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Originally Posted by Telenator
Seriously, you could sell your guitar and add that to the amount of money you would spend on a new set of pickups and just buy a better guitar that would come with better pickups to boot! You'd get your pickup upgrade and a guitar upgrade at the same time for about the same price.
Putting new p'ups in a Squier is kinda like putting low profile wheels and tire on Geo Metro. I suppose you could do it, but why?
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I see your point, but would beg to differ: the workmanship on a (good) Squier is very good and as a result they play very well. Squiers vary wildly in all aspects of quality- the pups, pots and switches are however very cheap in these instruments. Though that doesn't mean SOME people don't like SOME of the pickups...
Rewiring mine with nice smooth Fender USA pots and switch made it quieter and 'feel' a whole lot better.
I also changed the pups to Texas Specials, which are fairly unsubtle, but I like the sound they make.
Guitar/car comparisons are always going to be a bit silly, but I'd say it would be more like pulling the carb off a Geo Metro and filing smooth all the crappy swarfy bits that came like that from the factory so it gasses better.