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First Off, let me say that I do not wish to turn this into a "bashing" or "flaming" thread with every post being "they suck" or something short and stupid like that.
This is from recent personal experience with them. I've seen good work and service from them, and bad.
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As some of you may know, I just got a job as a tech at West Houston VW. We got in a Jetta a few days ago with damage to it's A/C system. Turns out this car was shipped to us direct from Mobile One (car audio place) due to their fug-up. Seems they'd been trying to mount a power inverter to the bottom of the dash and had drilled 3 holes into the Evaporator. This of course bled all the R134 from the system and killed it. So we took to entire dash apart and replaced the A/C unit. In doing so I noticed a few other things. They'd gotten power from a splice off the main fuse block power lead instead of from the battery. This 1) gives less power to the stereo, 2) less power to the car's systems, and 3) could cut power to the car's systems and cause catastrophic failure. Other thing: they ran power lines with RCA lines and next to stock wiring. Not only is this bad for signal, but it could affect the car's computer and sensors with RFI to their wiring.
But they're trying to make it right and apparently these issues are to be addressed. I just wanted to post some things to watch out for, not to start bashing.
This is from recent personal experience with them. I've seen good work and service from them, and bad.
Ok.
As some of you may know, I just got a job as a tech at West Houston VW. We got in a Jetta a few days ago with damage to it's A/C system. Turns out this car was shipped to us direct from Mobile One (car audio place) due to their fug-up. Seems they'd been trying to mount a power inverter to the bottom of the dash and had drilled 3 holes into the Evaporator. This of course bled all the R134 from the system and killed it. So we took to entire dash apart and replaced the A/C unit. In doing so I noticed a few other things. They'd gotten power from a splice off the main fuse block power lead instead of from the battery. This 1) gives less power to the stereo, 2) less power to the car's systems, and 3) could cut power to the car's systems and cause catastrophic failure. Other thing: they ran power lines with RCA lines and next to stock wiring. Not only is this bad for signal, but it could affect the car's computer and sensors with RFI to their wiring.
But they're trying to make it right and apparently these issues are to be addressed. I just wanted to post some things to watch out for, not to start bashing.
