before a quote. Doing these in the wrong sequence is how people pay twice and still aren’t happy with the result.
It’s also why we ask for your year, make and model in the first sentence, rather than quoting a generic price and revising it once the car is on the ramp.
How a job goes
How a booking works
Here’s what actually happens when you book, start to finish.
01
You tell us the car
Year, make and model. Half of what is possible is decided by the vehicle, so we start there.
02
We quote that vehicle
Not a generic number. Some cars need an extra module or a bypass, and you hear that before you book.
03
We fit it out of sight
Wiring run behind the trim, connections made properly, nothing left hanging under the dash.
04
We show you it working
We walk you through it once before you leave, so you’re not reading a manual in the parking lot.
Remote starters
Start the car from inside the house
Calgary winters are why most people call us. As an authorised Compustar dealer we fit genuine, warrantied systems, and we work with Fortin and iDatastart as well — all onto the vehicle’s own data bus, so nothing gets spliced that shouldn’t be.
Range and phone control are separate choices — add either now, or later.
- RangeStandard covers a house and its driveway. Long range reaches an apartment block, an office car park, or two floors up.
- Phone controlStart it from anywhere with signal, and see that it actually started. Add it at the fitting, or come back for it later.
- SecurityAlarm and immobiliser fitted in the same visit, so the wiring is opened up once instead of twice.
- Your vehiclePush-to-start and standard key both work. Some cars need a bypass module — we check your year and model before you book.
Every car is priced on its own. We confirm the final figure for your vehicle before we start — never after.
From the bays
Work that left the shop
Cars we’ve had in recently, and what went into them.
- 01Under-dash wiring
on a hardwired dash cam - 02Door card off,
speaker on a proper ring - 03Remote starter module
loomed into the harness - 04Custom sub enclosure
before carpeting - 05Finished dash
running CarPlay - 06Boot build
amp rack wired up - 07Ambient lighting
fitted and lit - 08The unit
from the street
What customers say
What customers say
Straight from Google, unedited. We read all of them.
Tell us the car
Get a price for your vehicle
What’s possible depends a lot on the vehicle, so we price yours rather than quoting a generic number. Send the details and we’ll come back with a real price and how long it takes.
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Before you decide
Worth reading first
Written by the people who actually do the work.
Dash cams
Why capacitor beats battery at −30, what parking mode actually needs, and which brands we see come back.
Remote starters
Push-to-start versus standard key, what a bypass module does, and why some cars cost more than others.
Car audio
The order of operations. Deadening before speakers, and what each layer in a door is actually doing.
Find us
Unit 129, 10985 38 St NE
We’re in the industrial bays off 38 Street NE in Calgary. Park in front of the unit.
- Address
- #129 10985 38 St NE
Calgary, AB T3N 1Z2 - Phone
- (368) 210-7200
- info@rccarentertainment.ca
- Hours
- Monday to Saturday, 10:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Closed Sunday
Who we see most
We’re a Calgary car audio and 12-volt shop off 38 Street NE, so the northeast communities are the ones in the bay most weeks. People drive across the city for the bigger jobs too, and in from Airdrie and Chestermere.
- Saddle Ridge
- Castleridge
- Falconridge
- Martindale
- Taradale
- Coral Springs
- Cityscape
- Redstone
- Skyview Ranch
- Cornerstone
- Airdrie
- Chestermere
Everything is fitted here rather than in your driveway. Panels come off properly, wiring gets loomed and tested, and nobody is on their back on the ice in February.
Ready when you’re
Tell us what you drive and we'll price it
Pick a slot online, or call the shop and talk it through first.
RC Car Entertainment
Car audio and 12-volt specialists in northeast Calgary. Stereos, subwoofers, remote starters, dash cams, CarPlay, lighting and auto electrical — fitted at the shop.
(368) 210-7200
info@rccarentertainment.ca
#129 10985 38 St NE
Calgary, AB T3N 1Z2
Monday to Saturday, 10:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. · Closed Sunday
