Blaupunkt Issues
Brett Dikeman
brett at cloud9.net
Thu Oct 14 21:36:42 EDT 2004
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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