experience with Autostart product?

to all those faithful Autostart installers out there...has anybody noticed a large increase in the amount of problems your having with Autostart products this season?  We've used AS religiously for a very long time now, with excellent luck.  This year, they've changed a bunch of things around (new models, FM, etc), and it seems we have nothing but problems.

We've had more than our fair share of 6000/6010TW/s "locking up" and not programming, units with between one and ALL outputs dead out of the box.  Units with no range.  Units that won't see tach on ANY vehicle (or our test bench).  Units that when plugged in for the first time engage the heater and starter and won't let go. recall after recall.  And thats jus t in the last few weeks (and I'm NOT kidding guys)....

We're seriously debating on jumping ship...but not sure where to go from here.  Any input from other shops out there?  what has your autostart experience been like this season?  am I the only sorry bloke that is having a helluva time with this brand this year?  Its not that I don't like the product...if it works out of the box, it works extremely well and customers are happy.  Its just the darned proliferation of BUNK UNITS thats driving me crazy....

???

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This year I have sent back so many autostarts that I have lost track.   AS6000TW, AS6060TW,  first few I got in this year park light stayed engaged on all them. I think I had 6 in Total.  They sent me some new ones theses ones like to leave the igniton on and the vehicle running.

AS2500TW, AS2560TW no range, no outputs right out of the box.  Plug them in and they engage the starter or no ACC out.  One 2560 I pluged in just started smokeing.

So they ship me AS6010TW and AS6070TW.  Land at my store 2 days later please send them all back along with your AS2510TW and AS2570TWs as well.   NICE

AS6205SH and AS6265SH where would you like to start.  Aux harness no door locks no trunk no groundout when running.

And I get a email today saying to hold on to all my AS1725SH and AS171785SH till further notice.

Ya, sure, YOUR shop has no problems, but our shop is one of the first ones to install the new ultrastarts. They came out with passlock modules, 6 button remotes with sliding door buttons, door lock data modules, and alldata type modules. They all came back... ALL of them.  And they are still having issues with starters.

Oh ya, and we can't use any chdlpk modules wih ultrastarts because there is too much feed-back on the lock outputs which is causing issues.

They're not so great.

Accually, the car finder on the new two way models only works in vibrate mode. So, that doesn't really work either. LOL

but I was asking about bad luck with autostart      he he.  just wanted to verify  that we're not the only poor shop to be dealing with dead and crappy units from Autostart all the time.  I've gotten conflicting stories from my two distributors...one says they're getting returns and people jumping ship all the time, the other claims they have had next to nil...not sure who to believe.

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