Is auto zones gold plated spade and ring terminals actually gold plated and halfway decent.

 

Anyone ever mess with these.

 

working in the car audio business, I see alot of gimmics. One of them is gold plating. Think about it, you are running from lead (battery) to gold plating to copper wire to gold plating to solder (inside amp) back to copper and on and on. Gold plating is for cosmetics. Don't spend a fortune on it.