name your five top a/s brands.
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Topic: name your five top a/s brands.
Posted By: dswift
Subject: name your five top a/s brands.
Date Posted: June 05, 2007 at 4:07 PM
Seeing what peoples like.
name your top five brands.
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"dont ground out!"
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Posted By: KarTuneMan
Date Posted: June 05, 2007 at 4:10 PM
Astroflex. Thats all !
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Posted By: dswift
Date Posted: June 05, 2007 at 5:42 PM
Compustar for me.
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"dont ground out!"
Posted By: enice
Date Posted: June 05, 2007 at 5:59 PM
Viper 5900...
Posted By: altytruck
Date Posted: June 05, 2007 at 10:34 PM
DEI period......
Posted By: xtremej
Date Posted: June 06, 2007 at 8:35 AM
Posted By: peterubers
Date Posted: June 06, 2007 at 11:16 AM
Ultrastart for ease of install, Compustar for features/range/technology
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The search function is your friend.
Posted By: customak47
Date Posted: June 06, 2007 at 3:30 PM
If ultrastart goes out of business, so will I...
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My rifle is my friend...
Posted By: rudydapimp
Date Posted: June 06, 2007 at 3:37 PM
i sell DEI, but love installing astro and compustar.
Posted By: project_86
Date Posted: June 06, 2007 at 3:56 PM
for ease of install compustar nu start artic start lol well all those are the same but i really like them for flexability with diesels or gas, and between the brands another choice would have to be autostart, really reliable and they usually have wicked reps too.
Posted By: 1456wires
Date Posted: June 07, 2007 at 7:45 AM
ultra start or compustar
at least until DEI buys them too and screw them up
Posted By: xtremej
Date Posted: June 07, 2007 at 7:45 AM
I should have mentioned ultra start they are breeze to install , just a nightmare to get. We just had another distributor quit carrying them,
Posted By: dswift
Date Posted: June 08, 2007 at 5:31 PM
ZANG ------------- "dont ground out!"
Posted By: Evolution-UK
Date Posted: June 09, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Clifford
Viper
Hornet
Toad
Sterling
Based in the uk so we dont get ultrastart or compustar over here
Posted By: KarTuneMan
Date Posted: June 09, 2007 at 8:43 PM
1456wires wrote:
ultra start or compustar
at least until DEI buys them too and screw them up
Thats a good one. The new Astrostart units are shipping with DEI shock sensors........  -------------
Posted By: CutDog504
Date Posted: June 09, 2007 at 10:18 PM
bulldog
crimestopper
k-9
pyramid
nitro
black widow
Just kidding! I prefer Autopage, prestige, or DEI.
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: June 10, 2007 at 8:02 AM
Wish we had a choice, here it's DEI Viper or DEI Clifford!
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: June 10, 2007 at 8:04 AM
Specifically to Evolution, every unit you mentioned is to my knowledge from the same factory!!
Posted By: Evolution-UK
Date Posted: June 10, 2007 at 8:35 AM
howie ll wrote:
Specifically to Evolution, every unit you mentioned is to my knowledge from the same factory!!
Almost.....
The DEI products come from one factory and the Toad/Sterling products are built by LiteOn, in another. What other alternative do you have though? Cobra/Gemini/Gamma/Scorpion are all italian built and they all use the same components/manufacturers. That simply means that when one gets a fault, they all do.
Posted By: green6767
Date Posted: June 10, 2007 at 8:51 AM
AstroStart
AutoStart
UltraStart
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Shaun, we are the same height, that is neat!
12V Installation Technician for Honda, Dodge, Chrysler, Toyota and Jeep.
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: June 10, 2007 at 12:40 PM
To evolution, I thought DEI products were also made by Liteon, although Epsom denies it. You didn't mention the Italians originally but I must take exception to "same components, same mistakes" remember the fiasco about 7 years ago with Laserline U/sonics? the others didn't have that problem, also as a no-nonsense basic bullet-proof alarm I couldn't recomend Cobra 3193 more highly. I alsways try and push it over the Arrow Valthough the Viper 1000/2 is quite good.
Posted By: Evolution-UK
Date Posted: June 12, 2007 at 4:42 PM
No mate, The DEI products are made by totally different manufacturers.
If youve been in the business for a while you may remember the cobra remote problems a few years ago. The same problem was evident in the Scorpion range as well. Cobra 832 then 6422 were piles of garbage as were the Scorpion 1218t2's. The best, basic, no-nonsense, problem free system is the Hornet 742tu. Great range, good upgrade potential and problem free (for the last 2 years).
Personally i wouldn't touch the Italian stuff with a barge pole. Been there done that and wouldnt do it again.
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: June 12, 2007 at 5:15 PM
T evolution we are disagreeing about the tgrivia when we agree in principle. I originally had to fit current Cobra product because one of the shops I contract to had a Cobra account. Even then I only rate the current 3193 and I think the Viper 1000 is a better alarm. N.B. I've been using Clifford since Ace, Eagle I days and I still think their product then was more robust than now. The 650 Mk II is good but I've been asking for this spec since the 650 came out! as in give us a 950 with only a prox please and less sensitive hood/door boot contacts. As for using the bitwriter on DEI and Windows on C,liffnet Wiz, no coment. By the way lets call a truc eon this, I'm based N.W. london, where you? We might well have crossed paths. Regards.
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