(This article was recently posted on BestCarAudio.com. We are sharing it here with their permission) Extreme Audio near Richmond has been producing face shields to help protect frontline medical staff from COVID-19. These shields work with face masks, gloves, goggles and other PPE to reduce the chances of nurses, doctors and technicians being infected while Read More…
Update Regarding COVID-19
Our team is actively working to ensure that our customers stay healthy and safe in response to the recent outbreak of COVID-19. Rigorous sanitation and disinfecting measures are being practiced in addition to our routine cleaning. This includes all common areas, surfaces, waiting room chairs, door handles, equipment and waiting rooms. Moving forward we are modifying Read More…
Extreme Audio is Proud To Announce Our 6th Annual Coats For Kids Drive
Extreme Audio is once again proud to participate in Coats for Kids, a program to generate donations of new and gently-used Winter coats for local children in need. For every customer who brings in a new or gently used winter coat for a child, Extreme Audio will offer up to a $50 discount on the Read More…
Top Reasons to Get Your Window Tinting at Extreme Audio In Midlothian
If you are in the market to get window tinting done in Midlothian or Chesterfield County, you owe it to yourself to stop by Extreme Audio. For more than 15 years, our team has been committed to giving you the best-quality window tint available at any price. 3M Makes the Finest Window Tint Available We Read More…
A Clean Environment is Key To a Successful Window Tint Install
Window tinting is one of the least expensive ways to personalize your vehicle, and Extreme Audio has been specializing in it for many years. One of the sad realities of window tinting is that it has a low cost of entry for someone wanting to start a business. What that means to you as a Read More…
Why Performance Grade Window Film Is Worth The Expense
As the weather heats up, more and more people turn to window tinting to keep their vehicles cooler in the summer. Where to go for yours? While all window tint does offer some reduction in heat, the high-performance 3M films from Extreme Audio are in a whole different league. 3M Is An Industry Leader In Read More…
Extreme Audio Named 1 of the Top 50 Mobile Enhancement Retailers in North America
Extreme Audio is pleased to announce that we have been named one of the Top 50 Mobile Electronics Retailers in the North America by Mobile Electronics magazine. Our team works very hard to be the best, and we are honored and humbled by this recognition. There are more than 4,000 mobile electronics retailers in this country, Read More…
Chesterfield – Hull St. Rd Location Coming Soon!
Extreme Audio is pleased to announce that we are expanding! Coming soon is our new store: 11507 Hull Street Rd Midlothian, VA 23112 We will be right next door to Steel Horse Harley-Davidson. For more than 15 years, Extreme Audio has been giving award-winning service to our customers in Mechanicsville, Virginia, and we are excited Read More…
Your Truck Sounds Great, Why Settle For Less On The Water?
Have you ever noticed that, when you get out of your vehicle and into your boat, your audio system does not compare? Richmond area’s Extreme Audio is here to help. There is no reason your music should suffer when you go out for a day on the water. In fact, we can make your marine Read More…
Window Tint Installation: 5 Reasons to Choose Richmond’s Extreme Audio
If you are like Extreme Audio, then you love the look of a vehicle with tinted windows. But in the course of driving around, you have probably seen some really bad window tint installations. Many of these jobs didn’t look that bad when it was first done, but over time, the tint faded, maybe turned Read More…
Automatic Car Starters: 5 Reasons to Choose Richmond’s Extreme Audio
Automatic car starters are a wonderful invention, and Extreme Audio has been specializing in them for well over a decade. Are you tired of going out to a cold vehicle? Who isn’t? How about scraping windows and clearing ice? Maybe sitting on a freezing cold seat? Nope, not for me. If the thought of going Read More…
Can Just Anyone Install A Remote Start System?
Vehicles today are surely not like vehicles of old. They have gotten very complex, and one of the most complex parts of a modern vehicle is the electrical system. We get the question from time to time at Extreme Audio about how safe is it for a person to try and install a remote start Read More…
Why Do We Ask To Have Your Vehicle For The Entire Day?
One of the things about Extreme Audio that separates us from the competition is we will ask you to drop your vehicle off for the day. You may ask yourself “I thought the installation only took two hours.” You may be right, the actual working time on your vehicle may only be two hours. Here Read More…
Extreme Audio Announces 4th Annual Coats for Kids Drive!
Now through December 31st, we will be collecting gently used or new coats at our store location at 7451 Sujen Ct. in Mechanicsville. What a lot of us take for granted these days is a warm house and a warm coat when we venture outside into the cold, while 1 in 6 children in the Read More…
Why Choose Extreme Audio For Your Remote Car Starter Install?
Here at Extreme Audio, we get asked a lot about what makes us different from all of the other shops in the Richmond market. When it comes to getting a remote car starter installed, the product you choose and the quality of the installation are very important. A properly designed and installed remote car starter Read More…
Extremely Motivated!
(The following is reprinted with permission from the May, 2014 issue of Mobile Electronics Magazine. The article was written by Michelle Fisher) You might think Mike Bartells would bask in the triumphs of his shop, Extreme Audio, after winning a major industry award, completing a full garage remodel and revamping the store’s website, but then Read More…
Why You Should Always Buy From an Authorized Retailer
There are times when a deal can be too good to be true. It’s a great price and it is in stock so the temptation is strong. But then you discover that the retailer you are considering is not an authorized retailer for that product or brand. “What difference does that make” you might ask? When Read More…
Why Choose a Specialty Retailer For Your Audio Enhancement
Specialty retailers typically offer the very best value available when you are making a purchase of a technical nature. But what is a specialty retailer? In most cases, a specialty retailer is a small, locally owned company that focuses on 1 or 2 things and does them extremely well. Extreme Audio is proud to be Read More…
Price vs. Value: Why Not Just Buy It From the Cheapest Place?
Any small local business hears this all the time: “I can get a better price online” or “The place across town has a better price.” We admit that we hear this from time to time ourselves. We have built our business on value, not on price. We believe that we offer the very best value Read More…
Installation: Your Most Important Consideration When Buying Car Audio
Today you have a lot of choices when buying electronics for your car. Online, warehouses, flea markets, and of course, specialty retailers like us. There is a lot of discussion about which brand is best. Truth is, there are a lot of quality brands available. We choose ours through a rigorous process of testing and, Read More…
What Does It Mean To Be A Retailer Of the Year
2013 was a big year for us at Extreme Audio. We completed a floor to ceiling remodel of our installation facility. We expanded into new product categories and we invested in high-end fabrication training for our entire staff. But nothing could have prepared us for what happened ing August. We were absolutely shocked when we Read More…
Golf Cart Audio “Upgrade” Features Over 3000 Watts of Power
At Extreme Audio, we’ve always wanted a way to demo a full-blown Wakeboarding Boat stereo system, but didn’t have the boat to do so. We decided to do the next best thing and built an insane EZ GO golf cart! This thing is the real deal, and shows off some of the custom fiberglass work Read More…
Richmond Facebook Fan Wins A Free Remote Car Starter
Extreme Audio recently ran a promotion on Facebook giving away a FREE Remote Car Starter to a lucky fan! Our Facebook fans shared our post about the upcoming snow on their pages, and that got them entered to win a Remote Car Starter up to a $500 value! The lucky winner this time was Rachael Read More…
Extreme Audio Named Mobile Electronics Retailer of the Year
For Immediate Release Extreme Audio Receives Industry’s Top Honors Customization specialists take home awards for its retail location September 26, 2013 – Mechanicsville, VA. – Extreme Audio, premier vehicle entertainment personalization specialist located in Mechanicsville, Va., received the Retailer of the Year award last month at the Mobile Electronics Industry Awards. While this is the Read More…
What Makes a Great Tint Job?
If you’ve spent any time looking around for window tint in the Richmond area or online, you’ve likely read a bunch of times how great each place’s tint is. If you’ve gone so far as to call or email a couple of them, you’ve probably gotten quotes everywhere from $150 on up to $600 for your 4 Read More…
Top 50 Mobile Electronics Retailer – Extreme Audio
Extreme Audio is proud to announce that we were selected as one of the 2010/2011 Top 50 Mobile Electronics Retailers in the U.S. by Mobile Electronics Magazine! We would like to thank all the people in our industry for the faith they have in us! Come see what sets us apart from the rest of Read More…
Extreme Audio Announces 3rd Annual Coats for Kids Drive!
Now through December 31st, we will be collecting gently used or new coats at our store location at 7451 Sujen Ct. in Mechanicsville. What a lot of us take for granted these days is a warm house and a warm coat when we venture outside into the cold, while 1 in 6 children in the Read More…
Extreme Audio Is Happy To Announce Our 2nd Coats For Kids Drive!
Now through December 31st, we will be collecting gently used or new coats at our store location at 7451 Sujen Ct. in Mechanicsville. What a lot of us take for granted these days is a warm house and a warm coat when we venture outside into the cold, while 1 in 6 children in the Read More…
Announcing Our 1st Ever Coats For Kids Drive
Now through December 31st, we will be collecting gently used or new coats at our store location at 7451 Sujen Ct. in Mechanicsville. What a lot of us take for granted these days is a warm house and a warm coat when we venture outside into the cold, while 1 in 6 children in the Read More…
Remote Start Info
During the cold months of the year, we could practically change our name to Extreme Car Starters, Inc. It seems like every day we have at least 2 or 3 vehicles in the install bay getting a remote start installed! What does this mean for you? It means we know remote start! Installing an automatic Read More…