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Hymer

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Posted: July 28, 2007 at 1:01 PM / IP Logged

Hey guys, I'm at a new shop now and we are thinking of going with compustar as our main line and Astro as a secondary... are they any good, what should I watch out for... how is their support.. any info will be appreciated

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Posted: July 28, 2007 at 8:23 PM / IP Logged

Hymer.... I also have the Astro/DEI blues. compustars anything to watch out for? -- posted image.

swerks

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Posted: July 29, 2007 at 11:46 AM / IP Logged

My experience is tat computsar is very unreliable the main problem being that it is possible to enter programming via the remote, when you have a button happy customer who screws with things it is possible to knock the programming of the rs out. aside from that they areent bad also some models dont like coil on plug tach sensing. as for astrostart it is hands nown the finest remote starter that money can buy! they bare built with the finest components an 3 layer circut boards giving the unparreleled cuurent carrying capabilities. the only con is $$ they are more expensive than cs but by far the most reliable

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Posted: July 29, 2007 at 10:31 PM / IP Logged

The "button happy customer" needs to be educated by a "profesional" customer service rep (salesman) or an installer. This is not a problem with the compustar product....it's a problem with the joint that did the sale/install. not making the customer aware of what the unit is possible of doing.

AND SWERKS.....I like you buddy. compustars anything to watch out for? -- posted image. I have lived and breathed Astro for 8 years now, and agree 1000% on it being the best. You pay for what you get! Not too many posts here with guys asking silly questions about the product. ( and I know.... it's not mainstream......YET) DEI will be good for sumthin in the Astro world.......like advertising...maybe? The only product designed, built, and tested (brutally) waaaaaay up there in the great white north, where it's REAL cold for a REAL long time.

I have an old 2100 series board, no box around it. It's next to a Compustar, and a DEI board. No comparison. Even an un educated customer can see, and feel the differance. A great sales technique.

Thats all for now.....

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Posted: July 30, 2007 at 9:02 AM / IP Logged

This is our 1 st year with compustar pro. The install manuals suck, no nice way to put. Tech support is quick and knowledgable and the product is awesome, tons of features. Easy programming via op500 is cool also. Being upgradeable has proven to be more of selling feature than I thought to. I agree on getting p.o.s. is a struggle, brochures and some banners are all we have gotten so far. Button pushers are prevelant with whatever line you carry, the more you educate the less problems you'll have. You guys going direct or through a dist.?

swerks

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Posted: July 30, 2007 at 12:31 PM / IP Logged

Yes ythe button happy customer should be educated by sales staff but in the busy season when there are 15-20 cars in the shop that day this rarley happens. it aseems to me the manufacturer could easily prevent this with a slight design change thus eliminating this problem from possibly occuring

Steve Sverdahl

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Posted: July 30, 2007 at 1:16 PM / IP Logged

My only experience with Compustar was a bad one. The brain was huge and it was overly complicated to program the remote to the brain.

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Posted: July 30, 2007 at 1:37 PM / IP Logged

stratorider wrote:

My only experience with Compustar was a bad one. The brain was huge and it was overly complicated to program the remote to the brain.

Complicated to program the remote? Key on and off 5 times...hit lock button. Doesn't sound too bad to me. If its a Spread Spectrum system....key on and off 5 times...put battery in remote.

The brain is a little bigger than other companies that have internal relays, but they are not that big.

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Posted: July 30, 2007 at 5:02 PM / IP Logged

swerks wrote:

They actually did fix this issue. If you ever used a pro you would know this. The typical 20 customers a day in winter are your customers who hasn't used their autostarts all summer long and are probrably in valet mode, Lock + trunk release. Therefore Firstech is using the same programming for some of the non pro brains. like the cm4200. That mean to enter valet mode you will need the key in the igniton and on to the ON postion. That will knock out alot of valet mode calls for the future.

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