Blaupunkt Issues

[Brett Dikeman]

At 11:17 PM +0200 10/13/04, Gerard wrote:
>No warranty on this one. I bought it many years ago, never used and 
>always stored it safe ready for the day I install it into my 200 
>along with the Toronto headunit. Then the Toronto was stollen. :P 
>Someone bought it from me 2 weeks ago, but he's now all the way on 
>the other side of the country.
>
>Very strange to hear that it has jammed up just after 1 week of use, 
>considering it has never been in operation and was 100% well stored.
>
>Oh well, we'll see what happens.

I bought a Blaupunkt CD player, highly rated (hah) and with excellent 
specs (I was most interested in the FM tuner and CD S/N ratios) from 
Crutchfield.  After MONTHS of struggling with issues with integrating 
it with the Bose system and what I thought were problems with the 
Soundgate adapter, the CD mechanism jammed.

Taking the unit apart, what do I discover?  The main power capacitors 
in back had leaked electrolyte all over the PCB.

The thing was built like a cheap tonka toy, stuck out about a half 
inch from the dash, had a lousy display and an annoying user 
interface.

In case you haven't figured it out, I will never buy another 
Blaupunkt product again, nor will I deal with Crutchfield again. 
Their answer was "sorry, no returns, call Blaupunkt".  Yeah, that's 
customer service.  Too bad I didn't live in MA at the time, or I 
would have hauled them to small claims court under the implied 
merchantability regs (under which it is both the vendor's and 
manufacturer's responsibility).

Brett
PS:what's with the subject change?  Now we have two threads and the 
archives will be all messed up...please don't do that :-)
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