dei sold

The problems currently for every aftermarket product be it security, audio or Bluetooth kits are: a) The recession, buying power or lack of. b) The amount of loading of extras by the factory. Mits Lancer over here, climate air, 7" touch screen with Nav, hard drive storage, cruise etc. Ford Focus, pitched against the 1 Series BMW, Ford is pitching it against the Golf/Rabbit/Vento as a level above, all the above as standard plus an R/S option with keyless go, all OEM. 10 years ago all I was doing were Fords,VW/Audi and BMW, now I never see them. what happens in 5-10 years time (think 99 Civics) when the kids get them? We will never see them for extras.

Maybe we can start outfit Mr. Branson's new fleet of space craft.

Most of our customers were initaly impressed with all the toys in new car, but then they find out what the salesman promised, the service manger can't deliver.  I doubt OE equipment will last ten years, haven't in the pass.  We were constantly getting calls for repair on Porche/BMW factory navs go down.  When was the last time you saw a GM deck keep its number past the first month.

So true but unfortunately these days the marketing is such that the ORIGINAL owners will go back to the dealer, product mystique, extended warrantees etc. My friend owned a then successful car audio shop, had the high end audio/nav system in a Cayenne, it failed dealer exchange, they cracked the trim surround. We hadn't earlier when we installed a BT kit.

One more comment, 5 years ago, Clifford had a company owned UK site, it supplied the rest of Europe and the middle east. There were repair people and 3 techies constantly on site. They were the biggest selling alarm product in the UK, Germany, Holland and Israel. Then along came DEI with product, programming and IMO quality dilution. They are now simply a section of a UK equivalent to Scosche, 1 techie if you can ever reach him, not enough products reach here and last month for the first time ever they were advertising for dealers. What a change, 10 years ago they were turning people away after auditing the installation workshops and us having to go on courses.

t&t tech wrote: DEI going bankrupt. That's really surprising. Their name is so large.

They are not filing bankruptcy, fyi. Simply sold to private holding company.

My bad.commit your way to jehovah and he will act in your behalf. psalms 37:5

Except I believe DEI has been in chapter 11. By the way Ispker is so right, that Porsche PCM as they called it was always on the blink, bloody Blaupunkt rubbish.