Other Crimestopper installers / dealers
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Printed Date: April 28, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Topic: Other Crimestopper installers / dealers
Posted By: lazyike
Subject: Other Crimestopper installers / dealers
Date Posted: January 22, 2005 at 1:49 AM
I was wondering how this product is doing for you. I am a small crimestopper dealer, installing for a local car company and to local people by word of mouth. I have been a dealer for 3 years now and only do about 6 a year. I install usually only the rs999tw-1 because of the pageback feature and the range ( its awsome)... but I have been having many returns. almost all of the transmitters have hade to be returned to crimestopper because it would not come out of sleep mode ( crimestopper acknoledged this problem. thats way the new remote now) I am also going to be sending my second unit back due to a bad brain. All in all i am having about a 90% return rate on at least some part of the starter system. It is getting very frustrating and cuts into my profits. I am thinking about taking on a new product but I do not know who to go with. There is another local company installing dei products and personaly I think they are over priced and have cheep looking remotes. Has anyone else having the same problems? or suggestions? Mike
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Posted By: prdjr165
Date Posted: January 22, 2005 at 7:48 AM
I have been installing Crimestopper units for 3 years also,I am not a dealer,I just install out of my garage by word of mouth also.I only installed one RS999tw and the 2way remote never worked from day one,I sent it back and they sent a new one which has worked fine.I think Crimestopper is one of the best products out there,they have a lifetime warranty and their tech support is awsome!I have installed some scytec units lately because people seem to want that style of pager,they also have a lifetime warranty.
Posted By: Haku
Date Posted: January 22, 2005 at 9:31 AM
I have installed many of the them-- RS900, RS901, RS800, RS830, RS999FM, RS999TW + A few Alarm/remote starts.. and have never had one failure. (Dropped remotes, customer intervention not included). I have had a few bad bypass modules, and of course a few installation errors, but have never had a bad unit. Only problem with Crimestopper is its more expensive to buy direct from them.... even when buying a case of 24 at a time. I end up buying from a secondary source and I save 5-10 bucks per unit.
Hak
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Hak
Siemens Autostart
Posted By: lazyike
Date Posted: January 23, 2005 at 7:32 PM
so am I the only one getting bad units from them?
Posted By: Haku
Date Posted: January 23, 2005 at 7:35 PM
Dont play the lottery :)
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Hak
Siemens Autostart
Posted By: brcidd
Date Posted: January 24, 2005 at 1:19 PM
Have any of you Crimestopper fans ever used the GM-U7- I bought two and have yet to try them- They sound too good to be true- I am going to install one this week on a 2004 Silverado- I can't find any one who has used them yet- maybe because they are so new...........
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Brcidd - Engineer That Does Remote Starter Installs on the side.
Posted By: Haku
Date Posted: January 24, 2005 at 6:15 PM
Yes I have used them, I now use Trilogix's GMDL-BP which is the same thing, only cheaper....
And yes they are great!! I can do a remote start with keyless entry on a 2003+ GM fullsize truck or suv in 1.25hrs, from start to finish, including soldering every wire, and making it look like factory wiring..
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Hak
Siemens Autostart
Posted By: solartech
Date Posted: January 24, 2005 at 9:04 PM
I have had mixed results with crime stopper. The rs900 is ann ecellent unit and the U7 is too good to be true! But I have had bad luck with all of the two way remote starters and alarms. They work good at first but the remotes are way too delecate. Almost every one I sold had some kinda problem with the remote. For two way system I strongly recomed Firstech products,The Compustar. As for the crime stopper rs 810 the tach will only work in certin vehicals usualy it will over crank on GM cars, and the tachless feature works poorly. I tryed 25 of these and was dissaponted compaired to thr great rs900, which is only $10 more per unit.
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Solartech Window Tinting & Electronics Inc.
Posted By: hafr
Date Posted: January 24, 2005 at 10:15 PM
I also use crimestopper product and I have had great luck with the rs900 series but every combo unit (cs2011) goes bad, thank goodness for lifetime warranty and a local distributor for swaps. The first genneration of gmu-7 really screwed me up with trailblazerslast year but the new software works great. i also use the jdpk3 module for the jeeps but have had 2 go bad this week in 2002 cherokees. I have to service them this week. all and all crimestopper is pretty reliable. the price is right as well, compared to DEI or Codealarm. ------------- Rich Hawthorne
Hands-Free installations
"don't talk with your hands full"
516-no-hands
Posted By: CBill
Date Posted: January 25, 2005 at 7:55 AM
I am trying out this M3700 from Megatronix Alarm and it seem like a pretty stable and good system.. I just installed it so I can't really comment on it other than the distance of that remote quite far at least a good 1/4 mile away is the farest I tested so far ... I might post a small review after I try it for a week or so .. Bill
Posted By: lazyike
Date Posted: January 28, 2005 at 6:40 PM
Thanks everyone who replied... I just got off the phone with the Howard Miller from crimestopper, he is going to make it right with my company. Good thing because I was looking into ather suppliers. The gmu-7 is a awsome unit It would be nice to see all bypass units done like this. It also sounds like the new rs-999 fm2 I think is what they are going to call it will be out in March ( this is the lcd version of the tw-1). It also sounds like they are going to chage the 900 unit so the atenna transciver will be incorperated into the brain. Mike
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